I tried smoking weed for the first time with Hayato and his friend Kate winter of freshman year too... I guess I was just ready to try it all then. I didnt really feel it the first time, but the second time... fell in love and have been ever since. Ha. It's weird to think that a good majority of my friends were always older than me in high school- Hayato and Kate being 16 when we were still 14. They didn't even really "peer pressure" us, I just really wanted to try it. My sophmore year was pretty bland but good at the same time, and it's really weird looking back and seeing how I never stayed the same appearance and style wise for more than a year. My sophmore year I was still pretty unsure of who I really was, but definitely started listening to a lot of different types of music like indie, electronica, experimental, that fit my unique personality well. My junior year was such a great fucking year. Almost as good as senior year, maybe even a little better to be honest. This was the year I met my really great girl friends til this day Alex, Amy, Kelly, and Angelica. Alex was in my math class my sophomore year when she was a junior, but and we really started hanging out with them a lot towards the end of sophomore year and had some great times. One of my best guy friends as well, James, was in my math class my junior year and we quickly became really close. He was so funny and wild, and didnt really give a fuck. I'd easily say he was the one that got me into smoking so much fucking weed, all the time. I really dont even care if we were all stoners because it was one of the funnest years ever so far. Such great memories will all of these new friends, and it's great that we're still so close today.
My senior year came so fast, and after facing the fact that I had to apply to colleges and shit.. I was freaking out. I tried the hardest I could my junior year, well I did all 3 years up until then, and my 3.5 gpa showed it. Senior year I got really close with my current best friends Rachel and Lee as well, and they made the whole year a great time for me, there really was never a dull moment, and we'd always laugh at stupid shit and were never afraid to be goofy as fuck. Senior year was when I feel like I really found out who I was, and embraced it. I knew I was a little different from the other typical preppy girls at my school but I loved it. And the different, interesting music I'd listen to.. Lee and Rachel loved and listened to the same kind of stuff. Getting senior lunch privileges was always a nice little treat in the middle of the day, a way to avoid DY for 30 minutes, a place we started to dread being at. We just couldn't wait to graduate. Senior Prom was so epic, and getting to party at our friend Kyle's house with his mom not home was such a good time. It was all of my closest friends together for a wild night, and I had so much fun and love them all alot. After working at the Inaho, a japanese restaurant for the whole school year on weekends, it was nice to have a little break from it with prom and graduation. Graduation was one of the proudest days of my life, and I'll never forget the look on my mom's face when she came up to me and my sister after the ceremony. I've never seen her so proud before, and even though she was balling she had this huge smile spread across her face and couldn't stop saying how long she waited for this day and it was finally here. Both of my parents being from Brazil never went to college or anything, so this was a pretty big deal. I cried a lot that day but I was so happy to be done with high school and celebrate a new chapter of my life and a fresh start.
The summer before freshman year at UMASS was wild, of course. A lot of day drinking on the beach, summer jams, working, and just enjoying life. I knew that going to college was going to be a big step, but I never felt more ready to prove to myself I could do it, and my mom too. Turning 18 in July was another great thing too, since I was finally legal HELL YEAH. It was a sick feeling, and I was so ready to be taken a little bit more seriously I guess. Even though I'm still not that independent, here at Umass I feel like I definitely am. Having to do all of my work on my own time and get things done is something I always did in high school, but living here made it so different- doing whatever I could whenever I wanted to. First semester went really good, and it fucking flew by just like this semester is too, I've loved most of my classes so far and love how I'm learning new things everyday. I have such a huge thirst for knowledge, and being here is wonderful and I'm one one those people that takes nothing for granted and cherish and thank god (or some person) for giving me the chance to go to college, something my parents never got to do. I have endless determination to do the best I can here at Umass for the next 3 years to come, and although I love to let loose and get pretty fucking drunk and wild on the weekends, it keeps me sane. That's all I really have to say for now, but that's most of my life in a nutshell.
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