Best Of...

With the end of the school year finally three days away, I want to share some of the bests of my freshman year. The year has been full of great things, but I am going to try to choose my favorite or best in each category!

Best Class: Although I loved all my classes this year, I think that my favorite class was English. I always looked forward to it, one reason being that I had the best English teacher that I have ever had. Along with improving my writing skills a lot, I got out of my comfort zone a lot. This class gave me a lot of confidence in myself and in my writing, and I am definitely sad to see this class go.

Best Teacher: This category is impossible to choose a best for. All of my teachers were wonderful this year, and I learned a lot from each and every one of them. I will always remember Mr. Jeffrey, Mr. Parker, Ms. Duis, Mr. Murphy, Ms. Payne, and Mr. Fairbanks. It is too hard for me to choose a best for this category More on teachers later!

Best Friend: Again, I am not going to choose a best friend. I have many, many friends, and many people who made my ninth grade year complete. Check my last post to see the blogs of all of my friends!

Best Coaches: I can't choose between my two coaches for the award of best coach. Charity and Amanda, you do not know how much you mean to me, and just how glad that I am that you are in my life. You have taught me so much, and not just gymnastics skills. Thank you so much for all of your support!

Best School-Related Memory: My best memory from school this year would have to be the AP study party. I had so much fun studying with my friends while we laughed and helped to get each other's minds of the big test. All of my study buddies and I sent the picture below to our AP teacher with the subject, "Are we going to pass????" and a caption of, "Look what you did to us!!!!" The responses that we got were terribly funny! He had many comments, ranging from French related answers to osmosis.

I'm sorry for posting it again, but it just fit so well! I am so glad that this picture will always remind me of one of my best memories!

Best Gym Memory: I think that this would have to be my meet in New Orleans. Click here for the link to that post! My teammates and I bonded a lot at this meet, and I got to know one of my younger teammates a lot better. Besides this, we had lots of fun wandering the city, stopping for a photo-op, and then laughing at the photos later!

One of the many pictures my team took in New Orleans!

Best Academic Achievement: I think that my best achievement for me academically was never having lower than 100% in my AP geography class. Since this is a college level class, this was a very big accomplishment for me!

Hardest Goodbye: Mr. Fairbanks, my orchestra teacher, will be leaving the Park City School District after this year. He made a decision to pursue his dreams to earn a PhD, so this summer he will be moving to London to attend the University of Cambridge. I will miss him a lot, but I wish him the best in his journey!

The end of the year is full of memories, goodbyes, and reflection. These are some of the best things for me this year, but I am very grateful for all of my experiences. I don't know how much I will be posting over the summer, but I will try to keep it up! Have a great summer everybody!!!

---Jamie---