its a new year!
and this one promises to be the "newest" one yet.

from graduation in may, which brings on a whole new way of living completely (and a whole new list of challenges).
to the beginning of a new soccer season!
to the beginning of our new President's term.

i am so exciting to be going to college next year. but i cannot tell you how nervous i am too!
every once in a while i get in these moods where i have no desire to leave my comfortable bed and my comfortable life. after 17 years, i have finally settled in here. and just as i got comfortable, its time to move on.

i cannot wait to be comfortable again. comfortable and safe. and in my place.

last week, i got the opportunity to go to the inauguration of our 44th President.
it was a crazy week, but well worth the endless lines and hours of waiting.
i got to see some of my favorite people again!
and i witnessed history.
i enjoyed it so much but was sad to see the way Americans treat fellow Americans during a time where we are supposed to "join as one".
as the current President-George W. Bush walked out of the Capital, a majority of the people I was standing around began to "boo" and "yell". Im not going to point out all of the wrong those people did. I was just ashamed. I am a 17 year old girl, and at the moment, I felt that maybe I was more qualified to vote for the President of the United States than the ignorant (excuse my name calling) people who "booed" a man who has led our country through some of the hardest and darkest times we have faced. We are all Americans. Even the men who you think may have let you down as a President, Vice-President, governor, teacher, preacher, father, mother, and friend.
Other than that, I cannot complain. Well, except the rude people at the inauguration who thought they were the only people there. Ha.

I hope everyone holds January 20th, 2009, as a day of utmost importance and will remember how great a day it was for not only our country, as a whole, but for the world.

con amore,
mk