Freshman Year

Hey guys! It's been a weird year for me. You all saw my growth from the beginning of the year to the end. If you remember, I started this blog as a school assignment. For my last blog assignment I am supposed to talk about my experience and growth through blogging so here we go.

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Where was I when I started my journey? I was literally no one. No one knew who I was or where I came from except for my ski team. It was weird to have such a small group of friends for me but it is where it is. I also was six months post op of my first ACL reconstruction and I had just started working out with my team again. I had a new coaching staff that I needed to get to know and I moved up a year in skiing. Overall it was a pretty rough start to the beginning of the year.

But that start pretty much resembled the entire year. So the question is, how did blogging help me grow? Well, I guess you can say blogging made me more mature. If you look at my posts from the beginning to the end, my topics have changed so much. I went from blogging about Halloween to blogging about staying positive after injury. Documenting my writing progress has really helped me to see just how much an individual grows in a year. In a way blogging has also helped me cope with tearing my ACL a second time. It may seem like the only thing I talk about here but shoutout to those other four kids on my team that just went through the same thing. It's a hard process that you have to deal with and this blog has helped me to stay motivated and get out of my previous lazy patterns. It's helped me come to where I am now.

Now I have a workout group that I started between five other girls and I all with the same injury. We go to the gym together to stay motivated and work through the difficulties of injury. I've been more responsible for myself and my actions, for example documenting everything active I do in a day so that if I start to have pain anywhere in my body my coaches and I can pin point exactly what caused it. I've taken my first AP exam and maintained good grades throughout the school year. I've been voted the sophomore representative, branching out and making more friends and acquaintances, And finally I've grown as a person throughout my experience. It might even be hard to say goodbye to blogging.

I would encourage anyone reading this to try blogging. Here's an article about how it can help grow your business for any of you older people. This whole journey started as an assignment and now here I am at the end of it. I don't know if I will continue blogging or not but if I do I'll keep you all posted. It's been a great experience and I hope all of you readers enjoyed watching my first year of high school. So I guess this is goodbye for now! Maybe I'll see you soon!