Assignment Twenty-four – Jessica Ewing

Successes:
1) I wrote and completed my first poetry book!
2) Participated in the school's fall and winter plays and the musical (all of which were so much fun)
3) Honestly my greatest success was surviving all 5 AP classes I had to take this year, part of me genuinely didn't think it was possible
4) Learned how to play the ukulele

Failures:
1) Unfortunately, I was unable to stay out of drama
2) The entirely of the year in AP Physics - dear God, how am I so bad at physics
3) I allowed myself to get overwhelmed, particularly over the last month or so - I was so close to getting through all of junior without a full-on breakdown...yeah that didn't happen

Lessons Learned:
1) Sometimes you have to take a step back and focus on yourself, even when you want to help everyone around you
2) Sometimes you can't help everyone (that's a really difficult concept for me to grasp as someone who loves to help others)
3) Even if you work tirelessly at something, sometimes you fail, and that's okay, you're not superhuman

Summer Plans:
Honestly, I have no idea. I need to get a new job, and I know I'm going to the beach for a week mid-June. Other than that, my summer's going to be pretty free.

Senior Year:
For the love of all things good in this world and for the sake of my own mental health, I hope and pray there is no drama next year. The issues I had to deal with this year, particularly over the last 4 months or so have destroyed my mental health and I just want to have a good, happy, and healthy senior year. Is that too much to ask?

Also, I want to write a full novel. Odds are, it'll be a contemporary novel, as I don't have the time or resources to craft an entire fantasy world (though I'd LOVE to do that someday), but my mentoring project next year will allow me some actual time for writing, and I'm incredibly excited for that.