hi all

hey so im new to this "blogging" so bear with me!
so the holidays are finally over! so sad! i CANNOT belive its 2010! 2009 went by so fast for me! well i had a lot of good stuff happened to me this past year! hopefully 2010 can top it! in 2009 i got accepted into the high school i applied and wanted to get into! i was so happy! i spent most of my spring and summer training(swimming) because i had qualified for the 2009 deaflympics swim team to represent the usa in taiwan for the 21st deaflympics! boy was that a lifetime adventure i will never forget! my 800 freestyle relay team and i brought usa swim team home a BRONZE medal! we also broke the american record! that night, standing on the podium, i will never forget when the professor from Gaulldet(excuse me for my spelling) shook my hand and put the medal around my neck! boy it was heavy! then we had to turn and face the flags while they played Russia's national athem. yes russia won :( oh well. my goal for the trip was to have a lot of fun, make friends for a lifetime and i did and come back home with AT least ONE medal and i did! then i started high school 3 weeks late. oops!! oh well. that was a STRUGGLE! god this past fall was the worst fall ever but i stuck it out and got through it! i had so much work to make up and some of my teachers werent cooraperating with the fact that i missed 3 weeks of their classes and now they had to help me make it up. they didnt like that. whatever i stayed away from them now. they dont like me i dont like them because they think i am a super deaf kid who should the speical treatment. whatever! getting back in the pool was so hard! i got back in the pool 1 1/2 after i arrived back home and it wasnt so bad. i had one swim meet. i was right on my times. then sometime towards the end of october! i got the SWINE FLU! ugh. nasty lol i missed school for a week which was not good considering i missed the first 3 weeks! then it was super hard to get back into shape! i would come to practice like every other day or 3 times a week because either i had a lot of homework or i was tired and i couldnt do it. 3 weeks ago i had a swim meet in virgina and that was a wake up call for me because before taiwan i was one of the fastest girls on the team and at this meet the other girls who i used to be faster than were beating me! i was like whoo! ok time to get back into the pool and serious training! so ever since that meet ive been in the pool everyday! well except christmas and today! i have a meet sunday and im ready for it! lol! HAPPY NEW YEAR! please comment