New Year, New Quarter, New Classes, New, New, New!

I haven’t blogged for awhile, wow! Not since November! I guess I’ve been too busy to blog or I’ve been not busy at all and have had nothing to blog about.
We’re twelve days into the new year and I’m still filled with excitement about it being a new year filled with not yet discovered trips, classes, thoughts, feelings, and people. I did think of some new year’s resolutions, none of them explicitly including blogging, but one I can kind of turn on its side and make it related to blogging: becoming more confident and sure of myself. People who know me personally probably (maybe?) think of me as a confident person, but sometimes in my head I’m not as confident. Perhaps blogging more and writing about what I’m doing and thinking could help with connecting my “outside” confidence with my “inside-the-head” confidence. Of course the blogging, I believe, has to be coupled with talking face-to-face with more people. I can’t and don’t want to just sit and stare into my laptop screen and tell my secrets and whatever else to the world. Then I know I would become even less confident in talking f-2-f with others. Well, I’ll try this this year, blogging = becoming more confident. I don’t know how confident I am about that equation but we’ll see!

This new year also brings a new school quarter, new classes, and new projects! After the first week of the quarter, which just ended, I have finally figured out what classes I’m going to be taking for the rest of the quarter. I’ve ended up with French 5 and English 1A Honors. Yes, I know that’s only two classes but I also am… Foothill’s Women’s History Month Co-Chair, finishing my Girl Scout Gold Award project, working with a nonprofit called Youth Philanthropy Worldwide: Global Citizens to make a movie about their high school clubs, reactiviting the French club at Foothill, going to Japan in ONE week (for one week), and being a part of the Tech Challenge at the Tech Museum in San Jose. This whole list will all begin and finish between now and April! I’m jumpy, excited, and nervous just anticipating all of these things. So yes, I’ll be busy but I know I’ll find some time to blog about all of the amazing things I’m doing and being involved in.

Part of the English 1A Honors class just happens to be the Honors English 34 seminar (which will further be known as the ePortfolios part of English 1A Honors) that I took last Winter Quarter that started all my blogging craze. Since I have already done all the work from the Honors seminar Scott, my English 34 Honors seminar teacher and now my English 1A Honors teacher, asked me if I’d like to be the TA for the ePortfolios part of the class. I’m here to help my fellow students with figuring out the sometimes mysterious world of blogs and even more mysterious world of ePortfolios. Hopefully, I’ll be successful in helping everyone, I guess I’ll judge how much by how well everyone ends up understanding what ePortfolios and blogs are and how easily they create their own of each. I’m definitely looking forward to it.