New Year's Resolutions

     A new year is finally here! And with it comes new opportunities, challenges, and joys. I cannot help but reflect over last year, and remember all the good and bad. The terribly bipolar weather of Illinois, the recession, the unjust illegal immigration law of Arizona, and of course, the immense amounts of work in which my teachers took particular joy in watching their students suffer. All that, though, takes a back-seat to the amazing memories of my family, friends, Icy Sixteen birthday party, being a teenager, high-school, and most importantly, growing mentally and expanding my knowledge in writing and of different people and cultures. It is incredible how much a person can grow in just 365 days, but I sure grew plenty. Not only in knowledge but height... I'm finally five feet!

     Of course, in redundant tradition and in joyful hope, I have decided upon three things in which this year I will conquer and rise against. First, I plan to improve myself in what is my most cherished and held belief: the liberation of humanity from the clawing grasp of modern society and white European supremest views enforced for hundreds of years by writing and education. I plan to study about other cultures, in particular Africans and Asians. My second resolution is to gain more self-confidence. I would say I am pretty skinny and I guess attractive, but myself being of Spanish heritage, the usual insecurities which come from having curly hair and darker skin are deeply ingrained into my core. Finally, I plan to do better in chemistry. I love science, yet chemistry tends to be giving me a few problems.
     Overall 2010 was awesome, and since it's the first day of the new year, that old saying comes to haunt the new day: out with the old, and in with the new. I hope 2011 will be kick-butt!