the end!

this year i finished my freshman year in high school.

i spent a summer on the internet and in the mountains, competing in HSO and hiking with my mom respectively. i met my seven friends on my team, and we started talking on skype. they are my only friends except for katy, ally, allie, and mom.

mom and i hiked timpanogos mountain in seven hours and i got to see the whole valley. i left my name and the date on a metal wall in sharpie marker. the hike down was more strenuous than the hike up.

ally left for boarding school after they put her on suicide watch.

i started my sophomore year in high school. i started hanging out with ethan and his friends at lunch. i watched them do parkour out on the lawn. i got better at art.

i visited ally at her school and she started visiting on certain weekends.

in october mom left my stepdad. i moved to my dad's house and i've been living here since. i miss her.
 
i started doing worse in school because i got lazy and wasted time staying up late drawing or using the internet.

i turned sixteen about a month ago.

...i am actually kind of concerned for my memory because i'm having a hard time remembering specific things from the year. my brain sets things up in an oversimplified, color-coded timeline and sometimes i get things out of chronological order.