goodbye 2010

so it's time to be cheesy and pour my heart out.

this year. a big clusterfuck.

to be thankful for:
-my experience in England.
-the ability to travel to Italy, France, Scotland and various parts of England.
-my unbelievable mother who supported me through this past year.
-my friends for supporting me/giving me some of the best memories of this year.
-my lovely grandparents who also supported me this year.
-the ability to criticize myself continuosly and realize my own mistakes and abilities.
-being rejected. you never realize how much you learn about your ability to cope without being rejected.
-the ability to cry.
-the ability to feel happiness.
-meeting my new friends all over the world who have become my family and the most caring friends i could ask for (ie: maria, maria, tat, vic, and emma).
-getting my Master's degree (and it being awarded with excellence)
-throwing myself into new situations that I would have never done in the past.
-building my own family. blood does not equal family.
-sticking up for myself more, and realizing that those who make you miserable have no place in your life.
-surviving on my own on a different continent.
-having the ability and the skill to be alone and not need something or someone to define me by.
-recognizing who i am and being happy about it. coming to terms that i am not abnormal.
-having an angel of a surgeon to repair my eye.
-meeting new friends.
-not focusing on other's opinions of me (although i still have a lot of work ahead of me on this)
-being vulnerable and letting people into my emotional relam and into my heart.