Things to do before I go back to school.

2 more weeks.
Oh how the summer flew by.
I can finally get an amazing 2-week break from an exhausting, yet very memorable summer school experience.
2-weeks to prepare for what will be my last year in high school.
I am now a senior. Oh, how putting senior and I in the same sentence makes me feel entirely old.
People go on saying I look older than my age and that I act much older than I really am, now maybe oldness is really actually catching on to me...
Nonsense. Nonsense. It doesn't matter how people view me. I know perfectly well that I am still a teenager (17 years old to be precise) and I've still got a lot to learn and a heck of a lot more growing up to do.

Let's face it. I really am kind of stepping into the whole stereotypical adult world.
I am reading books on finances!
I am working on improving my social skills!
I am working on my career!
I am thinking about the type of men I want to marry!
Ohh dear.
I really am growing up...
But it's a little to early to be saying goodbye to my fun childhood and my fun teenage years. My senior year will definitely need all the fun that it can get. Fun. Fun. Write it again, missy. Fun.

Indeed.
I've been reading on saving, investing, and money and more money. I love Rich Dad's philosophy; I am not a fan of Poor Dad's mindset. I've got like $200 in cash. I feel so rich.

This summer has led me to realize that I am socially awkward. I don't know how to make eye contact, I'm not much of a public speaker, and I can barely hold up my end of a conversation. I am clearly working on it right now. I am rewiring my brain. The part of my brain that controls writing has been a little overworked these past years and I've been completely ignoring the part of my brain in charge of speech. And now that part of my brain is stagnant and needs to seriously work out and get back in shape.
I am working on pronunciation.
I am working on answering questions more clearly and quickly.
I am working on my public speaking skills (summer school has helped with this. 4 presentations among 2 classes).
I am working on being more open and direct through body language.
I am definitely working on my confidence.

Film Studies is currently my pick for my college major. This is the first time I've been so sure that film is something where I want to be. So, this is definitely something. I am still not sure what minor I'll have or whether or not I'll have a double major. I am just working my best to try and see if film production is for me by editing films, reading on screenwriting, and trying to make film a bigger part of my life.

I went to a cellphone store on Thursday and I saw the type of boy (or shall I say man) that I want to marry. And seriously, marriage is normally never on a teenager's mind - especially mine. So, this came to me as a shocker. Am I already thinking about marriage?? I still haven't been kissed and I am already thinking about the man I want to spend the rest of my life with? I know that it's completely ludicrous.

That just proves and concludes that.... I am indeed growing up.

It's that time of your life where you want to say... where the heck did my childhood go? I somehow have misplaced it or lost it. Can you help me find it?