2012 was a year of big change for our family. We moved! We bought
a new home in San Ramon. It was very hard to say goodbye to the only
home I had known and all our friends there. But by the end of the
year I was glad we moved!
I turned 13 in April. Went to Boomers
with my friends. That was a lot of fun!
In school news, I finished
my 7th grade at Thornton. I had some really good times there
like going to Disneyland and Great America with the band, taking part
in the school play, being nominated for the US achievement academy
yearbook by Ms. Miller, attending the various school dances and so on.
Joined 8th grade at
Gale Ranch Middle School in fall. I was very nervous going to a new
school. But the new school with all its modern facilities, wonderful
teachers, and students helped me fit in really quickly. I made a lot
of new friends. I got much more self sufficient in managing my school work
and ended the first semester with a 4.0.
I spent two weeks of
my summer at Stanford doing the Creative Writing EPGY camp. That was
an amazing experience. My first time living away from home. That too in an actual college dorm.
Rest of the summer was spent in India. It was nice seeing my
extended family again. We did some small trips just by ourselves too,
to Kochi and Munnar.
The move also meant finding a new piano teacher. Ms. Nora is not as good as Ms. Sylvia but I continue my music education. I am pretty good at sight reading and playing any music on the piano. I still go to Julissa in Newark for singing classes. We put most of my other outside school classes on hold. But I did join Math Counts, Science Bowl, Chorus, and Debate after school clubs. I joined CJSF and really enjoyed volunteering both in and outside school.
Here are some pictures from 2012 –
January, February, March, my 13th Birthday pictures, pictures I took during my Disneyland trip, other April pictures, May, June, July, our trip to India, August, September, October, November and December. Also here are some really old pictures of Daddy & Mommy with friends.