2013 went by quite fast. It was a fun year. An year with lots of changes, fun with extended family, many trips, new friends, and new experiences.

I entered High School in 2013. It was both exciting and scary. I adjusted well to Dougherty Valley High School. Though I still miss Gale Ranch.
The last semester in Gale Ranch was a lot of fun. I went on a school trip to Philadelphia and Washington. D.C. Read about it here. There were multiple parties and ceremonies leading up to our Middle School graduation.
In summer I spent 3 weeks at UC Berkeley as part of the SIG program. That was an amazing experience.
In High School I continued doing Percussion in band. This meant playing in the Pep band at Football games. I practiced from summer and made it into the Junior Varsity Girls Basketball team. A lot of hard work but fun. I won first place in the Literature category for the Reflections program this year.

We went on quite a few trips in 2013. Started by flying to Orlando on New Year's day. Here is my report on that trip. During the Memorial Day break we drove down the coast to San Luis Obispo. Soon after school closed we went for a holiday in Greece and Turkey. Read all about that here. For Thanksgiving we spent a week at Palm Springs. We went to Tahoe twice in 2013.

This year we had many visitors too. Appachan and Ammachy spent the summer with us. For Christmas both Deepa chechy and Anu chechy came and spent some time with us.

I had to put a stop to most of my out of school classes because of my tight school schedule. But I did start guitar classes in summer. My interest in writing is still there. Here is a blog I started this summer. My new interest is cooking!

Here are some pictures from 2013 –

January, trip to Orlando, February, March, April, pictures I took during my Washington DC trip, May, June, our trip to Greece and Turkey, July, summer program in UC Berkeley, August, September, October, November , our vacation in Palm Springs, December and our Christmas break. Finally some pictures I enhanced!