Genuinely Giancarlo

Several weeks ago as I was sitting at lunch with my friends, I asked them for an idea for a blog post. After a brief moment of consideration, one of them said "the importance of relationships in the developmental growth of students". My other friend summarized by saying simply, "the good, the bad, and the ugly of high school relationships". So here it is. To be clear: when I say "relationship" I mean to represent the situation in which two people have collectively and mutually decided to be "together" as a couple (as "boyfriend" and "girlfriend"), committing to love, support, and care for their partner. Obviously, different couples have different expectations and standards in their own relationships, but I just wanted to clear my own definition up first. Here's the thing: I've never had a problem with relationships in high school. I'm no idiot, and I understand that most of the relationships that people partici...

I usually hesitate to assign "favorite" or "best" or "happiest" labels to thing in my life because I am always unsure if there is simply something better in my life that I have failed to consider. But here, I break that trend. Because here, I say something with absolutely no doubt in my mind: 2015 was the best year of my life. And there are probably a lot of reasons for that. Maybe it was due to all of the friends I made this year. Maybe it was because I really enjoy high school. Maybe it was all caused by the new-found responsibilities and privileges I took up this year. In reality, it was probably a lot of things. But here, I won't talk about general classifications of memories. In this post, I'm talking about the things that happened to me or the things that I did last year that made it so great. January January 1: I went to a fun New Year's Eve party to ring in 2015, and I had a blast. I was surrounded by friends and I made a coupl...