Genuinely Giancarlo

Yesterday, I had the incredible privilege of watching as my high school's football team took home the state championship trophy, capping off an incredible undefeated season.  And I couldn't be any happier. In all honesty, yesterday was one of the best days of my life. The excitement and hype lasted from when I got out of bed in the morning to when I collapsed into that same bed 19 hours later, exhausted but still exhilarated from the day's events. So allow me here to explain exactly what made yesterday so great. In order to understand some things, you'll need a little bit of background. I go to Bingham High School. Bingham has a long and fairly consistent story of success and triumph in most areas, but especially in football, and especially in the past few years. Since 2006, Bingham has won the state football championship six times, including yesterday (2006, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2016), which is quite an impressive record. Last year, Bingham was expected to ...

Yesterday, I turned eighteen years old. Yes, I am now old enough to legally open a bank account, vote, and purchase dry ice, if I so desire. Oh, the powers of adulthood. But if any of you remember, something else very important besides my birth happened on October 20th. It was when I started my blog! On October 20, 2015, I turned seventeen years old, and I started my blog, Genuinely Giancarlo.  Throughout the past year, I've written many blog posts (although they have been less frequent recently - I apologize!) and the response has been nothing but positive. I didn't know exactly how things would turn out with this blog, but I discovered that a lot of people like it when you sit at a computer for a while, put your thoughts into written text, and publish them on the internet. Who knew? So I don't know exactly what I want to say here. But I'm going to just write a whole bunch and hope that at least a little bit of it makes sense. When I started this blog...