2007 in review

This year has been quite a major one for me. I could describe it as eventful and flawed. Unlike 2006 which was "absolutely flawless" as George Michael says.

Mostly it was very stressful...studying for the Bacalaureat exam was not at all delightful. We had to go to school even if all we did was waste time and get up early in the morning (although as I said in one of my previous entries, I miss Sincai), the BAC-subject teachers were really demanding and pressured us to study, while the others were either understanding or annoying. But no-one cared about the latter anyways ;).

Then after the BAC obstacle was passed with good grades, I had to get ready for the Architecture university entrance exam. Underprepared and not innately gifted, I failed so I ended up studying Civil Engineering. Which is not proving too enticing so far, but hey it's been just the first semester of the first year, what's best is yet to come. Or at least I like to think that.

The rest of the summer was pretty much boring...all I did was sleep and waste time. I had 2 short trips during August, but as I said before, I had a brilliant autumn. The best of my life. But that was the topic of a previous entry.

2007 was filled with plenty of deaths. Among people who I knew were Mrs. Colceriu (the "famous" History teacher, my 2nd fave all-time teacher), a classmate's mother and a middle school classmate who died in a car accident. And then there were the well-known people: Octavian Paler, Florian Pittis, the patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Ralu Filip, Antonio Puerta, Boris Eltsin, Luciano Pavarotti, Chris Benoit and just a few days ago Benazir Bhutto. And these are just a few. It was definitely a black year.

But there were 4 new entries in my family this year! My cousin Brigitta and her husband got their 2nd daughter in January, and her sister Cristina and her husband are the parents of triplets born just a few weeks ago. Yay! I can't wait to see them!

My wishes for 2008? Many. Too many to mention.

It is extremely hard for me to choose one last song. 2007 was crazy, exhausting, freaky and unpredictable. Bittersweet. So yes, the song is "Bittersweet Symphony" by The Verve.