My year in 2008 wasn’t my best year. To me it was okay. There will always be good and bad things that happen. So, I am going to tell you what happened in that last year.
I had turned 17 years old and got engaged with someone who I thought made me happy. But I guess I was love blind or something because everyone kept on telling me that it was bad. I was going even more down hill then I had thought. I didn’t like myself at all, and I didn’t really know what to do about it.

When I lived in California I had started experimenting with some things that I knew I would do more of. In May of last year I was out with some friends and we had a lot to drink. I took them over to a lake by my dad’s house on the 4-wheeler. My friend had alcohol poisoning and his mom came and found us and she had called the ambulance. We both got charged with drinking under age and I got a DUI. Wasn’t my best choice but it was a choice. I got a job at Smiths Food and Drug about 3 days after that happened because I knew when I went to court for my review I was going to get a big fine. I decided to go to a friends’ house for the week before my court date and do whatever I wanted because I thought I was going to go to DT again or something. So my step mom called my probation officer and said I ran away. Well, I went to court and they didn’t want to put me in DT again so they called my therapist and people from some other places.

My judge had ordered me into foster care in June when I went to my court review from other charges. I had gone to Vantage point for about 2 weeks until they found a home for me that was structured enough but not too awful bad. I went into foster care, and I have been clean since. I am not allowed to talk to that certain person. I have anew life with new people. I have a new boy friend and friends that have a good influence on me. I am not influenced easily but I tend to not care about a lot of things. I am starting to care a lot more and act differently. For the first time since about 4th grade I am getting a 3.8 GPA.
I am proud of myself, and starting to like my self a lot better. Maybe being taken away into care wasn’t such a bad thing. I think 2009 will be even better.

Kelsee