rain. last year. and blogs.

it's raining, and this is my first blog.
so welcome! i'll try to make this as interesting as possible. i'm not much of a writer, but i'll give it my best shot. it was pointed out to me that i don't share very much, so i figured this was a good way to help me do that.

so to catch you up on the extraordinary life that is lived by me: I just finished my freshman year at tech. after changing my major twice i finally found the right one for me-- speech! everyone makes fun of me, especially my family, but i love it and i can't imagine studying anything else. i want to go to law school. where? i'm not sure. i want to get out of tennessee and experience someplace new. that i know.
i also recently just moved out on my own... kinda. i'm away from my family and out of monterey for the first time. i love it. it's not like i thought it would be.



i never thought i would be in the place where i am now. after graduating everyone told me that i would lose touch with my friends from high school. i didn't really believe them. i thought me and my friends could last. surely we could do it. but we're all on different paths now, going different places, doing different things, and i hardly talk to any of those friends anymore. which makes me sad. a year and half ago it would have devastated me, but today, today i'm okay with it. the people that i hung out with and went to when i needed someone are gone now, and i hate to use the word "replaced" but i've got new people that fill those shoes now. and i'm happy. that's a sentence i love saying: i'm happy. still miss those guys though...



so i never thought that i could grow so much in just one year. the first is learning that things are going to change whether i like it or not, and it's a good thing sometimes. the next and probably most important is my relationship with god. i've always had one but it has strengthened so much this year, thanks to the wesley foundation. wesley had given me opportunities that i never saw myself doing or having. being a part of the wesley singers is both a dream come true and blessing in disguise. i've always wanted to be a part of the choir ever since i was little but i didnt really have any other aspects of wesley in mind. choir got me wesley and the people and experiences helped keep me there. seeing the joy we bring to people is probably my favorite part. i love being a part of something bigger than myself. mission trip was another thing i'm glad i did. i've never really been a fan of manual labor but on this trip i just did it, without complaining, and fun the whole time. which surprised me. i would do it again in a heartbeat. and a great end to a great year was choir tour-- baltimore. i could talk about this trip forever but i'll just say it really opened my eyes, opened my heart, and opened my mind.

i'm going to try to keep up with this. if you've read this far i owe you such a muffin basket! i look forward to things coming up in my life and i look forward to sharing it with the world!

peace, love, and thanks be to god--

taylor.