2010 Year in Review

I am back again with a look back at my 2010, one of the greatest years in my life in so many ways. This year has been full of some lows and many highs as well as many life changing, once in a lifetime experiences.

The year started out rather uneventfully until my 20th birthday where I got to spend times with my close friends and kick off the semester. Then came the infamous Snopocalypse where I spent time with my friends and got closer to them. In the beginning of March I went to Koach Kallah at Pearlstone which allowed me to meet and become friends with Jewish college kids from all across the nation as well as reconnect with some old friends.

Then I had Spring Break Miami where we renovated a local park and worked at an after school program at a local elementary school. We each had a kid to be a friend and mentor to and my kid was full of energy and truly made my experience memorable. On top of this I had the opportunity to meet more college kids from different schools all over the country as well as strengthen the relationship I had with people from Towson. The highlight of the trip for me was successfully running a trip to a Miami Heat-San Antonio Spurs (my favorite team) game at which everyone had fun, that made me feel amazing.

All the while I was planning to run for Vice President of Towson Hillel, I found out one of my friends was running against me. I ended up losing the first election and later was told my best friend voted against me. After some constitutional issues there was a 2nd election which I won and my fraternity brother won President. The spring semester ended on a high when I won the Emerging Student Leader Award for Towson University, I was really looking forward to the summer and working at my local camp (milldale) for the 9th straight summer.

My Summer lived up to and surpassed my expectations, for only the 2nd time in 9 years I got the age I wanted (the same kids I had the year before) I was also a bus counselor in the afternoon and a late stay counselor. My kids were awesome each in their own way, I made some new friends, and reconnected with some old ones. The best part was getting a hand written note from one of my campers which said I was his favorite counselor. There were so many memorable moments (CTC, SZH, swimming, sleepover, O's Game and much more) and I will never forget the summer of 2010 or the children in Bunk 4D, bus 12, or OM JCC late stay.

When my fall 2010 semester started I was very nervous about moving into my new apartment, being VP of Towson Hillel, and balancing that with my fraternity and academics. Although I had the roommate from hell it was a tremendous semester for a number of reasons. I had an extremly successful first semester as VP, I kept my grades up, and my fraternity had an amazing semester which was topped off with a extremly strong new group of brothers and a super successful crush party. The best part of the semester was that I started to feel more comfortable in my own skin, became more outspoken and outgoing, as well as made many new friends and became closer with my older friends.

In general this blog post is just the tip of the iceberg of what was a truly special and amazing year for me. I would like to thank all my friends, family, and anyone who had an effect on my 2010, I aboslutly can't wait for what 2011 has in store for me.