I am sixteen, going on seventeen

Ahh, the Sound of Music. That movie is just the greatest thing ever! I haven't seen it in a while, but if it ever happened to be on television or I would happen to see it in our big mess of DVDs, I would totally watch it! The thing I love the most about it is all the music in it; there is the puppet song (don't remember what it is called), the "DO RE ME" song, but most importantly, the song "I am Sixteen, Going on Seventeen". Why is that song so important? Well, there is a national holiday coming up for this one girl who is, weirdly enough, sixteen and turning seventeen! Yes, that is right, it's ME. So what could I write about? What I hope I am getting? Nope, I know what I am getting, sad enough. It all, strangely, goes back to Christmas.
On Christmas Eve, around ten or so at night, my cousins and I were all just hanging out in my cousins basement, in Indiana. I happen to have had to go to the bathroom, so I halted my texting session with a friend and plopped my phone in my back pocket... not a good plan. Next thing I know, my phone is half way in the toilet, floating around like an inner tube. Now I know what you are thinking, and NO there wasn't anything IN the toilet.. ew! But still, my phone was IN THE TOILET. I frantically took it out, drying it as fast as I could, yet in the end there was nothing I could do. Turning it off and blow drying it, laying it in a bag of rice, nothing. So I had to talk with my parents about what to do because, in the long run, my plan for my phone wasn't going to be up for quite sometime and I was going to need a new phone, pronto. My mom, unfortunately, had to tell me that I was getting a camera for my birthday and that she needed to know if I wanted a phone instead of a camera, or the camera, cause she had to return the camera soon if I chose the phone. Luckily enough, I found out that my plan was over February 28, so I only had to use one of my old working phones for a couple of months! With that said, I was very pleased, yet disappointed that I knew my upcoming birthday gift.
So instead of talking about what I want, I want to look back on my sweet sixteen. It actually was one of my best years, so far. I went through a lot, but I grew a lot from everything. There has been new and amazing people that I have met and are now my best friends, and there are some things that I have left behind. I went from being afraid of a lot of things, to letting myself go a little and learning what I could from my mistakes. I know I have become way more responsible with my school work and life outside of school, and I am more open about things. I've learned that, no matter what, be yourself. In the end, even if you lose things that you thought were what you needed, everything will be where it is suppose to be. I've lived one of THE best sweet sixteens that anyone ever could, but tomorrow, a new page is being turned.
At 7:30, I will be officially a woman... well, at least someone with new driving hours!