The year of 2009 was my last year of skating. Reason being, I was about to go into high school and I was worried my grades would suffer because I would have no time for studying inbetween skating and homework as well as family activities. And to be completly honest, the prices for my skating was absolutly crazy. The blade and boot of a skate had to be bought seperatly, I had between 2-3 coaches which means 2-3 lessons each time i went. We also had to pay for the ice and dresses and accessories.
The one thing people asume when hearing about this is that the think I gave up, because it was just to hard, or I needed an excuse to quit. But that is completly WRONG! I never wanted to stop skatng, if I could I would go back, in the blink of an eye; it’s not something I would have to think over. But now I am picking grade 11 courses and if my grades arn’t all 80′s and 90′s my schooling after high school might be at risk.
Stopping skating was absolutly without a doubt one of the hardest things ever. Walking out of the rink knowing I wont be going back, saying goodbye to great coaches and fantastic friends. It wasn’t something I enjoyed doing 
but thanks to the amazing social network site known as facebook I still keep in touch with a bunch of people I skated with, individualy and through syncrho.
Since this blog hasn’t been updated in quite sone time I will summarize my last achivements in skating. Before I stopped figure skating I had reached a level I had always dreamed of getting to and higher. I consistantly and cleanly landed my axel, I had reached the “shoot the duck” position in my sit spin, and I was improving on my camel spin. I was also practicing my double Salchow (I was so close).
In dance I was on my senior silver dances which means I had completed the mjority of them. The last compitition I did I placed first, which I guess you could call “going out with a bang” but I just call it a job well done !
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