What 2017 brought out of me

I've been thinking of writing this post for the past few days. The 2018 is moving very fast. When I close my eyes, it feels like it was only yesterday when I was with my friends at the new year party. As I didn't keep track of preplanned posts, this post has come late. Any way, I hope it's nice.

2017 has not been an excellent year for me. I did learn quite a few lessons that year. It didn't fetch me a huge amount of prizes like 2016, but it has given me a whole bag of experiences. It gave me an idea of what an inter-school competition really is, by making me to participate in TCS ITWiz and many contests like that. It's not like I didn't get prizes at all, I did bag a few first prizes and some good remarks.

Above all things, the activity which made me happy was writing blogs. That's the only improvement, I think, I did in 2017! Of course, there might've been some other small stuff I did last year, but I enjoyed writing blogs.
I'm expecting good remarks and stuff in 2018. It's still a new month of a year, so I don't think it's too late to post this.

Remember, I'll be visiting the book fair tomorrow!!

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Saturdays with BK Uncle

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