I was Ms. Dikovsky's student about 13 years ago. I was just thinking today that in June 2009, it will 10 years since I graduated high school -- I feel kind of old. I usually say that as one gets older, his or her responsibilities increase and that has been the case with me. I have not been able to hike as much as I would like to hike because I have work to do or something always comes up. However, since I am finally done with college (yep, almost 10 years after high school graduation) I will be able to dedicate more time to hiking and doing other activities that I was not able to do because of the amount of school work I had to complete. I look forward to hiking many times with the hiking club.