This is Minna's last teen diary, because she is no longer a teenager! (She hasn't been for a while now, actually, but we turned a blind eye because we love her collages so much.) Thank you, Minna, for a year of beautiful scenes from your life and your mind. We'll introduce a new visual diarist next week (get ready, she is awesome); meanwhile, Minna isn't going anywhere. She'll still be illustrating lots of stuff on Rookie.
Dylan
Life just seems too good to be true most of the time, and weeks like these are the reality check. Read More »
Naomi
I want more time. To do what, I don’t exactly know. Read More »
Katherine
Moving on is good, but it’s scary. Read More »
Ruby
Bottles of soap and whole rolls of toilet paper keep ending up inside the toilets in the middle of the night. Read More »
If I could, I would totally throw confetti around and make a banner for you Naomi.
Log in to replyGood luck for your exam results (AS results I’m guessing?) tomorrow Naomi! I’m getting mine as well….agh!
Log in to replyCan a preteen Rookie please tell Dylan that she is their hero?
Log in to replyMinnaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!! Im so sad that you wont be a diarist anymore! Thought your last diary was so awsome and good.
Log in to replyNooo! Minna, we’ll all miss you so much! I can’t wait to see more of your work on Rookie!
Log in to replyKatherine, I feel you. I leave on the 23rd, and I’m… scared and excited and apprehensive and nervous, among many other emotions. It’s pretty terrifying to go to live with strangers 10 hours away from your home, and I’m definitely feeling that terror. And thinking about trying to make friends??? Even more terrifying. But with any luck, we will get through it :).
Log in to replyomg minna!!!!!
Log in to replyRuby, can’t wait you to come back home and start writing posts again!: )
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Log in to replyDylan, it’s really nice to hear that you feel like that. Which sounds mean! But I mean I just feel like you described my life I just feel so defeated and them randomly lazy and I like how you just have a cool life because when I get like that I feel like I will just die before anything I wanted too ever happens or that I’ll just never leave Canberra and Ill become a public servant like the rest of the city. Anyway thanks gurrl. You always make me happy.
Log in to replyKatherine, good luck with starting college! Your required alcohol education course sounds like the one I had to do before my freshman year. Our version had a cartoon frog named “Hoppy” who would chime in every four slides to remind us that “One cup is NOT one drink!” People were still imitating Hoppy’s cheerful exhortations when they were seniors.
Which is not to say that there’s not useful information in those classes, and that drinking safely is really, really important, but the heavy-handed, middle school aesthetic of the AlcoholEdu system makes it perfect as an icebreaker when you’re trying to meet other fabulous new freshmen.
Also, backpacks in college = good. Definitely bring a backpack. It saves so much time trudging back and forth to your dorm, and it’s great for smuggling bagels into the library.
Log in to replySome college libraries entirely allow food!
Log in to replyi got an A in history, a B in politics and C in english lit (the irony) !! i am pleased
Log in to replyCongratulations Naomi!! :) I got my results today aswell and felt pleased too but I totally get what you mean…
Log in to replyThe end of summer is looming and I have no idea what to do with myself
Naomi fist off you like Tame Impala!!! Second I went to boarding school art year which I absolutely hated. The school was full of close minded elitists who I had nothing in common with, I was homesick all year, isolated and wanting so badly to take part in some sort of discussion that actually made me think. By the middle of the year I had developed serious anxiety and depression. I had my first anxiety attack and thought I was going to die. I continued to have anxiety attacks for the rest of the year. Nobody understood or helped me. The first time I told my mom she thought it was all in my head. I felt completely alone. Finally my mom did some research on anxiety and believed me. I started to go to doctors and get help. It was finally decided that I return home. Now I have a week before my new school starts and am becoming more and more anxious and facing the same problems as you. I don’t really know why I’m sharing all this on but i just had this weird aha! moment where i realized I’m not the only one. thank you.
Log in to replyMINNA! I will so miss your gorgeous collages but I’m glad you’ll still be illustrating.
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