With the New Year giving everyone a new start, there is a lot to look forward to. There are so many new things to try, and older things to repeat. The excitement is endless.

The opportunities and choices 2024 brings are exhilarating, people have so much to think about, and so much to do.

Students here at Decatur have really had a lot to say about this upcoming year. With so much to try, and so many things to do again, the list of things everyone is looking forward to is endless. With the New Year, there is much to look forward to!

1. seeing family

2. the beach

3. summertime

4. vacation

5. hunting

6. reading more

7. journaling

8. sunsets

9. movies

10. tanning

11. swimming

12. working  less  (with  the minimum wage increasing)

13. the holidays

14. fishing

15. new classes

16. new friends

Other things people are looking forward to are some of their own personal goals, like (17) running, (18) creating a memory jar, and (19) being kinder, (20) eating healthier, (21) trying new things, (22) going out more/being more social, (23) expanding their vocabulary, and maybe (24) trying to expand their music taste.

When it comes to seeing family, one student went into detail about being excited for cousin’s week. She explains that the week is a specific week designated to specifically family time, only all of her cousins are included.

She is excited to start her memory jar for this week. “I want to make a jar and put a good thing that happens once, each week so I can go back at the end of the year and look back on that.”