It's coming down like chocolate stars in the sun, and everything we had is gone.

After today, I will never again write the year "2007" on the front of a homework diary. Saying that, this time next year homework diaries will be something completely of the past.


I know it sounds a bit cliché, but I really don't know where time goes. It seems like just yesterday that I did my work-experience, when, in actual fact, it was almost a year ago. 2007, it seems, has been one of the fastest years of my life.
Though it may not have been entirely life-changing, I can look back at 2007 with a great deal of fondness and without ( i hope) many regrets.

I'm not quite certain whether 2008 induces more fear or excitement in me, nevertheless what I'm pretty sure about is that it will be an important year in my life. For one, I turn eighteen and, on top of that, I say goodbye to Belfast High and hello to a new life at University. Exciting, yet absolutely terrifying.
Anyway, I feel that there's no point thinking about what the future will bring without reminiscing about all the good ( and bad) things that 2007 brought to my life.

Unlike most years where I make up a ridiculous new year's resolution that I will inevitably break, this year Catherine and I decided to do something a little bit different; a sort of do-something-new-every-month type thing. Our intention was, in fact, to do something completely different each month but a combination of being skint, stuck for ideas or not having enough time made that rather impossible. This is a list of what we did end up doing:

January- We made our first vid of 2007, which wasn't a complete novelty I'll admit, but it was good fun I'm sure.
February- We made a sort of person-cake called "Susannah", which we ate afterwards. ( It even had edible hair, mmm.)
March- We went to our school formal and were deemed as "wasted" by two barman. We went to a public speaking competition in FivemileTown and saw a girl who thought you pronounce violence as "viowence."
April- We got the bus down to Dublin for the day and found our way round by following the tram lines. That was a pretty fun day, actually.
May- Presumably we visited Mauds a record-breaking amount of times, moaned about King Lear until we were blue in the face and spent weekends in doing art.
June- We went to see Chicago in the Grand Opera House and all that jazz. Gosh, I'm so funny.
July- We had a day out at Belfast Zoo and spent two weeks in a country where you did nothing but sweat and stupidly forgot to bring bikinis so were forced to get naked in the showers that didnt have doors.
August- We spent an entire two weeks apart, then when Catherine returned from desolateland we talked on the phone for a staggering 3 and a half hours. We also got completely and utterly drenched in the rain at a christian event in Carrick.
September- We decorated our very own study booth, which stayed tidy for about a day.
October- We must have forgotten about our new-thing-per-month task.
November-We wrote our very own diabetes-related parody to the tune of " It's raining men" and accidentally wore the same outfit for non-uniform day.
December- We lost our armageddon virginity, and it was worth every minute of it. * hangs head in shame*

There you have it: a summary of how our New Year's resolution went. Truthfully it went better than any other New Year's resolution I've ever made.

2007 was, in general, a pretty great year. The highlights, without a speck of doubt, were the formal and Moldova. Considering I didn't even think I was going to be able to go , it's not surprising that I loved every minute of it. While I was there, i was a different person. I can't quite place my finger on what it was, but I think I was maybe less selfish, less materialistic and more focused on others.
It never really hit me until a good while afterwards that we'd done such an amazing thing out there. Though I can't say I miss the food or the smell of the "toilets", I do miss being there.

With 2008 only being 7 hours and 5 minutes away; I only have two resolutions:
1) to sort out my relationship with God, full stop.
2) to enjoy 2008 as much as I did 2007, if not more.

Happy New Year everyone.