Summary of 2009

As 2009 draws to a close and 2010 edges ever so near, I can't help but reflect over this past year and what it has been to me.

2009 was a lot of different things. Started with an amazing Summer, including a trip to Kingston SE to visit a friend and enjoy the country/ beach. Also enjoyed a weekend in Melbourne around Valentine's day to meet a whole bunch of people and see friends again that I know from a great little forum called Gush. Seeing the path of destruction the Victorian bush fires left was something I'll never be able to forget. After my Summer break I started University, doing a course called Foundation Studies which taught me many things that I am now able to use practically. I wrote my very first HD (High Distinction) graded paper, on koalas.
Summer seemed to drag on a bit longer well into March. I experienced my third year at SYG, State Youth Games, where my team from Happy Valley placed second over the whole weekend.

I fell hard for a boy I had met on Gush and talked with online on many occasions since mid-2008. With my stimulus package from the government I was able to suprise Elliott at his work a couple of days before Easter. Over the Easter weekend we went to Toowoomba for Easterfest, a Christian music festival. Before long, Elliott and I were soon a couple, enjoying many times chilling in the Chai Tent drinking Chai.
Between leaving Queensland and Elliott coming down to Adelaide to visit me I volunteered to lead on a Lutheran youth camp where I was shaped and encouraged to find God's love beyond where I am.

Before long, Winter had settled in and I escaped to the sunny tshirt and shorts weather in Queensland again for a whole month. Elliott whisked me away to the Gold Coast for my birthday and spent a day at Dreamworld. The day that I almost lost my voice box on the Tower of Terror.
After my awesome Queensland trip and I had started semester 2, I had dropped out of uni as I found my passion from it had disappeared. I also celebrated my 21st with friends and family a month after my birthday where we sung our hearts out thanks to my friend's collection of SingStar games.

September brought Spring, along with another short trip to Queensland to see Relient K and friends, bringing back with me Elliott for keeps.
I spent weeks upon resumes upon interview upon callbacks to find a job but with no luck. Still I enjoyed life and having Elliott in Adelaide with me. November I volunteered again, for Schoolies Festival along the coast at Victor Harbor. Through the events of that life-changing weekend I decided a pathway for my life that I would be passionate about walking along. Not too long after I had applied for Bachelor of Youth Work at Tabor Adelaide and GOT IN!

I am glad for what I have gone through this year. But at the same time with all these happy thoughts, I still have some regrets which I want to try to change for next year and beyond. I want to try to be someone who is genuine, to be a person people can rely on, to be someone who will be passionate about what I'm doing and to be truthful about my faith, to others and myself.

2010, here I come.