In life we use phrases to summarise our feelings and emotions, a lot of the time we all know what they are supposed to mean but until you find yourself in a situation to use them you don’t really have a clue what they really mean.

Time flies when you’re having fun – this is something that I’ve heard people say and understood the sentiment, but until this year I’ve never really had anything that earned the use of it.

If anyone had asked me a year and a half ago the question ‘Did I think I would have lived in America for 4 months’ I would have told them the only answer that would come to mind – No.

A lot has happened since the start of this year – most of it flashing past before I’ve had time to realise.

The beginning of the year saw the end of the first year at Kingston, to think that months had past from the time I first moved in, moving back to Torquay for the summer and leaving Kingston behind was strange enough, it doesn’t seem much of a problem in most people’s eyes but moving around so much, from uni to home from home to America back to home and now back to uni again takes its toll on you.

Summer came and went, in between was a hail storm, application processes for Kingston Study Abroad and UNC Charlotte Enrolment, Visa Application and anything else you can throw in for good measure.

August 15th came and I found myself 30,000 feet above ground cruising across the ocean in a US Airways 757 literally flying into the unknown. After a few days things settled down from mayhem to just madness and that’s where it pretty much stayed until the end.

Every day that came in between was an experience that I will never forget, the people, the place everything – My only wish is that I could still be there…

The future looks uncertain, next on the endless list of things to do is to find a flat, I can only imagine what a mess that is going to be…

Looking back 2006 was probably the best year of all so far, I just hope the trend continues.

To all that I know, Happy New Year and I wish you all the greatest success for 2007…whatever it brings.