I’m sure there are like THOUSANDS of these posts in circulation right now, but nevertheless I am still going to proceed in compiling this ground breaking review.

Unlike a lot of folks in the blog world, who plan out what they are going to write, I sit down play Barney Stinston’s Get Psyched Mix and begin to let my fingers shred on the keyboard.

YEAR IN REVIEW!

New year’s day last year found me waking up on some guy’s sofa in San Diego, remembering something about Sangria, Saki and shots. Yeah that’s right I spent most of the first half of the year in San Francisco and various other parts of California. If you remember I was working with Extranomical as part of my placement for University.

January was the month when the grey clouds or the previous year began to lift and sunshine burned up my hours. It was in January that I met a bunch of amazing people, many of whom I now call good friends. They live all over the world and we all met in the City by the Bay. The most interesting of these people was Justine Decotis, a woman who I would develop a wonderful relationship with and go on to fall more in love with throughout the rest of 2009.

The work in San Francisco continued, I learnt so much about life and different cultures in those seven months. Like so many good things, however, it came to an end. I wanted to just disappear, forget everything I have became and move on. Goodbyes are so hard, none as hard as saying goodbye to Justine, we still classed ourselves as together but that would be the last I would see of her this year.

Arriving home, what a culture shock. Even now, I still can’t get used to things and the little quirks of my home country. I slept for days, blaming it on Jet-Lag. The truth was I wanted to hold on, wanted to keep my past alive.

I spent the next few months trying to fit myself into the world around me instead of the world around me shaping me into its mould. I started back at the vineyard church and really began to get close to God, learning from Him as much as I could. It seems as if he was the only friend I had from California that was with me.

I also began final year in university. Interactive Multimedia Design, the killer year. It was indeed hard to find the motivation to work after the major down that came from returning home, but I pushed on and in.

It was here, in my pushing in that I felt my heart break. I seen the current state of the world and realised that I wanted to do something to fix it. Call me a big hippy but I feel its about time something was done that is really effective.

I got a goat for christmas, it was my best present and it really reminded me what I had decided to do.

Uni waged on and the pain of being apart came and went, then came again and left, and went. It continued.

So this is me now. 31st December 2009, the end of 2009.

I learnt to step up, finally.

I learnt to live upwards and outwards.

I learnt lots of things.

I feel as if this year has been hugely important.

I have learnt that I am in control of nothing

I know that God provides and provides far above expectation.

The future?

2010

Well almost a year after I started dating her, Justine will arrive here and we will be reunited on January 22nd. My final year hard work really takes a step up, I MUST make a difference from now onwards.

What about you? How was your year? What are your plans for next year?

Here ends the decade