let's catch up.

So I only just realised that there was a good 6 or 7 month gap in my blogposts, and a lot can happen in that amount of time, and a lot did. Here is a short summary of a few things that happened:

• I turned 17-years-old, and celebrated at New Farm Park with friends, family, tree-climbing and macaroons.
• I began dating a dashing young man.
• I had the most fun and best big camp ever with all my mates.
• I saw my artwork in the Powerhouse.
• We sold our house at Camp Hill, and moved two streets down into a rental, which I dislike (I miss my old house, and so does our dog...)
• I finished QCS, and all high school exams and assignments.
• I had my formal.
• I went to Mungindi on a Storm Co trip.
• I graduated High School.
• I got a valuable piece of paper from the QUT Vice-Chancellor.
• I got my hair cut.
• I started using a film camera.
• I've had more time for craft.
• I made a lemon meringue pie completely from scratch.
• I went to Fiji.
• I went to San Diego, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
• We started building a house on our block at Coorparoo.
• I started studying Architecture.
• I learnt what it's like to be lonely in a big place.
• I was a counsellor at Junior Camp, and it was one of the most exhausting, but greatest weeks of my life.
• I had to say goodbye to some of my dearest friends as they moved down south, but grew closer to other friends.
• I saw Diana Krall, Melody Gardot and Madeleine Peyroux live.
• My Mother and Aunties went to Paris.
• I got a Suzani quilt as a very EARLY birthday present, haha.
• My friend Lauren and I started organising a friday night youth program.
• I went on a design camp.
• A close family friend passed away.
• I experienced the awesomeness of a bonfire.
• I conquered my first (extremely scary!) semester of university.
• I learnt that life is what you make it.
• I learnt that change, though not always welcomed, is both necessary and inevitable.
• I learnt that God is the one thing that remains present, constant and unchanged.