2015

Good Evening
The festive period is over, and 2014 is drawing to a close. With 2015 being so close, I thought I'd write a little about the year I've had.
I started this year with a group of friends who I no longer know, let alone am friendly with. That, for me, would be the biggest change throughout the year.

Despite this, my year has been full of brilliant moments which I am so thankful for. For example, I managed to see a huge amount of live music this year, including Frank Turner, Lauren Aquilina (twice), McBusted and The Kooks.

At Green Man festival in the su
mmer, I saw Daughter, First Aid Kit, The Augustines, Georgia Ruth, Anna Calvi and loads more. Live music is something that I could not imagine living without, so I enjoyed all of these gigs to no end.
I've also been lucky enough to see Wicked in the WMC in Cardiff, and Billy Elliot and Les Mis in the West End.
In March, I celebrated my 15th birthday with my family and friends, which I am so thankful.
 In May and June I sat some of my GCSEs. I didn't work as hard as I could have done, and in turn, with a couple of exceptions, received mediocre grades. This, however, has motivated me to work harder for Year 11, which I am already doing in preparation for my exams in early January.
As ever, late June brought my school's annual production, which this year was High School Musical. I always enjoy taking part in these, and I'm not happy that I only have one left!

In July, I did work experience in the nursery of my primary school. I found this incredibly difficult to begin with but soon (sort of) settled into it. It was good experience for me, although I always thought there were other things that would have been better for me.
Rachel and I visited Oxford in August, which was lovely. Pretty much all we did was spend a lot of money but hey, when has that ever not been fun? It was such a beautiful city to visit and I'd love to go again.
Also in August, my brother played a tennis tournament in Wimbledon. He had won all the necessary heats in other tournaments, so was chosen to represent South Wales boys for his age group. This meant that my family and I all traveled to Wimbledon, and got to see where the actually tournament is held. We were given a tour of the grounds and it was so interesting to see what we all see on the TV every summer.

In November, I took my Grade 6 piano exam and Grade 7 flute exam. Thankfully, I passed both of them, although the marks I got for scales were verging on embarrassing!
Throughout 2014, I am so so so grateful to have stayed incredibly close friends with Rachel, who I have been friends with for nearing 1000 days (Rachel worked it out on the back of a Christmas card while we were sitting in a cafe but we don't have to talk about that.)
As well as this, we've both got a whole lot closer to our friend Anna, who we've known for a while but never been overly friendly, but now are best friends with. The three of us stick together in school and are slowly working through our GCSE year together. I am so thankful for them.
I find it hard to comprehend just how much of my life has changed this year, from a complete friendship change, to learning how to control and overcome my anxiety, to applying for college and to passing my flute and piano exams.
2015 will bring more changes, like leaving school and starting college, but I can't wait. I hope it will be an even better year than the one just gone.