The year sure has gone quickly. To be honest, I think this is about the second time this year I've posted here. Blogging seems to have died out in the circles that once were. Perhaps it was the novelty of sharing thoughts with people you cared about, and who cared enough to read about you, in a way that didn't require finding a common free time, making an appointment, using leftover pocket-money on petrol and espresso coffee and then forgetting how to make conversation with the person sitting in front of you. I really do miss blogging, but I don't think I blogged because of time restrictions. High school provides so much free time and perhaps that is why I spent so much time updating my blog and reading other blogs in those times. It just seems that now it's much more important for me to actually make time to (physically) catch up with people. The problem is, most of those people I love dearly in Christchurch I see very seldomly because I head back up there when I get a chance and spend a lot of time with a few people. For the rest of the people who I don't get to see, I just kind of hope that they join facebook and update there, given its system of notifying updates on other people's webpages updates everyone's webpage. For instance, when my brother started dating his status changed from "single" to "in a relationship" which posted the change on everyone's webpage that was associated with him.
This really just allows people to keep up to date with everyone they know with just a 2 minute glance at their own webpage; which to me is very appealing as spending hours going through all the different blogs cannot really justify anything more than procrastination in a daily routine where very little free time for web-browsing is possible.

But I will update this page still, occasionally.
My life at the moment is reasonably stressful. The Human Body Systems exam is on Friday, then three more (Metabolism, Biology and Protein Structure) over the space of the next few weeks. On top of that, I've changed church from DCBC to BATCH (Breakfast at the Centennial Hall) in the mornings (8.30-10) and CCC Dunedin Metro (Christian City Church) in the evenings (6-late). I've started getting involved in the AV team again and intend to be better trained for more of the sound and lighting aspects of this over the start of next year. Myself and 3 people from CCC are flatting together next year (one of whom I flat with now) but are yet to find a flat that doesn't charge the earth or is unfixably insanitary. I'm also looking at getting a job over summer and am waiting on a friend to get back to me on whether I have it all not. So all in all there is a bit of stress in my life at the moment. But I will survive.

In Christ,
Rayd