Goodbye 2011!

So let me just say, I have a list of New Year's Resolutions this year that I aim to fulfil. There is no way this space is going to waste this year. Once a month MINIMUM I have to post. I mean, I have started and ended at least 10 blogs in my lifetime. I am now 19 and I think it is about time I follow through with this blogging thing. After all, I love to write.
Back to the issue at hand. It is nearing the end of 2011, and what a year it has been! I have been on a roller-coaster this year [genuinely! I went to Thorpe Park for the first time EVER, loved it. Had been on roller-coasters in other places but not there...] September 2010 I moved out of my parents' house to London to study, and since then until now, it has been a non-stopping stream of events that have culminated in the end of a truly life-changing year! Here is my notepad calender that is written out on my computer, every year I have one of these and the 2012 one has already started!

2011 will be something like:
Quintin Head 28th January [done]
Home February [done]
Job Interview @ Laura Ashley 3rd February [GOT THE JOB! DONE]
BUCS 19th/20th February [done]
Hammersmith Women's Head 27th February [done]
Performance 16th March [done]
WOMEN'S HEAD OF THE RIVER 19th March [done]
TOUR Italy 16th to 22nd of April [done]
BUCS REGATTA May [done]
Exam [just the 1] May [done]
BABY NEPHEW BORN IN May [done]
Noah and the Whale LIVE 16th May [done]
Sports Awards Dinner 23rd May [done]
SUMMERBALL 28th May [done]
Portugal [north] June [done]
GLEE LIVE 26th June [done]
Thorpe Park! 28th June [done]
Nottingham [Anna and Rach] July [done]
MOVE OUT July [done]
Portugal [friends vacation] July [cancelled]
GENEVA [Mommy ♥] July [done]
19th Birthday 27th of July [done]
NEW House AUGUST [done]
Job in Richmond Theatre AUGUST [done]
BERLIN! [Saiesha] ♥ September [done! best thing EVER]
Slow Club Live 26th September [done]
The Faith Machine @ The Royal Court [done]
FIRST DAY OF LECTURES! [done]
South Pacific @ The Barbican [done]
EMMY THE GREAT 29th September [done]
Laura Marling 17th October [done]
Saved @ The Lyric Theatre 24th October [done]
Noah and the Whale [AGAIN!] 26th October [done]
Anna Calvi 1st November [cancelled]
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 1st November [done]
The Grand Guinoll @ the Courtyard Theatre 2nd November [done]
3 Daft Monkeys 9th November [done]
Brighton 14/15 November [done]
TWIATHLON 17/18 November [done]
Portugal :) 19th-22nd November [done]
Marcus Foster 23rd November [done]
24 HOUR ERGATHON 8th/9th December [done]
RURC Christmas MEAL 14th December [done]
Slow Club with Emma Shores 19th December [done]
24/25th CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [done]
New Years Eve Celebrations 31st December
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Funny thing about 2011, is that it all fits nicely in a column! I look back on this year and think to myself 'Diana, you've done a hell of a lot for yourself!' I mean what self-respectful student can afford to pay for 5/6 trips? 8 concerts? 8/9 theatre trips? And a million competition race fees?! None! But I pulled it off. Scrapping every last penny of my student loans alongside my salary, I managed to give myself a pretty amazing 2011! Events wise at least. 

There is only one last thing to tick off that list, and it will be a fun-filled evening after the phenomenal display of Fireworks in the Thames! Most of my friends won't remember what happened that night, as booze will determine their state in the morning and whether or not their memories will be functioning. But I will remember. My sober self will have the photographic evidence and the clear image in my mind, of a beautiful farewell to the year that served me a lot of stuff to handle. In the midst of it all, the bright side. A new start, 2012 shall be better! We can make it better. So 10 trips? 10 concerts? 11 plays? And TWO MILLION competition fees?! Bring it on, I will be poor and dishevelled by the end of it all, but my list will be twice this size and I will again celebrate with a BANG! a year of fantastic experiences. 

I suggest you write down a list of your own with your eventful 2011, and ask yourself if you'd do it any differently? If you think you would... then make 2012 your year! That's my plan afterall!