Roll on Summer. Again.

No more of this please...

You honestly have no idea how stressful school is until you reach Upper Sixth. Everything seems to be alright, your teachers are dead on, you're keeping up with all your work, then exams arrive. Then they turn on you. The first week of May could not come soon enough.

May. A month of studiousness, learnedness and all-round preparation for my A Level examinations. Not. Timetable thus far, German early May, next exam, an entire month after that. Then a free house for two weeks, and another two exams somewhere in the middle. That's not too bad, is it? Stephen and I shall be shipping the parents off to Canada for two weeks, so that leaves us with an empty house, and two cars waiting to be driven.

After that, Ghana. This is promising to be the best trip of my life so far. My first trip to Africa, my first mission trip, I really cannot wait. The fundraising has even been amazing, getting to know everyone in the team a little better and become more aware of everything going on at Craigmore, getting closer to everyone in the church.

After that, my seemingly annual trip to Germany. Berlin this time. I've already started planning where I want to go, my camera and I are going to be inseparable. Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis Kirche, that's one stop, the Olympiastadion, that's another, and of course the Brandenburger Tor and Reichstag, I'm going to be in my element.

And in September... Wait, should school not come into this somewhere...? No, one second, I'll be finished! For good! I'll be going to the big bad world of university, results pending, Queens University of Belfast. After these exams in January, that's looking like a distant prospect, going to need to get my head down and actually work for a while... Bad times me thinks.

As for the here and now, it's not been too bad, my friends have as per usual been brilliant, youth club is bant, church is always great, and school is as good as it gets. Not missing the snow in the slightest, and enjoying getting out with the camera more than ever.

So, that seems to be it for the time being, I've had a post in the making for the past two months, but it appears to have ground to a halt. That may get posted anyway for the craic, but whatever, til later, God bless.