How Was 2008 For You?

Our slogan for the year - "fuck 2008".

1. The biggest change in your life this year?
My second bout of depression, having my grandmother and one friend die, having my partner lose his job and mine move to the chopping block.

2. What did you do over the summer?
Recover. I did that pretty well.

3. How were relationships with boyfriends/ girlfriends?
Strengthened by fire. Not pleasant, but we came through it all right.

4. What news story sticks in your mind the most from 2008?
The beginning of ecomonic collapse, Obama's campaign.

5. Favourite song from the year?
"Hail to the Geek" by the Deaf Pedestrians.

6. Favourite artist this year?
Meese and Roe. (That's two.)

7. Did you make any new years resolutions and if so, did you stick to them?
Yes, I lost some weight. Gaining it back, though.

8. What are you most proud of personally this year (i.e.- something you have done)?
Getting through it with my sanity intact.

9. Who are you most proud of (can be a famous or non- famous person)?
My mother, who faced some really difficult times better than I thought she could.

10. Did you have to learn any hard life lessons in the past 12 months?
You can wake up to find a friend is gone forever. Depression can come back. Don't tense your arms against the steering wheel when a car plows into yours. Everything is ephemeral, and that needs to be accepted.

11. Have you had any life- changing experiences in 2008?
More than I wanted.

12. Did you do anything you never thought you would do?
I survived the car wreck.

13. Did you gain any new qualifications?
No, but I should've. Frittered too much of the year away.

14. What is your happiest memory from the year?
My tenth anniversary party.

15. What was your most stupid incident (drunk stories would be good!)?
Too many to pick just one.

16. What things do you appreciate most in your life at the moment?
My partney, my family, my friends, and my (relative) financial security.

17. What are your plans for xmas/ new year?
Make things go as smoothly as possible.

18. Are you making any new years resolutions for 2009? What do you hope will be different?
Get back on the diet and exercise regiment.

19. How do you rate 2008 on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the worst and 10 being the best)?
2.

20. Will you still be on EC this time next year?
Possible but not probable.

Lex

 

1. The biggest change in your life this year?
Coming out to myself and my family and friends.

2. What did you do over the summer?
I danced in a four-week ballet intensive, The King and I at one theatre, and The Music Man at another. I also visited my grandparents in Arizona and went to Colorado.

3. How were relationships with boyfriends/ girlfriends?
Sat next to a boy I liked in Spanish for a few months and came out to him- but he doesn't like me back. Had an on-and-off crush on my best friend. Dated a girl from dance who dumped me for someone else. Sexy.

4. What news story sticks in your mind the most from 2008?
Obama. I know everyone's saying this, but it's big.

5. Favourite song from the year?
"So What" by P!nk, and the memories I associate with it. :icon_wink

6. Favourite artist this year?
P!nk or Melissa Etheridge. Also, Muse is up there.

7. Did you make any new years resolutions and if so, did you stick to them?
Honestly, I can't remember. *headdesk*

8. What are you most proud of personally this year (i.e.- something you have done)?
I made it into Youth Company at dance and performed with a professional theatre for the first time.

9. Who are you most proud of (can be a famous or non- famous person)?
A friend of mine from school who needs to get his butt on EC, for coming out and being awesome.

10. Did you have to learn any hard life lessons in the past 12 months?
Don't trust a ho, never trust a ho.

11. Have you had any life- changing experiences in 2008?
Moving was a big change. And coming out.

12. Did you do anything you never thought you would do?
Swim in freezing water during a storm. And get felt up by a friend... (over clothes, though!)

13. Did you gain any new qualifications?
8th grade priority? Giving me the ability to cut lowly 6th and 7th graders in line for lunch and vending machines?

14. What is your happiest memory from the year?
Finding out I made Youth Company. I called my mom from Colorado w/ my grandparents and my ballet teacher answered her cell phone because my mom was at the teacher's house, picking up some forms. My mom made her tell me and I started crying on the phone.

15. What was your most stupid incident (drunk stories would be good!)?
I went swimming in September in an unheated pool while it was raining. It was FREEZING!

16. What things do you appreciate most in your life at the moment?
My friends for standing by my craziness, and my moms for loving me.

17. What are your plans for xmas/ new year?
Play a lot of drums and guitar, and spend New Year in Arizona being warm!

18. Are you making any new years resolutions for 2009? What do you hope will be different?
Dance harder, find a girlfriend who won't toy with me, work on my extensions, be a Merliton in Nutcracker. Practice drums & guitar more. I'll be busy!

19. How do you rate 2008 on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the worst and 10 being the best)?
8. It was an awesome year for school, dance, friends, and finding myself. I wish summer theatre had been a bit better, and I wish I wouldn't have lied to a gym teacher and gotten myself a detention. But it was great overall.

20. Will you still be on EC this time next year?
Definitely. Unless high school drives me to insanity.

 

1. The biggest change in your life this year?
I can't decide between coming out to my aunt and the surgery I had in March, which has seriously changed my life.

2. What did you do over the summer?
I went to Paris and then to Italy. Other than that, not much, apart from chilling with my friends

3. How were relationships with boyfriends/ girlfriends?
Non-existent.

4. What news story sticks in your mind the most from 2008?
Either Obama, Prop 8 or Baby P.

5. Favourite song from the year?
Genesis by Justice

6. Favourite artist this year?
Justice. I saw them in July and they were AMAZING!

7. Did you make any new years resolutions and if so, did you stick to them?
No.

8. What are you most proud of personally this year (i.e.- something you have done)?
Coming out to 7 people (and counting).

9. Who are you most proud of (can be a famous or non- famous person)?
My mum. Or Barack Obama

10. Did you have to learn any hard life lessons in the past 12 months?
Life is a b*tch and then you die.

11. Have you had any life- changing experiences in 2008?
See question 1.

12. Did you do anything you never thought you would do?
I joined EC and came out

13. Did you gain any new qualifications?
Erm... Year 9 SATS?

14. What is your happiest memory from the year?
Either coming out to my aunt or that HUGE party I went to during the summer. That was awesome

15. What was your most stupid incident (drunk stories would be good!)?
Can't think of any right now.

16. What things do you appreciate most in your life at the moment?
My family and friends.

17. What are your plans for xmas/ new year?
I spent xmas with my family and I am hopefully going to a NYE party (!)

18. Are you making any new years resolutions for 2009? What do you hope will be different?
Lose some weight, come out to more people, put some of my songs on Myspace.

19. How do you rate 2008 on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the worst and 10 being the best)?
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20. Will you still be on EC this time next year?
Hell yes :icon_bigg

 

1. The biggest change in your life this year?
Finally after almost 15 years of being lost in the abiss which is my closet, came out to some close friends and colleagues, my brother and my nan told me she knew anyway.

2. What did you do over the summer?
Met my (ex)girlfriend and spent as much time as we could together around work and other commitments

3. How were relationships with girlfriends?
Good while it lasted, will be eternally grateful to her as she gave me the confidence to at least open the closet door and take a few little steps out of it. Thanks Emma X

4. What news story sticks in your mind the most from 2008?
The Ellen and Porta wedding, sparked a discussion between everyone in our house all of whom thought that everyone should be able to express their love for one another in whatever way they choose regardless of their orientation, it gave me the faith that when I eventually sum up the words to tell my folks I'm gay, they'll be cool with it.

5. Favourite song from the year?
Katie Perry - I Kissed A Girl, used it as a way to come out to my brother, singing along to it but changed the line "I kissed a girl an I liked it" to "kiss girls an I do liked it; an the rest of it" took him three goes to hear what I was saying, we laugh out heads off everytime we hear it now.

6. Favourite artist this year?
Impossible to narrow it down to one - I have extremely eclectic taste in music.

7. Did you make any new years resolutions and if so, did you stick to them?
To quit smoking, lasted all of a couple of hours.

8. What are you most proud of personally this year (i.e.- something you have done)?
Finding the key to the closet and opening the door.

9. Who are you most proud of (can be a famous or non- famous person)?
I know this may sound selfish but, myself for the massive progress I've made over the last few months, I'm finally sheding my forever single straight alter ego.

10. Did you have to learn any hard life lessons in the past 12 months?
For every mountain summit you reach you discover the valley on the other side (see Q14)

11. Have you had any life- changing experiences in 2008?
Come out in work, my whole attitude changed for the better, weight lifting was an understatement.

12. Did you do anything you never thought you would do?
Openly flirted with girls while on works night out thanks to Q11

13. Did you gain any new qualifications?
Work in progress, watch this space.

14. What is your happiest memory from the year?
My Nan telling me that me and my (ex)girlfriend make a nice couple, i didn't think she knew (she died a few days later but those happy, smiling, all knowing eyes, that I hadn't seen for quite some time, are going to be something I'll remember for the rest of my life). Thanks Nan, RIP XX

15. What was your most stupid incident (drunk stories would be good!)?
Walked into a concrete piller in work because I was too busy trying to get a better view of a girl that walked past the office, but she was worth it :bang:

16. What things do you appreciate most in your life at the moment?
Good Friends with whom I can be myself

17. What are your plans for xmas/ new year?
New Years Eve I'm going into Liverpool City Centre to watch the firework display to celebrate the end of the Capital of Culture year.

18. Are you making any new years resolutions for 2009? What do you hope will be different?
See New Year Resolutions 2009 thread

19. How do you rate 2008 on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the worst and 10 being the best)?
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20. Will you still be on EC this time next year?
I will be on EC for the foreseeable future, if I can give back some of the great advice I have received, I'll be here as long as necessary as long as EC will have me.

 

1. The biggest change in your life this year?
Probably entering the sixth form in September, after having finished GCSEs.
2. What did you do over the summer?
So much! The best thing was a residential choir course which improved my voice so so much, it'll never be the same.
3. How were relationships with boyfriends/ girlfriends?
Umm, non-existent. What a suprise. Basically, I liked various people, but nothing ever came of it. A couple of boys liked me, which was very new, they never had before. One, I really didn't like so I told him I was 100% lesbian (I figured that was the easiest way to let him down), and the other, well, he still likes me I think :eusa_doh:
4. What news story sticks in your mind the most from 2008?
I suppose the first that comes to mind is the terrible earthquake in China. Or the ongoing catastrophe that is Zimbabwe.
5. Favourite song from the year?
Umm, I don't really keep up with the current charts so I don't have a favourite that was released this year. I've been listening to Michael Jackson a lot, though.
6. Favourite artist this year?
Ditto. I've been listening to loads of stuff, but notably Michael Jackson, Garbage, Namie Amuro, Cream.
7. Did you make any new years resolutions and if so, did you stick to them?
I can't remember, but I think it was to give up picking my fingers. I haven't totally yet, but I have cut down a lot, my fingers are pretty nice now. I'm proud of them.
8. What are you most proud of personally this year (i.e.- something you have done)?
My GCSE drama performance of 'Tristan and Yseult', in which I played the scheming second wife / narrator. We had to direct and arrange the whole thing ourselves, and if I say so myself, it rocked.
9. Who are you most proud of (can be a famous or non- famous person)?
Im proud of my friend Lydia. She got into Oxford university to study medicine. I know she's going to go so so far. I just wish she wouldn't go so far from me :icon_sad:
10. Did you have to learn any hard life lessons in the past 12 months?
Work hard. Sometimes life sucks. You just have to get through those parts.
11. Have you had any life- changing experiences in 2008?
My life is changing all the time, what with being 15. My choir course was pretty life-changing, I'll always remember that.
12. Did you do anything you never thought you would do?
With my Dad, I made a traditional etching and aquatint of a flower. I never thought I would, but after lots of work, voila. And I started learning the organ and even played in a church service. Plus I watched a lesbian sex scene in a film with my Mum, which was, ah, an interesting experience, maybe not one to be repeated :icon_wink
13. Did you gain any new qualifications?
Yes, 11 GCSEs. And f***ing hard work they were too, so glad they're done.
14. What is your happiest memory from the year?
Having fun with Lydia, making a short film and watching movies late into the night. Getting my GCSE results was pretty good.
15. What was your most stupid incident (drunk stories would be good!)?
I am always a paragon of respectability and propriety. Such 'stupid incidents' are absolutely out of my remit.
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16. What things do you appreciate most in your life at the moment?
My family, all my oppurtunities and talents, and being lucky enough to live in a prosperous country with reasonably liberal values.
17. What are your plans for xmas/ new year?
I'll be in Cornwall over New Year. Learning how to use my new mobile phone :icon_bigg , preparing a drama audition and studying Chinese. And watching teh films.
18. Are you making any new years resolutions for 2009? What do you hope will be different?
I think I better make a 'healthy living' resolution. I'm not sure what yet. Have gained rather a lot of puppy fat this year I hope that I'll be more relaxed, less neurotic, more centred, less stressed. Less worry-worry, more happy, in other words.
19. How do you rate 2008 on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the worst and 10 being the best)?
I said 6, there have been lots of great things, but lots of crap too.
20. Will you still be on EC this time next year?
I'm not sure. I hope I will, I probably will, but it depends how busy/neurotic I get and how much time I devote to the internet. Plus, of course, how things go with my sexuality, whether I work it out / accept it more, or whether I neuroticise to death over it. We'll see.

 

1. The biggest change in your life this year?
Relocated my fabulous ass to Germany!

2. What did you do over the summer?
Went to Grad parties, packed up and spent a month in a German classroom learning things I'd already learned

3. How were relationships with boyfriends/ girlfriends?
Omigod... I fell in love, completely and totally. It all soured recently, but I'm positive!

4. What news story sticks in your mind the most from 2008?
Obama being elected. How fuckin' sweet is that?

5. Favourite song from the year?
All Dressed Up in Love - Jennifer Hudson

6. Favourite artist this year?
Katy Perry or Sara Bareilles

7. Did you make any new years resolutions and if so, did you stick to them?
Mmhmm... Fall in love =D

8. What are you most proud of personally this year (i.e.- something you have done)?
Received the CBYX 2008-2009 Scholarship

9. Who are you most proud of (can be a famous or non- famous person)?
My parents!! I'm fully out now and they don't understand nor are they particularly 'happy' but the point is I'm out and they want to understand.

10. Did you have to learn any hard life lessons in the past 12 months?
People change

11. Have you had any life- changing experiences in 2008?
Moving to Germany

12. Did you do anything you never thought you would do?
Haha... the other night Sal and I went crusing for fun here! I never thought I'd go gay crusing 3 blocks from my house in Germany!

13. Did you gain any new qualifications?
Not quite sure I understand... Must be a British thing

14. What is your happiest memory from the year?
I can't say... Meeting Mike was definitely a plus

15. What was your most stupid incident (drunk stories would be good!)?
I hit Mike in the head with a lint roller before I even knew who he was. That was definitely the stupidest thing I did.

16. What things do you appreciate most in your life at the moment?
My health... the fact that I'm surrounded by people who love me... I have 6 new family members =D

17. What are your plans for xmas/ new year?
I've got a bottle of Licor 43 for New Years... That'll be fun!! Oh, and my friend from MI is here, so we'll be meeting!

18. Are you making any new years resolutions for 2009? What do you hope will be different?
I want to stop acting my age and start acting my appearance. And that's good since I look about 4 years older than I am.

19. How do you rate 2008 on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the worst and 10 being the best)?
7... for definitely.

20. Will you still be on EC this time next year?
Oh hellz yes... You'll have to kill me before I get off EC anytime soon

 

1. The biggest change in your life this year?

Going to university. Fending for myself, what with the cleaning, cooking and clothing.

2. What did you do over the summer?

I wasted a huge amount of time worrying over my A level results. I worked as a secretary for a month. I ended up going shopping a great deal, as well as saying goodbye to friends.

3. How were relationships with boyfriends/ girlfriends?

I actually got into a relationship with a real, living, breathing person. And he's totally fantastic, too.

4. What news story sticks in your mind the most from 2008?

Like most people, it'd have to be the whole razmataz of the American elections. Not the actual results, just the whole publicity war between the candidates.

5. Favourite song from the year?

Sex on Fire (Kings of Leon). Until everyone started playing it.

6. Favourite artist this year?

Uh. Joanna Newsom, maybe? She's like a pop musician of the 16th century!

7. Did you make any new years resolutions and if so, did you stick to them?

No, but I probably wouldn't have stuck to it anyway.

8. What are you most proud of personally this year (i.e.- something you have done)?

I finished something I started writing. I got where I wanted to go for uni. It's all good, really.

9. Who are you most proud of (can be a famous or non- famous person)?

Oooh. Another toughie, I'm surrounded with people I'm proud of. Friends, family and distant friends.

10. Did you have to learn any hard life lessons in the past 12 months?

Lots. Some rather practical things like living alone. Some rather sad things about what my family think about me telling the truth.

11. Have you had any life- changing experiences in 2008?

Yuh-huh. Coming out, that sort of thing.

12. Did you do anything you never thought you would do?

Oh certainly.

13. Did you gain any new qualifications?

A levels (Chemistry, Biology, Latin and English Lit)

14. What is your happiest memory from the year?

Ye gads. I don't have the brainpower to sift through all of those good times. Probably something around graduation or something.

15. What was your most stupid incident (drunk stories would be good!)?

Ending up alone, in the middle of a rough part of Hanley (city centre near university), in the middle of the night in my PJ's. Getting back home was interesting that night.

16. What things do you appreciate most in your life at the moment?

I'm young, I'm having a kick ass time with my life and I've met some of the most wonderful people I've ever met.

17. What are your plans for xmas/ new year?

Alas, even boxing day is over now, so that's put and end to Christmas completely. Still, it's a small family event for New Years, then going to a friend's party for the rest of it.

18. Are you making any new years resolutions for 2009? What do you hope will be different?

Uh. Something about self-esteem, maybe? Perhaps something about studing a hell of a lot harder?

19. How do you rate 2008 on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the worst and 10 being the best)?

9.2, it's pretty much the most fantastic year I've had for a long, long time. Still, I wouldn't say it's my best year ever.

20. Will you still be on EC this time next year?

Oh yes. I mean, I've already done the whole coming out thingie already, but still. It's you fantastic people that I love.

 

1. The biggest change in your life this year?
Gosh, well coming out to myself and my friends and family was quite huge, plus bleaching my hair, changing my attitude, and my first pilled up rave
2. What did you do over the summer?
Went to switzerland with my best friend, and went to creamfields (an awesome dance festival in the UK)
3. How were relationships with boyfriends/ girlfriends?
err....were a couple of girls, but it never worked out because i didn't realise that i was gay xD
4. What news story sticks in your mind the most from 2008?
that fuss about the hadron collider, i tend to take the news with a pinch of salt so i don't remember much, Obama was wicked though.
5. Favourite song from the year?
There have been some crackers this year, T.I. and Rihanna, Pendulum - Propane nightmares, Subfocus - Timewarp and Jacks mannequin - crashin
6. Favourite artist this year?
Well my all-time fave is megadeth, but this year i guess maybe pendulum?
7. Did you make any new years resolutions and if so, did you stick to them?
yes but i was off my face on drink and drugs so couldnt even remember them the next day xD
8. What are you most proud of personally this year (i.e.- something you have done)?
sacks of shit hitting massive fans, and me dealing with it very well. A Lot has changed this year, and this time last year i was half the person i am now
9. Who are you most proud of (can be a famous or non- famous person)?
is it wrong to say myself?
10. Did you have to learn any hard life lessons in the past 12 months?
yeahh, but while they sucked at the time, i feel wiser now
11. Have you had any life- changing experiences in 2008?
a couple
12. Did you do anything you never thought you would do?
definitely
13. Did you gain any new qualifications?
nope but i passed my first year of uni
14. What is your happiest memory from the year?
gawsh, probably early january, i felt permanently great, had a awesome bunch of friends and we'd just stay up late, drink, laugh, watch tv and fall asleep over someone's house, i felt very much a part of something beautiful. All came crashing down shortly after the beginning of Feb xD
15. What was your most stupid incident (drunk stories would be good!)?
oh god which do i choose from, accidentally setting my face on fire (hair and eyebrows too) trying to buy ciggies from a pharmacy when i was drunk, falling asleep next to a bin, taking a load of ket and thinking i was haunted and proceeding to run away from myself, nearly getting raped in switzerland (not even joking, but funny in retrospect) seriously the list of drunken antics is endless...
16. What things do you appreciate most in your life at the moment?
dunno, everythings a bit up in the air at the moment and there isn't much stability for me to appreciate
17. What are your plans for xmas/ new year?
xmas is done, and it was lurvely, new years, find a place for me and my dear friends to get shitfaced and party
18. Are you making any new years resolutions for 2009? What do you hope will be different?
maybe a bit more exercise, just to keep the old internal organs from going black.
19. How do you rate 2008 on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the worst and 10 being the best)?
erm...well, it started at an 8, dipped to a 2 and has steadily risen to about a 6 now
20. Will you still be on EC this time next year?
who knows

 

1. The biggest change in your life this year?
Starting this whole "accepting what I am" process

2. What did you do over the summer?
Worked. I prefer to take my vacations when the kids are in school!

3. How were relationships with boyfriends/ girlfriends?
Non-existant.

4. What news story sticks in your mind the most from 2008?
The whole world financial crisis.

5. Favourite song from the year?
Tricky one - I don't listen to much/any pop music - but the new Enya Winter album was excellent...

6. Favourite artist this year?
John Barrowman - for his new single, for the excellent "Making of Me" documentary (which I'm sure there's a thread about) and of course for being Captain Jack in Torchwood... (although Ianto is waaaay cuter ;-) )

7. Did you make any new years resolutions and if so, did you stick to them?
Lose weight. 20lbs gone over the year (not as much as I'd like, but progress all the same)

8. What are you most proud of personally this year (i.e.- something you have done)?
I can't be specific as it's work related.

9. Who are you most proud of (can be a famous or non- famous person)?
Again tricky, but probably the team I work with.

10. Did you have to learn any hard life lessons in the past 12 months?
Yes. Not going into details, but I lost a few friends I thought better of than I should have.

11. Have you had any life- changing experiences in 2008?
See the answer to Q1

12. Did you do anything you never thought you would do?
See Q1 again

13. Did you gain any new qualifications?
No

14. What is your happiest memory from the year?
A weekend spent with a good friend, a weekend of motorsport and themeparks.

15. What was your most stupid incident (drunk stories would be good!)?
Screwing up a friendship. Again, I won't be specific... I f**ked up badly and it's cost me their friendship.

16. What things do you appreciate most in your life at the moment?
Given the current economic situation, the fact that I have a job which looks fairly safe.

17. What are your plans for xmas/ new year?
Christmas, spent with my parents and sister. New Year, nothing much lines up yet.

18. Are you making any new years resolutions for 2009? What do you hope will be different?
Resolutions - just to continue making progress on losing weight and improving my health and fitness. As for different. Maybe this will be the year I stop being single.

19. How do you rate 2008 on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the worst and 10 being the best)?
About a 6.

20. Will you still be on EC this time next year?
Oh I hope so.

 

omg tm 74 u watch torchwood??
anyway, i think captain jack is incredibly sexy-his eyes are mesmerizing lol
and ianto is really cute too

 

Errr... Whoopsie.. =PP

 

1. The biggest change in your life this year?
Coming out to my Father
2. What did you do over the summer?
Worked at a water plant in my city
3. How were relationships with boyfriends/ girlfriends?
Still single, never met anyone
4. What news story sticks in your mind the most from 2008?
Obama winning the presidency
5. Favorite song from the year?
Wave by Antonio Carlos Jobim
6. Favorite artist this year?
Antonio Carlos Jobim
7. Did you make any new years resolutions and if so, did you stick to them?
My New Years Resolution was to try and make lifelong connections, hopefully I did so on here
8. What are you most proud of personally this year (i.e.- something you have done)?
Being brave enough to stand up to my father
9. Who are you most proud of (can be a famous or non- famous person)?
A friend of mine, who is strong enough to help his friends as well. (Ty EC for letting me meet him )
10. Did you have to learn any hard life lessons in the past 12 months?
That not everyone is accepting of me
11. Have you had any life- changing experiences in 2008?
I have had to rely on my own well of courage, where as I usually have my friends to help me out
12. Did you do anything you never thought you would do?
Actually yes, I was more open about myself than I usually am.
13. Did you gain any new qualifications?
Nope
14. What is your happiest memory from the year?
Finding EC
15. What was your most stupid incident (drunk stories would be good!)?
I was wearing steel toed boots and kicked a pole when I was angry.
16. What things do you appreciate most in your life at the moment?
My wonderful friends
17. What are your plans for xmas/ new year?
To try and keep my friends close
18. Are you making any new years resolutions for 2009? What do you hope will be different?
I just hope that I will finally have the connections that I have always wanted, and I am finding them out slowly but surely.
19. How do you rate 2008 on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the worst and 10 being the best)?
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20. Will you still be on EC this time next year?
Hopefully Yes!

 

1. The biggest change in your life this year?
Started coming out to friends and some cousins. Went to my first gay bar and spent 4 months living in Eastern Europe

2. What did you do over the summer?
work, work and more work.

3. How were relationships with boyfriends/ girlfriends?
Didn't have any in 2008.

4. What news story sticks in your mind the most from 2008?
Greece riots, because I was in the middle of them.

5. Favourite song from the year?
"Poker Face: by Lady Gaga

6. Favourite artist this year?
SMDB

7. Did you make any new years resolutions and if so, did you stick to them?
No, I failed obviously.

8. What are you most proud of personally this year (i.e.- something you have done)?
Accepting that I'm bi and attempting to overcome things I've always wanted to do.

9. Who are you most proud of (can be a famous or non- famous person)?
Wanda Sykes

10. Did you have to learn any hard life lessons in the past 12 months?
Some people just want to screw you, in more ways than one.

11. Have you had any life- changing experiences in 2008?
Everyday.

12. Did you do anything you never thought you would do?
Coming out process.

13. Did you gain any new qualifications?
Coffee...can make any coffee bar drink I want...yay Starbucks.

14. What is your happiest memory from the year?
Going to Paris- shout out to my friend Janvier.

15. What was your most stupid incident (drunk stories would be good!)?
Blacked out my third day in Greece, not so good, apparently I got sick in a toaster oven.

16. What things do you appreciate most in your life at the moment?
friends

17. What are your plans for xmas/ new year?
Christmas is over, my plans for New Years in NYC went through, so I might be spending it alone.

18. Are you making any new years resolutions for 2009? What do you hope will be different?
Become a happier person.

19. How do you rate 2008 on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the worst and 10 being the best)?
4

20. Will you still be on EC this time next year?
I hope so.

 

1. The biggest change in your life this year?
College probably - though accepting myself as gay will probably be the bigger one in long term retrospect.


2. What did you do over the summer?
hung out at senior parties, said a short term farewell to friends


3. How were relationships with boyfriends/ girlfriends?
well i havent had a relationship with any guy - but im not exactly out yet either
tho i did have to fend of a girl(we're now close friends)

4. What news story sticks in your mind the most from 2008?
proposition 8 passing was a big one...
a lot of the articles from tibet were big ones for me as well


5. Favourite song from the year?
handlebars followed closely by viva la vida

6. Favourite artist this year?
the flobots

7. Did you make any new years resolutions and if so, did you stick to them?
cant say i remember if i made any

8. What are you most proud of personally this year (i.e.- something you have done)?
accepting myself


9. Who are you most proud of (can be a famous or non- famous person)?
ahh...well in terms of "most proud" it would be my brother and sister

10. Did you have to learn any hard life lessons in the past 12 months?
not so far...although volunteering at a nursing home has definitely made me grateful for my grandmothers health

11. Have you had any life- changing experiences in 2008?
loads

12. Did you do anything you never thought you would do?
hmm....not so far

13. Did you gain any new qualifications?
high school graduate?

14. What is your happiest memory from the year?
oh wow...that ones hard. this will probably sound cheesy, but almost anytime i am meeting new people, experiencing new things, or spending time with friends or family i am truly happy. But i guess my fondest memory was just sitting down with my grandma and talking with her about life.


15. What was your most stupid incident (drunk stories would be good!)?
mmmm....that ones hard. probably talking about how great this donut place was going to be, taking my international friends who were not used to that much sugar, and then it turning out terrible. or possibly...riding around campus in a wheelchair.

16. What things do you appreciate most in your life at the moment?
family, friends and God. I might complain, but I appreciate every moment I have with them.

17. What are your plans for xmas/ new year?
meeting with family - still are. nothing for new years though

18. Are you making any new years resolutions for 2009? What do you hope will be different?
i have several but probably the biggest are coming out entirely by summer and becoming less pessimistic in how i see myself

19. How do you rate 2008 on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the worst and 10 being the best)?

8 - it was definitely one of my better years.

20. Will you still be on EC this time next year?
planning to.

 

1. The biggest change in your life this year?
Probably becoming so comfortable with myself that I grew a spine and learned to stand up for myself

2. What did you do over the summer?
It's summer now! I'm in New Zealand! Having an Awesome time!

3. How were relationships with boyfriends/ girlfriends?
Definitely lacking, in fact, non existant

4. What news story sticks in your mind the most from 2008?
The murder of Britt Lapthorne - I didn't even know her and I cried when they showed her memorial on the news.

5. Favourite song from the year?
Bubbly - Colbie Callait

6. Favourite artist this year?
Matchbox twenty/Butterfly Effect

7. Did you make any new years resolutions and if so, did you stick to them?
Work out who I am. Who I am is different to what I am.

8. What are you most proud of personally this year (i.e.- something you have done)?

I passed maths!!!!

9. Who are you most proud of (can be a famous or non- famous person)?
I'm most proud of my brother - although he's been a royal fuckface for 18 of the last 24 months, he's started to make the right decision. He's decided to switch schools next year.

10. Did you have to learn any hard life lessons in the past 12 months?
Yes. Friends are the family you choose, and if they don't choose you, it hurts like a bitch.

11. Have you had any life- changing experiences in 2008?
My first trip over seas is pretty lifechanging - I have the bug now.

12. Did you do anything you never thought you would do?
Yes. And NO i'm not going into it.

13. Did you gain any new qualifications?
I gained my Level Two First Aide Certificate, and began my 2 year Bartender's Traineeship.

14. What is your happiest memory from the year? The day I realised that my new friends accepted me completely and loved me despite my flaws.

15. What was your most stupid incident (drunk stories would be good!)?
*blush* welllllll....
last saturday - got very very drunk, got convinced to try marijuana - and discovered the hardway that the two substances don't mix. felt the bubble around my head while I was hallucinating and was thoroughly annoyed when my friend T put an imaginary house on it and popped it. I also thought the car was breathing and coming to get me. then thought someone next to me was T when T had in fact been gone for several hours.

16. What things do you appreciate most in your life at the moment? My friends and the fact i'm lucky enough to travel.

17. What are your plans for xmas/ new year?
spending New Years in Nelson- then going home on the Fifth.

18. Are you making any new years resolutions for 2009? What do you hope will be different? I hope to live life a little more voraciously and to do well in school.

19. How do you rate 2008 on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the worst and 10 being the best)? about an 8. there were a few glitches but it's gone pretty damn well.

20. Will you still be on EC this time next year? Hopefully! I love it here and it's a great way for me to be able to help other people, it's just unfortunate that as I progress thorugh school and work, that I lose more of my time that used to be spent here.

 

Well i know very few people will actually read this lol, but it was actually very interesting and almost cathartic (big words!) for me to do

1. The biggest change in your life this year?
I guess its pretty obviously gotta be the coming out. This time last year I wasn’t out to anybody. These days I am out to *counts* 10ish people, which constitutes everyone who I want to know at this stage. So that’s all gone well. And I acquired an amazing best friend who I love very very dearly.
2. What did you do over the summer?
Ummm, spend time with my boyfriend ,go on hols, get dumped, cry, go to the Reading festival (that’s a music festival for those that don’t know) and have possibly the 3 best days of my life!, then finally went to Washington dc which was pretty awesome, distracted me from the fact id recently been dumped lol.
3. How were relationships with boyfriends/ girlfriends?
Well I met a guy, who I’ve been at school with for 4 years without talking, at a party. We hit it off pretty much straight away. We progressed to going out. Went out for nearly 5 months, he dumped me. So from nothing, to very good, to very bad lol.
4. What news story sticks in your mind the most from 2008?
Well I suppose the only contender has to be the election of Obama.
5. Favourite song from the year?
Well this is bloody impossible, 1 song from a WHOLE YEAR!?!
Recently I loved ‘Human’ by the Killers, on my 17th bday I saw Lightspeed Champion live, dry lips by him would have to be up there. One of Kids/time to pretend by MGMT would be in there. Daddy’s Gone by Glasvegas is amazingly emotional and was amazing live. The Age of the Understatement by The Last Shadow Puppets is amazing too. OK ill stop there I could write forever! So much good music in 08.
6. Favourite artist this year?
Im gonna share this between 2 bands I saw at the Reading Festival. Firstly as mentioned above, Glasvegas. It was a choice between Tenacious D and Glasvegas. Me and my friend chose Glasvegas,and ive never been so happy to make a decision before. Nearly everyone was at Tenacious D so we were amoung the few there. It was one of the most atmospheric gigs ive ever seen. A measure of how good it was is that the crowd carried on singing Daddy’s Gone for 10mins after they had finished the gig. You either love them or hate them methinks,so youtube them,you might love them!
7. Did you make any new years resolutions and if so, did you stick to them?
Hmm I don’t think I did, but if I did I almost certainly broke them!
8. What are you most proud of personally this year (i.e.- something you have done)?
Getting full marks in 2 of my 3 AS level Geography exams,and only dropping 4 marks in the other one.
9. Who are you most proud of (can be a famous or non- famous person)?
My bezzie for always being there for me everytime ive needed since I met her.
10. Did you have to learn any hard life lessons in the past 12 months?
‘There are many many fish in the sea, but they don’t all want to be caught’. Ive learnt that lovers come and go, but best friends are priceless.
11. Have you had any life- changing experiences in 2008?
I suppose being in a relationship, then getting dumped. Neither had ever happened to me before, so I suppose they’re fairly life changing lol.
12. Did you do anything you never thought you would do?
I wore eyeliner and mascara.
13. Did you gain any new qualifications?
A-grade AS levels in Biology Geography and Spanish, and a B in Chemistry.
14. What is your happiest memory from the year?
I spent a week in paris with my boyfriend, which was amazing,but memories of him are tainted negatively by how much it hurt when it ended.
So it would have to be when me and my bezzie spent the last day of summer,under blue sky and warm sun, relaxing on the grass by the river.
15. What was your most stupid incident (drunk stories would be good!)?
After not being let into a bar because I didn’t have ID, I snuck around the side entrance and went in. The stupid part was to walk straight past the same bouncer and get chucked out again and given a intimidating talking to!
16. What things do you appreciate most in your life at the moment?
I know she has come up a lot, but without doubts my best friend.
17. What are your plans for xmas/ new year?
Xmas has been, not sure about new year,but im sure some drinking will be involved!
18. Are you making any new years resolutions for 2009? What do you hope will be different?
I’m going to try and be more self confidant and put myself down less.
I hope to find love (don’t we all) that doesn’t end up with me being hurt severely.
19. How do you rate 2008 on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the worst and 10 being the best)?
Well this is difficult. Firstly I gained a boy friend, but then I also lost him, so that was a very big negative. On the positives I came out to my friends and have a very very close best friend. So I suppose id give it a 7,a lot of good things have happened, enough to make it a 10, but one bad thing which hurt a lot also happened, so ill give it a 7!
20. Will you still be on EC this time next year?
I would have thought so, though probably less regularly as I will be at university this time next year! That is seriously scary…

 

1. The biggest change in your life this year?
Accepting myself and coming out to a few people.

2. What did you do over the summer?
Work and the most awesome art camp ever.

3. How were relationships with boyfriends/ girlfriends?
Nonexistant and terrible, respectively.

4. What news story sticks in your mind the most from 2008?
Obama

5. Favourite song from the year?
N/A

6. Favourite artist this year?
Regina Spektor <3

7. Did you make any new years resolutions and if so, did you stick to them?
Uhh... I don't remember So, no.

8. What are you most proud of personally this year (i.e.- something you have done)?
Leaving my comfort zone completely to go to a new, and much more mentally challenging school.

9. Who are you most proud of (can be a famous or non- famous person)?
*shrug*

10. Did you have to learn any hard life lessons in the past 12 months?
Nothing that I didn't already know.

11. Have you had any life- changing experiences in 2008?
Acceptance of my sexuality.

12. Did you do anything you never thought you would do?
Went out with a girl :/

13. Did you gain any new qualifications?
Yeah, I guess. More work experience.

14. What is your happiest memory from the year?
I hate "favorite" questions, so N/A.

15. What was your most stupid incident (drunk stories would be
good!)?
Read my blog (if you dare).

16. What things do you appreciate most in your life at the moment?
The internet. And chocolate <3

17. What are your plans for xmas/ new year?
Had a family Christmas (xmas is a pet peeve of mine) and I will hopefully have a New year's celebration with friends.

18. Are you making any new years resolutions for 2009? What do you hope will be different?
Nope. I hope I can come out completely by next December.

19. How do you rate 2008 on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the worst and 10 being the best)?
9, since I don't know if I've had better years, but I don't think it could be the best.

20. Will you still be on EC this time next year?
Yes!

 

(*hug*)

 

I felt the same about doing mine. It's a chance to stop and reflect on the last year, where I was at the start and end, and how the events of the year shaped the outcome.

And yes I did read yours, and all the others posted here.

 

I said 3.

1. The biggest change in your life this year? I started Driving.

2. What did you do over the summer? Saw friends sometimes

3. How were relationships with boyfriends/ girlfriends? Each one was different and short lived.

4. What news story sticks in your mind the most from 2008?

5. Favourite song from the year? TOO MANY

6. Favourite artist this year? Dunno.

7. Did you make any new years resolutions and if so, did you stick to them? Can't remember....hahah.

8. What are you most proud of personally this year (i.e.- something you have done)? Getting into 4 colleges

9. Who are you most proud of (can be a famous or non- famous person)? Rachel.

10. Did you have to learn any hard life lessons in the past 12 months? "With each broken heart we should become more adventurous"

11. Have you had any life- changing experiences in 2008? Dealing with Break ups (mine and others)

12. Did you do anything you never thought you would do? nope.

13. Did you gain any new qualifications? Don't think so?

14. What is your happiest memory from the year? meeting Taylor.

15. What was your most stupid incident (drunk stories would be good!)? missing a first kiss with someone. (I still don't believe how oblivious i was)

16. What things do you appreciate most in your life at the moment? Friends&Family&Health.

17. What are your plans for xmas/ new year? um family and friends: parties.

18. Are you making any new years resolutions for 2009? What do you hope will be different? To be really interesting, my look.

19. How do you rate 2008 on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the worst and 10 being the best)? 3

20. Will you still be on EC this time next year? Hopefully!!!