Well, 2007 is upon us, and this is my last evening at home before heading back to Cardiff. 2006 was an interesting year: I think I learned a lot, often the hard way, so it was a bit tough at times, but full of good stuff too, and I think I’m now more at peace with myself than I’ve been in a long time.

I’ve got a lot happening between now and Easter. Here’s a quick run-down:

• First up is a weekend reunion for the Contagious Taskforce team in London! It’ll be good to see some of that great bunch of people again, and hopefully some non-Taskforce Contagiousites as well. I’m looking forward to returning to Contagious next summer as a leader, God willing.
• Then straight on from London to L’Abri, which you might describe as a Christian intellectual community. I’ll be going for a week to spend some time meeting with other Christians and thinking about Christian literary criticism and also what it means for me to be a Christian and a writer.
• id:entity – 5th to the 9th February, Cardiff CU‘s week of events, asking “Jesus: who do you say he is?”
• Cardiff Debating Society Inter-Varsity competition on the 10th February. The final will be open to the public – should be exciting!
• I’m going to China!!!! And I’m just the teensiest, tiniest bit excited, surprisingly enough! Two weeks: 24th Feb to 10th March, visiting Shanghai, Beijing, Xi’an and Wuhan – it’ll be a good chance to practice the Chinese I’ve been learning this academic year.
• And at the end of term, a trip organised by Cardiff Uni’s Anglican Chaplaincy to the Iona Community‘s student week, on the theme “The truth will set you free” – should be interesting!

Also, I’ll hopefully be doing a rather exciting interview for Gair Rhydd, and I’m trying to decide whether or not to run for Societies and Internationals Officer in the Students’ Union elections. There’s also the small matter of my degree. It’s going to be a manic term!