Goodbye 2016, hello 2017

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Hey,

Before I start I just want to say my apologies for not keeping up with blogging and allowing the importance of I used to see blogging has slightly faded. However in 2017, I am definitely going to make sure I give myself time to blog and use this page as a memory bank to store everything I have done so a bit like a diary but on the internet lol!

Right lets get onto the reason why I wanted to blog today, as we all know its coming to end to 2016 and just wanted to blog about my highs and lows of this year. I don't know about my readers but for me it has been a massive year for me, so much has changed I have realised what my heart was set on doing for the rest of my life (childcare) wasn't the best path for me. I realised that I wasn't able to go into a childcare field job as I felt that I couldn't do all of the tasks that childcare required me to. So I fell out of love with childcare and realised that I wanted to do something around customer service...

This was when I had my trial days at National Star College and I absolutely loved it, thinking back to that week I think I defiantly made the right decision because now I'm a student there I am having the best time. I have come such a long way in just a little time of being there.  It has been the best opportunity for me to be more independent and learn things that I never thought I would be able to do like making myself a cup of tea to changing my bed or learning how to get to and from town and learning all of the domestic tasks that will help me in the future. I really love being independent and enjoying the feeling of doing it myself.

I have come so far with making friends and at the moment I feel like I have the best group of friends that I ever had and I love the fact that all of my friends has a disability. I feel I have the best friendship group at the  moment is because we all understand each other and it allows us to build on a friendship as we have so much in common and we can help each other through things. I haven't ever been as happy I am right now being friends with all of these wonderful people.

I just wanted to mention  thank you to my mum, dad, all of my family/ my boyfriend Victor and friends for helping me to have such an amazing year. Pushing me to have a great year and going for everything I wanted and encouraging me to do things that I didn't want to do, but I have achieved so much more than I expected to with thanks to everyones help and support. Since the start of 2016 I have come from strength to strength and I would like to go into 2017 feeling the same way.

Thank you for reading and Happy New Year

Abbie xx

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