I'm going to college!!

[Sahara]

After a two-month hiatus I'm finally back online and back to the Ledge... in that time I've been living in horrible fear that I'd miss announcements of a new Mac album - HA! - or Stevie's long-awaited tour of Europe - HA! - or news of the release of Lindsey's new rock album - HA ... oh no, wait. I did miss that.

These have been very exciting times for me... In July I headed off to beautiful Australia for three weeks to celebrate World Youth Day in Sydney. It's a massive Catholic youth festival that takes place every couple of years and about half a million young people descended on the city for a week of prayer and festivities. It was a great experience, even though I'm not Catholic anymore, and you know it's a special sort of journey when you can come home and say you've had your picture taken with a koala, a small crocodile and Cardinal Sean Brady...

After that I had a fortnight's nervous waiting for my Leaving Certificate results... these basically would tell me whether or not I got the college place I wanted. I got straight As in my eight subjects and now I'm off to study Psychology at Trinity College Dublin, which has been my ambition for many years now. I start on the 29th of September and I'm so excited! I'll be leaving home to live in Dublin, which is going to be pretty painful, but I'll be living in a great house with my three best friends (pictured below), so there's a lot to look forward to.

In the meantime, I had my Debs Ball, which is the Irish equivalent of a senior prom ... and a wonderful night was had by all! I always imagined I'd end up wearing something black and flowing and thoroughly Stevie-esque to my debs, but then I found this red number and that was kind of that...!

Please keep me in your prayers over the next few weeks. A lot of changes are about to happen very quickly and I'm relying on the Lord to help me get settled for - hopefully - the best few years of my life.