A Review of the year

I am slowly getting ready for Limmud, printing off hand outs and thinking about what I'll need while there, packing and the like.  I am also cleaning my room a) because it really need it I have been run off my feet these past few weeks and months and also because b) its what I nearly always do when there is stuff on my mind.
Don't worry nothing heavy or dramatic is happening just all the normal pressures of the life of a rabbinical student.  But it did feel like now was a good time for a 'review of the year post'. Albeit that the beginning of the year feels so very long ago that I can barely remember it.  I do remember that I was very tired and rather fed up. But looking back I learnt a lot JCM was also a good experience and something of a highlight and then there were the ending of the year; with Kol Bo and the rush to do essays.
Then I had the all too brief summer with visits up north and family time.  Then there was the start of this academic year which of course starts with the High Holy Days.  This went so well this time around and the community was really welcoming it and made me feel like everything had gone well.
After this came the long never-ending fall semester.
Things learnt: Lots more Hebrew and text ability. (I was really surprised and pleased that I could read Radak unseen.) This certainly would not have been the case even at the end of the second year, and I know it was not the case last year.
I also think that because of practice; and my extra classes with CM my skills as a sermon giver have come on enormously.
I have also been out a couple of times, which for me is a lot. And I hope it continues next year. So hears hoping next year will also be a year of growth and change (almost certainly yes) and hopefully less stressful and more relaxing.