This post comes to you from Borgo San Lorenzo, a small town just outside Florence in Italy, and it's beautiful! I'm currently on an exchange over my summer holidays and am loving every minute of it, it's been great immersing myself in another culure and let's you appreciate the differences that exist in the world.

I hope that everyone has had a fantastic New Year! (Buon Anno Nuovo, in Italian!) I also thought I'd take the time to say that I hope that everyone is proud of everything that was achieved in the last year. Although I know that we are still a long way way from achieving all of the Millennium goals, and as we approach the halfway mark for the target of 2015 it seems that we have to be even more energetic in our effort to mobilise governments to come through on the promises they made in 2000. But after receiving a Millennium Campaign e-mail for the start of the new year, it stressed the importance of being proud of the achievements made so far and using them as our inspiration for doing even more.

I hope that everyone has a safe and fruitful 2007, may it be a year for even bigger and better things!

Peace/ Pace

Hilary