Yay! It is finally the New Year, a brand-new start. Well for some anyway, some may think of the new year as a fantastic celebration for them to start afresh. Making New Year resolutions for health and happiness, and for some it could just be a time to find new love and rekindle friendships or a new start and a new them. Others, it could just mean another day on the calendar, the same old-same old.
What will come in 2018?
There will be a lot of different Events happening this year so, pay attention! otherwise you will miss the excitement throughout the course of the year. This year the Brexit negotiations will be continuing and for the sports fans, the Winter Olympics (9th -15th February) will kick start the New Year, followed by the Commonwealth Games (4th - 15th Apiril). In June, the FIFA World Cup will be held in Russia.
On May 5th the launch of NASA's In Sight a robotic Mars lander designed to study the interior and subsurface of Mars, which would in turn help scientists to understand the Earth and Solar System history, will be launched to Mars. Also, Mars will make its closest approach to Earth since 2003.
In October, the Europe and Japanese spacecraft will be launched onto the planet Mercury.
NASA's Solar Probe Plus is expected to orbit the Sun and two space tourists will fly around the Moon in a rocket, marking the first time that humans have ventured beyond lowEarth orbit since 1972.
We also have a Royal wedding to look forward to, with the marriage of Price Harry and Meghan Markel.
Why is the New Year so important?
It's important because it's a new beginning and a brandnew adventure for people. Defiantly for young people like teenagers such as myself because we have the world at our fingertips. As we approach adulthood, New Year is a time that we get to hang out with the adults and to be ourselves. A new year, a new age of teen-hood. For some of us to be able to learn to drive, vote for the first time, get our first job, go to College and work on our A levels' and for some, even to be able to get married.
By Rosina Cotton, Carew Academy
