2013

明けました！おめでとうございます。

2013, new year, hurrah! And I'llgive you the pleasure (lol, = NOT) of seing my first "meia de leite", or latte, whatever you wanna call it, from 2013. Cheers! 

I'm kind of excited to see how this year's going to be. I mean, a lot of things, important things, will be decided. Well, maybe not a lot, but still important. Now that I think of it, 2012 was a particularly difficult year.

But anyway, let's move on to concrete goals.

. pass JLPT1

. pass JBT

. continue improving 

. have more fun 

. decide and enter on a master's degree

Kind of done with concrete goals related to study. If I set those as goals I'll probably be dis encouraged by pressure to accomplish them.

I really don't know how's the future going to be after the first half of the year. 

Going back, or planning to, Portugal in the spring vacations. So hopefully I'll meet again my friends. I want to get back to having breakfast in cafes. If there's one thing I learned in Japan is to cherish friends. I realized that they are way more important to me than I though. Besides meeting them, I want to experiment being in Portugal, knowing I still can come back to Japan. I want to see which is best, and also base my decision on that. 

For the past 2 months or so, when I started realizing more things about myself and about people from obviously different cultures around me, that I've been discovering how my own self works. I'm still not there yet, there's things I still don't understand and still can't control, but I suppose that will come with time. and this, this is one of the reasons why I want to continue in Japan.

Now I'm still on winter/christmas vacations, and I'm kind of bored. more than I expected I would. If I were in Portugal I'd be out everyday going to the mall/cafe with friends.

But anyway, I hope to go back to Portugal for two weeks and then return again to Japan (deep inside, I hope coming back for good) more lively and fresh. It's so weird to say "come back to Japan". It really is.

As I said, I'm gradually improving, and realizing some things that I used to be that I was not because I wanted but just because I had a somewhat closed mind. If I give a deep though about it I could remember, but I'm not into it right now. There obviously still a lot to improve, again, I can't name what, but I know there is. But so far the results are satisfying.

So...2013... 

new year, new me.