I hope you’re all doing well! I just wanted to give you a quick update and tell you about my plans for 2014! Most of you know this already, but this year could be the most intense year of my life. I thought 2011/12 could be my most intense year when I lived in Japan but I am pretty sure this year will beat everything. I will live in four(!) different cities on two different continents and three different countries. At the moment I have about a month left here in Bonn until I will return to my hometown Berlin for a bit shorter than a month. That means I’ll only see my boyfriend about four weeks this year which sucks ๐
For reference: The skyline of Bonn with the Rhein river / Hackescher Market Irish Pub in Berlin (where you find me often!) / Shibuya shopping district in Tokyo / Gangnam in Seoul
These months here in Bonn passed by so quickly I am pretty sure this year will be just so fast. We have middle of January already! I will be leaving for Japan in exactly 2 months! Crazy, it seems to be so far away still…
I wrote Tokyo but I will actually stay and study at Tsukuba. But I figured none of you might know Tsukuba, so Tokyo it is – it’s only a 45 minute ride with the train to Tokyo so I will be going there a lot! (Ohhh the shopping I’m looking forward to.. and SAKURA. I didn’t think I will be able to see sakura time again in my life.)
But what I am looking most forward to is going to Seoul, South Korea for half a year. I have never been to Korea so this will be the most exciting part of my journey! I am trying to learn Korean since October, but it’s so hard. I hardly can remember a thing and I most certainly cannot speak by myself. I hope I will get better until September! We will have Korean lessons in Japan as well though, which makes me glad. Also, I have a lot of Korean friends who stay either in Japan or Korea atm. I also try to travel, I at least wanna go to Kyoto and Osaka. My friend Federica will be working there in summer so I hope I can visit her! ๐ Oh this will be so exciting. I am a bit afraid and sad to leave my boyfriend after I left him for a year again. So sorry, really. But this is a great opportunity! When I’ll be back in 2015 (how that sounds!) I will be writing my master’s thesis in Berlin ๐
Also, I am happy to think back on 2013! It was a good year, with ups and downs but really good. I had a great year with my boyfriend, we both graduated in summer this year, me with 1,3 in Japanese Studies from university and him with a perfect 1,0 from physiotherapist school! He’s now working in his fathers company, I am doing my master’s course. On the negative side I suffered from a hermniated disk which was painful as hell and I still have some little problems but overall I got really lucky. I had to quit my job at Starbucks but I would have quit anyways in October when I went to Bonn. I met new people and made one friend here in Bonn (I’m a slow one on friends, like real friends, one’s just fine with me ๐ ) and had a good time, a lot of parties and finally started to learn Korean which I wanted to start for a really long time.
So far for my plans and last year! Do you have any plans for the new year? I wish you all a very happy time no matter where you will be and what you will do. You can do it!
Hi there! I’m Sam, instructional designer, freelance illustrator and rainbow girl from Berlin. I make art, travel and conquer the world one rainbow at a time.
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