2016年

2016 has officially ended 55 days ago. How was your 2016 going? Was it full of laugh, or the otherwise? Well, of course you had both of it, it's life, anyways (lol). 

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My 2016 was full of memories, good or bad; fun or annoying. But I enjoyed it a lot. In 2016, I started to study English and Japanese in another campus. I made lots of friends. Good friends. Lots of friends and knowledges. I got the highest score for both in English and Japanese club that time. I was really proud of myself, and it motivated me a lot for not giving up on what I love. 

In 2016 too, I got my job training on one of a TV broadcasting station in my hometown. I also enjoyed every single day of it. It was an unforgettable two months experience. I got to study lots about my major, and I got to write and do the reporting in so many cities with everyone in the office. Everyone was very nice and friendly, they helped me a lot with everything. I remember how I always woke up at 8 in the morning, and got back home around 7 in the night. It was really tiring, but since everyone was very nice, I got used to it, and I enjoyed it. 

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My birthday in 2016 was also pretty unforgettable too. It was my first time for getting three messages from someone who I loved the most. I remembered how he sent me a voice message at 10pm (Indonesian time), just because it's already 28th in Japan. In the next two hours, he gave me another voice message, because it's 28th in my country. And in the morning, he called me for ten minutes, just to say the exact thing as last night's, and told me to eat cakes. It was really cute. And in my 21st, I got to celebrate my birthday with my family and friends too. It was the best present I've ever had in 2016. 

In 2016, I think I've made lots of friends, inside or outside my country. Internet is really amazing, isn't it? You can get connected with so many people at once. I got so many gifts from my friends from Japan. They told me that they gave those gifts to motivate me to study Japanese harder. I've told them that I really wanted to quit learning Japanese because the club I used to join in, wasn't available anymore. But then, how nice of them for giving me sweet things and letters of motivation for me to never give up, so we can meet someday in Japan. 

some of gifts that my friends gave to me!

I can't study alone, maybe that's the problem. And then I started to use a social application that can help you to study languages with natives. And by that, I got used to listen to Japanese to talk, and I learnt a lot from them. There are lots of good friends. We exchanged our LINE ids, and they turned out to be friends like siblings. We talked a lot, we laughed a lot, and we learnt a lot from each other. It was really helpful, and also beautiful thing that can be happened by internet.

But of course, not only good things happened. It's life, it has ups and downs. College life was really tiring, especially it's on my 6th and 7th semester already. I remember that I used to be kinda stressed about everything happened in campus. There was so much drama, and it ached my head for almost everyday. Never ending assignments and reports... I almost wanted to quit after my halfway journey. I complained about everything to my mom, my dad, my sister, even some of friends that I really trust. But then, after hearing their supports , I tried to wake myself and kept doing things that had to be done. 

And now the 7th semester has ended. I've never been this happy, especially I got a 4.0 for this semester's GPA. And I also did my first ever JLPT (Japanese Language Profiency Test) on December 2016. It was nerve-wrecking, but I think I already did my best!

my JLPT N5 form

 From that I realized, great things indeed need time. In the end of this semester, somehow my classmates and other friends at campus got along together for all of sudden. It was amazing. How can people suddenly don't want to be apart because of the time limit. As a 8th grader, we had to do our thesis and final projects, and it has to be done by ourselves. 

Even though we know that time is limitless, but we also know that when there's a start, there's also an end. Soon my college life is gonna be over, and suddenly I don't know how to feel. I feel like I'm tired of all of this, but in the other hand, I also don't want to leave my best friends here. They've made so much good memories and stories to be told. As cheesy as it sounds, I love them. I enjoyed the seconds that we've spent, and I'm thankful for meeting them here in this campus. 

And now, since the new year has started and passed for almost 2 months, I have so many wishes and goals that I want to achieve this year. I have to graduate with a great score and get a job soon, so I can go to Japan next year, meeting my good friends there. I really hope that will be true in a good timing! 

So, maybe this is all that I can tell you for now. Once again I'm really sorry for not being able to post months ago. I hope this year too, I can have more time to share my stories to you! 

I'd like to know what you've been through too! Let me know!

Have a great 2017, friends! ♡

Dea