I managed to put a lot of pressure on myself by weighing the value of my entire six months in Japan on the results of my JLPT results. Even though I learned a ton and had a great experience regardless of what I scored, I figured that passing the JLPT would mean that I surpassed [...]
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To sum up
I’m only a few days away from going home. Most of my family has been reading my blog (they likely made up about 4,000 of my 6,300 total views), but once school starts back up in January, I’m likely to be bombarded with that wonderful question that well-intentioned acquaintances who only realized you were gone [...]
Posted by admin on December 20, 2009
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Leveling up and out
There’s a significantly different feeling between a typical vacation to a foreign country and a long-term study abroad. During my 18 day romp through Europe, there was a ton of stress to get things done and see what you needed to see. Enjoying yourself seemed to take a backseat to checking off a list of [...]
Posted by admin on December 10, 2009
http://henrymatt.com/2009/12/leveling-up-and-out/
JLPT
So, I randomly had 125 hits to this blog yesterday with no referrer (which means people are typing henrymatt.com into their address bar). I have no idea what caused this. The internet is weird. Today was the culmination of a lot of hard work. True, a lot of times I say that I work hard [...]
Posted by admin on December 6, 2009
http://henrymatt.com/2009/12/jlpt/
oh hey
After some long period of time finally gets over, I always hear people say “that sure went fast”. Summers, school years, childhoods. Yes, it’s a period of time that you once perceived as lasting forever, so realizing that it actually has an ending can be shocking, but why do people think it went fast? It’s [...]
Posted by admin on November 30, 2009
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