To end 2008...
Yes, I know I have some backlog to write about. But I'm not sure I'll be able to write anything before the new year, so I'd rather make a last post for the year and then resume activities in 2009.
It's said one shouldn't leave pendencies of one year to the next, but whatever...
Checking which character was chosen as kanji of the year, the one chosen was "change" for reasons like the election of Barack Obama in the US and the global economy crisis; also for examples like Japanese athletes in the Beijing Olympics and scientists who won the Nobel prize.
I think it was a good choice. And it fits my personal experiences during this year too.
From moving to a different apartment, making new friends, watching old ones leave, starting my Master course, going for a round-the-world trip... Guess lots of things changed in 2008 for me. I also changed throughout the year... Going back to Brazil made me realize that better. Still not all changes are of my liking, so I'll do my best to change it again.
... Thinking about it, that kanji could fit almost anyone's point of view of any year. Talk about a general thing. And even though things changed from 2007 to 2008, guess from 2006 to 2007 changes were greater. Ah, well...
But there's a last change just as the year changes (someone noticed that I'm using the word "change" too much in this post?): the new Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement that Brazil will start to implement from 2009. I already mentioned that agreement before, and how some words in Portuguese language will change as an attempt to unify its orthography.
So, from 2009, I won't even be able to say I am fluent in Portuguese anymore... will I?
It's said one shouldn't leave pendencies of one year to the next, but whatever...
Checking which character was chosen as kanji of the year, the one chosen was "change" for reasons like the election of Barack Obama in the US and the global economy crisis; also for examples like Japanese athletes in the Beijing Olympics and scientists who won the Nobel prize.
I think it was a good choice. And it fits my personal experiences during this year too.
From moving to a different apartment, making new friends, watching old ones leave, starting my Master course, going for a round-the-world trip... Guess lots of things changed in 2008 for me. I also changed throughout the year... Going back to Brazil made me realize that better. Still not all changes are of my liking, so I'll do my best to change it again.
... Thinking about it, that kanji could fit almost anyone's point of view of any year. Talk about a general thing. And even though things changed from 2007 to 2008, guess from 2006 to 2007 changes were greater. Ah, well...
But there's a last change just as the year changes (someone noticed that I'm using the word "change" too much in this post?): the new Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement that Brazil will start to implement from 2009. I already mentioned that agreement before, and how some words in Portuguese language will change as an attempt to unify its orthography.
So, from 2009, I won't even be able to say I am fluent in Portuguese anymore... will I?
4 comments:
Change is not always a positive thing but it is important for us to develop as people.it is interesting to look a back at the end of the year to see the path that we have taken over the past 12 months and hopefully see how we have changed...for the better :)
Have a safe New Year!See u in 2009!
Opa, pode deixar que nós aqui no Brasil vamos fazer você ficar atualizado na nossa "mais bela flor do Lácio". Isso é, depois que a gente aprender essa língua nova aí...
Feliz 2009!
igao, esse kanji tb pode ser lido como 'hen', nao pode? entao, ao inves de mudanca, pode ser q esteja mais pra coisa estranha... ahaha! feliz hen-janai ano novo!
Igor, ganhei um "presentinho virtual" e precisava passar para 10 blogs... você foi selecionado!!! Hehehe
Bjinho
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