It's been a year!

I started blogging exactly a year ago. Looking back at the time that passed by since then, I have doubts if blogging had any point at all. Of course sometimes it was very good to write things off my chest, but the entries I post are always far from complete. They reflect on things that happen to me only from one or two aspects. Anyway, I still think it has more pro's than contra's, so I'll keep blogging for a while.

This time, again, I won't promise anything for the New Year. I'll do my best to make the best out of everything that 2007 brings. My plans so far are:

• Traveling to Japan again in August, but this time 4 other Buyu will accompany me. Tho, I have no pale-lilac idea how I will get the money for this trip.
  
• Working hard on making up with all the missing things that I need to know at my new rank. Lots of private practice with RI, B and others, in addition to the regular trainings as well. I gave a year to myself to make up with the technical requirements of the first few "bb" levels.
  
• Not making the new training group. My former instructor will have to leave the prospective group around spring, so it means that I should take over the whole group around March. I am not ready for that yet. Not because of the personal part of the thing - I know how to direct people, I could even manage the dojo - but because first I need to polish my own knowledge in order to pass on any bit of it to anyone. I can't pass on something that is not entirely mine yet.
  
• Finding a job abroad, somewhere in Europe probably, but if I would be offered a job, I would not throw away the idea of working in Canada, the States or in Japan either. One thing is sure: I am leaving this country by January 2008 the latest. Cs. and me agreed that I go first and prepare the place for him too, but we also agreed that the time I spend abroad without him will be a great opportunity for me to be alone and to think over what I want or do not want. That'll be a retreat for me that I've been waiting for so much. And we'll see if the two of us are meant to stay together or not. I feel in my guts that it will be the best timing for me to go for this "retreat" at long last.

So these are my plans roughly. And many more smaller are in my pocket, some of which are of personal nature and concerns only one or two people, so excuse me for not publishing them :)

I truly hope all of us will manage our lives well in 2007. Probably significant things are to come, as there was a relatively strong and loud earthquake an hour ago, here, at the back of beyond, where we got used to quakes only in the "Great White Ware Bowl" after a good bean-goulash :-D hehe . The intensity was 4.1 by the Richter scales and the center was here, 10 km's away. There was a similar one in Hungay in 1956 and a few months later the revolution erupted. I wonder what this one is for.

Anyhow, I wish you all my dear readers a Happy New Year, and a very lucky and prosperous year of 2007.
And as always: if you need someone to listen, a shoulder to cry on, someone to help when no one else can / wants, I am here for you, do not forget that! ;-)

B.Ú.É.K!