How subtly hard it is to keep a blog up to date through years...

Yes, years! I started mine in November 2006, which is more than a year and a half ago and I could be wrong but I'd call that years rather than months...

Anyway, I haven't been online very much for decades (that one is a crazy exaggeration, o beloved exaggeration) and even after finally managing to actually do something on Facebook (I spent a year without logging in after subscription ^^'), I have neglected my poor blog, isn't that just cruel ? T_T

My JYPE (Junior Year Program in English) is almost finished... I'll soon have to go back home, hardly in time to look for a place to live in Grenoble during 6 months (despite my desire to meet some people there, I really don't feel like going back to Grenoble >_<).

In a more detailed fashion, I'll take a plane back to France on August 18. Who knows how many days I'll be jetlag-dead. XD

Overall, this year abroad has been very fulfilling, albeit demanding as hell.

I discovered a lot about myself and might even have gained a bit of self-confidence here and there (nothing optimistic, my religion won't allow it ;).

I also improved in a lot of areas, the most obvious of all being Japanese. Here is where I am now :

1. I can understand enough to watch and enjoy movies and anime without subtitles.
2. I can read furigana-empowered mangas without a dictionnary.
3. I can communicate with Japanese people in a variety of situations ranging from first meeting to medical visit.
4. I cannot read most reading material that don't have furigana.
5. I cannot play most video games.
6. I cannot use Japanese websites efficiently (and not at all for many of them).

After only one year spent in Japan, I deem my own progress satisfying, but the problems start here... How do I preserve what I gained through this year ? And how will I go further without the support and motivation I got while in Japan ?

I am no foreteller. I'll do what I can and see where it gets me.

Que sera sera.