2009

and so we have reached the end of the year. 365 days since 2008. la fin d'année; 今年の終わり; el final del año; Ende des Jahres. jahres, "yas" - don't just you like the way the Germans pronounce it?

2009. a year of tennis courts and wind tunnels. a year in which i met K, got my GTI, hosted G for exchange, finished the thesis, applied for a North Korean visa, completed my DALF C1, climbed Kalapattar, graduated, got promoted to CPT, went monkey hunting with A, ran a couple more races and triathlons, sat through countless polygraph tests, got hooked on Murakami, spoke to Simon and Tsonga in Bangkok, revisited ZoukOut, saw S a lot more regularly, was Macvangelised, and picked up salsa.

the end of things and the start of others. it was not a good year, but not a particularly bad one either. i guess things probably worked out the best they could given the circumstances.

the countdown starts again tomorrow! watch out 2011!