Condensed milk March and April

Hello,

Sorry for disappearing last month. My mind was focused on school with the last assignments to hand in and with final exams. So, writing for the blog was not my priority. I want to take a moment to write my highlights for the months of March and April. Without further ado, the highlights of March and April!

Our winter was supposedly coming to an end, but the weather didn’t seem to bring spring. Even though spring was not coming, the weather seemed better with the visit of a friend from Japan. He came to visit Montreal with a friend for a couple of days. We had the chance to meet a few times and chat for a bit. Being social does lift the mood after such a somber winter.

Before coming, he asked me if I wanted something from Japan. First, I answered 何でもいい. Then, I read Shanna’s Japanese books haul and I got the bite for the NO.6 series. Maybe it is more than I can handle (and these are not the only Japanese books I have in my possession :S ) I guess 2015 will be my year of reading. Maybe, I’ll finish a book by the end of the year. Let’s stay positive on that!

Speaking of reading, I manage to read L’art d’écrire by Pierre Tisseyre. It was a book about getting tricks on how to write better and even publish a book one day. One of the tips was translating. Attempting to do write good translation forces you to analyse the source text and to understand how does the target language work to translate efficiently. Another one is reading a lot and this has also been suggested by my teachers. I am always getting a new author to read in a class.

I purchased more books than I usually do last month. But, they could be showed on a separate post ^^

Studying wise, school took over so not much language learning. But, I am still working on getting over this slump Still making slow progress on this.  Making slow progress on both languages and still working on mastering French a bit much.

I started to work on decluttering my environment with the KonMari method. I purchased the electronic version of her book and read quickly to get the concept of the method. I still need to give more time into the process to be completely done with my life cleaning. I noticed I have put myself on a shopping ban until I am done with the cleaning. I guess I need to assess what I have in my belongings before determining what I need.

That was the start of spring for me. I will work on posting my book haul next.

またね～

先年日本に行ったね～

時間がたつのが恐ろしく速い。