gap year !!!!
02/06/2026
First of all i want to thank you for clicking here!
You probably found it through my Instagram bio, this is the first blog post on my own website.
I've written on platforms like Tumblr and Substack before, but I thought it would be fun to have a blog that's completely customized the way I want it. Either way, that's not really what I want to talk about today :p
I want to talk about the sort of gap year I've been having this past year and how much it ended up meaning to me !
When I first started university, I always thought gap years made no sense. To be completely honest, I kind of believed that people who took them just didn't want to do anything with their lives. Then a few things happened, and after graduating I wasn't able to jump straight into a master's degree. So I guess I've technically been on a gap year since last June.
I still don't really like the term "gap year" tho. Deep down, I think part of me still sees it as an excuse not to study, which is probably why I dislike the phrase so much.
Anyway, I thought it was going to be awful, but it actually turned into one of the best years of my life. I started learning Japanese again, met so many new friends,Carol, Shun, Maasa, Rodrigo, and many others! I Also completed a postgraduate course, decided that I want to start drawing again, created a YouTube channel, and honestly, did a lot of things I never imagined myself doing back when I started university in 2022.
I mean, those three years were great and I enjoyed them, but I feel like I became a little disconnected from myself. Or maybe it was this year that helped me discover who I really am.
I was about to write that a lot of bad things happened too, but I think I was just trying to force myself to come up with something negative because it feels weird for everything to be good. Like there has to be at least one bad thing, no matter how small. But honestly? I'm really loving this year, and I genuinely don't have anything bad to say about it.
Right now I'm a little hungover because I went out last night with my friends Carol and Rodrigo, and we somehow ended up hanging out with another group of friends too. It was honestly such a fun night lol. Maybe that's why I'm feeling weirdly inspired today.
Anyway, I should probably go clean my room because I left it completely messy before heading out yesterday.
xoxo