The 3 Year Itch

I’m starting to wonder if the number three has a special meaning in my life. At home I’m the youngest of three, but this isn’t something like Charmed and the ‘Power of Three’ and fighting demons. Three has always had a strange influence on my Schoollife *sigh* :oops:

When I was young enough to go to Elementary School after two years of Kindergarten, my teacher didn’t want me to go to Elementary School. She thought I was still too childish and needed to ‘play’ a little more. Of course my mom thought I was a bright kid and didn’t need to play at all, I had to start learning how to read and stuff! So getting to the third year of my schoollife was kinda hard. My mom decided to switch schools and I simply went to ‘group 3′ or ‘class 1′ of Elementary School.

During High School I did pretty well and studied hard. I even studied Latin and Greek, but during my third year in High School it all went wrong. I was held back a year and decided to drop Latin and Greek. I always wanted to be an archaelogist or Egyptologist, but without Greek I had to change my plans. I decided to look at one of my other interests: contemporary Japan and the Japanese Youth Culture or Popular Culture. When I turned 16 it was decided, after finishing High School I was going to study Japanese at Leiden University!

I graduated High School on my 19th Birthday, yup the exact same day. I couldn’t be more happy, because finally I could begin my study at Leiden University. I waited three years for this moment! Everything went pretty ok, until now… I’m currently a third year student Japanese lanuage and culture at Leiden University. A dream come true, but small cracks appeared during the final part of my second year and it seems these cracks are about to tear it all apart.

I’ve decided to change studies. I already thought about nog getting a Master degree at Leiden U, but one in General Management at the University of Rotterdam. But I found out I so lack the maths skills *sigh* Change of plans! So I thought long and hard about it, it all depended on my Master degree… If I planned on going in another direction in the end… and Business & Management wasn’t an option anymore… I had to change everything now! :neutral:

After three years I’ve decided to quit Japanese and study Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam. Why? Although I love to learn Japanese and learn more about the Japanese Culture, the study didn’t really satisfy me. I wanted to learn more about contemporary Japan, popular culture… and maybe if I got to getting a Master degree I could’ve done loads of research and write a thesis. But in the end I felt I wasn’t really learning ’skills’. Ok I would be able to speak Japanese and analyze things, but … *ugh*

Guess the ‘3 Year Itch’ got to me, again. There are loads of factors that made me decide to quit my study. It’s not only personal, but also how things are going at Leiden U. I still have to talk to my study coördinator and let her fill me in what’s going to happen with all of my results. Maybe I’ll finish my Bachelor degree another time :shock: I also talked to my parents and although my mom was pretty shocked, after I managed to convice them I was serious about it, the told me to go for it :D

Well enough about that, sorry for the long post!

Are you up for the challenge?

I’ve added another challenge: ‘Read 12 Books in 2006′, it’s actually a piece of cake if you love to read books. But if you want to brush up your reading skills and want to start nice and easy, it could be fun to join! Feeling up for it? Head over to the ‘challenges‘ and take the challenge :cool:

In Diary on April 2nd, 2006 | 5 Comments