Broadening the Mind.

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."

So, since I finished college in June, I've slowly been developing a huge gap in my life that used to be filled by my full time education. It's not merely a time gap, because I work full time now and barely have enough time to breathe as it is! Then today I began on my university application for 2014 and I read my personal statement from last year... I could barely understand a word of it. I mean, I can read it obviously, but I realised that today I couldn't write a statement nearly as sophisticated as that one. 

I think my intelligence has actually lowered in these past few months and I blame myself entirely. I have been very lazy and I assumed that writing techniques and vocabulary which I had learned in school would just stay with me, but unfortunately that is not the case. So today I have made a step on my long ladder to success by restarting my extracurricular work and research into my real passions - the history, language and cultures of foreign countries. I shall be broadening my mind with great intensity in these next few weeks, because I am determined to keep up the same capability and skill set in both Spanish and German that I left college with.

I actually feel ashamed that I did not realise this earlier. I have always been very academic (it took me ages to remember that that was the correct word, that is how bad the situation has become) and I think that keeping up my own version of education and developing my knowledge is very important for my plan to become extraordinary this year. After all, we aren't able to do anything without learning first! Here is my language blog if anyone is interested, there are things like foreign news articles, quotes and music videos on it for your amusement - sprache0chica.wordpress.com

Yours,

OrdinaryGirl