GOAL #1: Read all of the J.R.R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings books.
As much as I dread them, I know they are well written. I know they are good stories and characters. However, much of it was killed during the hype about 10 years ago when the movies came out. During that time I would have read them if it wasn’t for those movies. After all, I read all of the Dune saga in a sitting and began with Game of Thrones. Before my taste in literature changed towards the more feminine side.However, these are a few of the books that are important to my boyfriend. And seeing how most of the books I want to read are not released yet, I decided to start on this challenge to read them all. They are not my sort of stories, but it is quite embarrassing to say you read up to 40 books a year and responding “no” when asked if I have read J.R.R.Tolkien. So these are the 2 reasons for this goal.
GOAL #2: Continue developing my writing skills inclusive of blogging.
I am a very lazy person when it comes to blogging. I blog about once a month if not at all. While in the past I was blogging almost everyday. The difference being that back then I was an invisible teenager relating her life online. That is not the case now, and as such I need to choose my ideas and words carefully. What to share and what not to share. So this limits my daily writing. However, I will write on a weekly basis again. My novel, my stories, books I read, inspirations and ideas. I will write each day in any way and I will write here or the other blog each week.GOAL #3: complete the Dutch language test successfully.
I am inclined to the easy and the lazy version ‘I’ of the test. As I know I can complete it and I have no need for level II in my current employment. Not that I wish to stop my learning process there, but more as to complete the test as requirement and then take my time with more advance levels in the language. However I am also inclined to take the test level ‘II’ as I feel I need to prove myself that I am able to accomplish fluency in the language. At this moment I can hold any kind of daily life conversations in broken Dutch. My goal is to be able to read also Dutch novels to their full understanding. It is not like I hold scientific or philosophical conversations in English or Spanish anyway. Why should I learn to do that in Dutch? I leave that to my English writing.So those are my 3 goals of this year. They are not resolutions. They are goals, something I will be working towards this year. Resolutions are life altering goals. My goals have a dead line, 2016. Except for number #2, which might evolve after 2016 into something else.
