Happy new year everyone! It is now 2024 I guess now lol. I know it's going to take a while to get use to writing 2024 instead of 2023 when I write the date, though that happens every new year. It is also a leap year so my birthday is on the 70th day of the year instead of the 69th ugh. Every leap year that I can recall has been quite eventful in my life. In 2020 the pandemic started and ended the world for approximately the next 2 years. 2016 was the year where puberty began for me, I was 8 years old in 2016 so I did have quite an early beginning to puberty I guess. I do have a shitty memory and can barely remember anything from before 2016. An interesting year with many new experiences for me. This was however towards the end of the year, there's nothing wrong with me in that respect lol. The farthest back I have clear memory of would probably be 2018 I guess. 2024 will see me turning 16 years old, the beginning of my life slowly opening up into adulthood. I plan on getting a job this year, I've been waiting until I turn 16 to get one because it will be easier for me to find one for obvious reasons. Also since I live in the USA, I will be able to drive this year. I will be applying for my permit and taking my lessons as soon as I can, and hopefully I will be able to get my license some time in September. Though unfortunately I do not have a car waiting for me and I have no idea when I will be getting one since cars are insanely expensive, including used ones. I know absolutely nothing about cars though, as long as it drives it's fine by me. With 2024 I will be entering my junior year of high school which means that I need to start seriously considering what I'm going to study in college and spend the next half-century to the rest of my life doing. Those may mean the same thing or not but check back here frequently over the next 60 years to find out. I've been considering these 3 fields: Computer Science, Psychology and Linguistics. Computer science because I know it is a very competitive field and I've always loved working with them. I've been considering psychology because being a therapist feels like it would be a good path for me imo. I am already the therapist friend hearing them vent to me and trying my best to understand everything and give them good advice. I've also been considering Linguistics because I love learning more about languages. Just like with computers, I've been interested in languages and the ways we communicate, the sounds, vocabulary, grammar, etc since I was young. I currently speak English at a native level, Portuguese fluently as a L2 speaker, A decent amount of Spanish (mostly from the similarities with Portuguese), A little bit of Mandarin Chinese, and I am currently Learning Finnish and French. I'm learning Finnish because I liked their song in Eurovision last year(Yes that is the reason, go listen to Cha Cha Cha by Käärijä or watch the performance at ESC if you don't live in the USA or can find it reposted somewhere online), and I'm learning French because I have plans to go to Portugal, Spain, and France in 2025 and French is the only language I don't have a decent grasp of. That's really all I have to say, It's 2:22 AM and I probably should go to bed. Thanks for listening to my TED talk, hope you enjoyed, and here's a cookie if you read everything: 🍪. Again, happy new year!