I salute your resolution, part 2

I was never much a resolution-maker. Until last year, I never really greeted the New Year with much more than a salute at midnight. But now, as I’m starting to find myself in real-life situations where I’m starting to become the person that I will be for a long time, the notion re-evaluating my attitude, desires and life in general each year seems less romatic and more practical. This year, I have three:

-Talk to people more, both here and abroad

-Fight for what I want

-Be angry less

I salute your resolution

-Be more assertive.

-Hate on Beninese men less. (Although the misogyny gets old fast)

-Learn more local language.

-Learn to how to work on projects using a Beninese timetable. (ie everything will take much longer than I anticipate.)

-Continue to blog at least five times a week.

-Hang out with my neighbors more. In general, even when I’m just at my house, be outside my house.

-Not curse at my students in English as much.

-Complete the Parakou half-marathon. (I have been training before just now, so there is a real chance this will happen.)

-Stay in touch with the people who are important to me.

-Not use up all of my gas making chocolate cakes with chocolate icing.