Revised Goals for this Year

It is very natural for people to be overly optimistic with their goals for their future. This is what happens in New Year’s resolutions, in children’s visions of their future selves, even in our perceptions of tomorrow. What I guess I mean to say was that I although I did not consciously write unrealistic goals, I guess I subconsciously expected some sort of shortcoming on my part.
In terms of goals, I still want to reach for the same results, but the 6 things that I want to do to reach these goals should be revised into something that I can manage to accomplish, no matter how busy my week is.

いち Watch children's Japanese cartoons at least 1 hour each week. Because I love watching cartoons anyways, I have been keeping up with this and plan to do so for the rest of the year.
に Listen to a Japanese song once every two days. Again, because I actually enjoy music and searching for new artists, I have been keeping up with this goal as well.
さん Go to a せんせい office hour, at least once every other week, for at least 30 minutes in order to keep track of my progress and figure out any other places that I might need to work on. Although I did not go to office hours enough during the first half of this semester, I believe that I can accomplish this if I prioritize enough.
ご The original goal to find someone to converse with makes less sense since I really do not have enough vocabulary to effectively hone my skills. Instead, I will just focus on going to office hours.
ろくGo to a language table once every 3 weeks for at least 30 minutes! My schedule STILL clashes awfully with the Japanese language table, but maybe if I try to keep ahead of my work, I will be able to find time to do this.

Upon retrospect, the year went by relatively well so far. I finished the whole series of Deathnote, which definitely helped me better grasp intonation and pronunciation of the Japanese language.  One thing that I felt was especially useful was that I would move towards speaking Japanese to teachers and fellow JPN 101 classmates whenever it was possible for me to do so.  In this way, I feel one of my greatest achievements thus far was in confidence in speaking the language.  柴田先生 suggested that I could try speaking to native Japanese speakers among my friends, and if I manage to do that by the end of this semester, I feel like my confidence levels will have progressed very well.