I'm Not The Only One

Yesterday Leonie and I presented on the new genre in autobiography known as blogging. Do we share everything online? Are we obliged to have an agreement of full disclosure with our readers, in an online diary such as my own blog? Do we have to write in a literary style such as the author wishes from all online journals or blogs? Is everything we write truthful and if it isn't is that ok? Do we need rules in blogging? Or is this the place for our freedom?

All these questions and more were discussed with our classmates. I showed this blog to them as well, at first hesitant at the idea until I realized that was a bit ridiculous. I've decided to write these things AND post them online for anyone to find. So I showed my blog to the class and accepted the fact that everything I decided to post is already out here and it could be a matter of time before anyone found it anyway. But the biggest influence from our presentation for myself is that I'm back here blogging again!! It's been way too long (again) but as my friend Ibby said to me the other day: "You don't break promises to your friends right? So why would you break them to yourself?"

So here I am again, trying to unbreak (that's not a word and I apologize to Ms McNeill...) that promise I make to myself a few times a year that this time I will keep up with blogging. What the content of this blog will be? Who knows, but it'll be about things I experience as a student but mostly as myself. Dreams, aspirations and hopes will come by. I'm now over halfway done with my undergraduate degree and it makes me think about what I want to do with the rest of my life, where I want to go and how I want to get there.

For now I am going back to my homework despite wishing I wouldn't have to and could just get started on that "rest of my life" bit that I dream about daily. But for the foreseeable future I really am enjoying my university life and am happy with where I am. This weekend I am back in Apeldoorn for three days. In an empty house but it has an amazing sofa, bed and bathtub which I missed insanely. Although I do enjoy living in my lovely apartment in Middelburg, I am glad to be somewhere else for a few days after having been there for over 5 weeks without leaving. Sometimes it's nice to rest somewhere else and put all the stress and worries into perspective.

If anyone reads this, I hope you are well and have a great weekend!

Unrelated image but throwback to the past winterbreak and my trip to Singapore! Post about this will follow soon!

Relax My Beloved

I haven't posted a new blog in a long time because it has been so busy with school work. Final exams start in one month so I have been really busy with preparing for those. Although I don't need a certain amount of points for my college I still want to do the best I can so it is quite stressful. I am trying to relax more because like I said I don't need a certain number of points and doing my best is really all I can do.

We had spring break this past week but for the majority of the week I was studying. Of course I also hung out with some friends and that was really nice! I also started watching a TV show called "Face Off". It is kind of like Project Runway but different. The participants are special effects make up artists and they get challenges and have eliminations etc. It is so cool to see what they can do!

Original can be found here.

We only have 12 "real" days of school left. I'm really excited to go to college but it's scary that high school is almost over! Before we all leave we have some fun things going on as a class, we are going to the great wall for a group photo, we have a senior breakfast, we will have a senior assembly and after exams we are going on a "China studies" (camp) trip to Guilin. It'll be really fun to hang out with friends and as a class without people applying to college and studying. Graduation is happening at the Confucius Temple and I've seen photos from previous years and it looks so wonderful! High school is almost over!
I'll try to post more frequently but with exams coming up I can't promise anything :( After exams I will for sure be able to most more and I'm excited to be able to post things (both positive and negative) about the process of going to college and post high school life!