My way to journal

Just a few more days and two presentations to go until I can finally relax. The summer holidays are so close and I’m so glad to finish this semester. To celebrate the (near) end of the mess called finals week, I visited a good friend and we cooked dinner together. We had a great time throwing together all the food we like and dance to old One Direction songs afterwards. Moments like these remind me how precious time spent with friends is and how much I value having fun with them.

[entry from the 27th of June 2018]

If there is one thing that I’m never ever gonna miss from uni, it is having classes on the weekend. They totally mess up my sense of time and take the last of my free time. And sometimes I wonder how I still manage to power through and prepare for my presentations, get good grades and somehow get a half-decent amount of sleep. Especially when your group members mess up because they weren’t paying attention and now you just have to hope for the best. 

[entry from the 22nd of June 2018]

One thing I noticed during the last couple of days, is that when I think I’m doing well, reality hits me and I see that I actually am a mess. I almost forgot to got to my shift one day or forgot my phone at a bookstore. And I don’t really have time to pause and relax since finals are coming up and work is piling up. But I know this stress will all be ocer soon and I will be having more fun again and a better state of mind.

[entry from the 15th of June 2018]

Hey everyone! 

I’m starting to catch up on my blogposts since I haven’t blogged in a while. And with “a while” I mean five whole months.  😅 So please don’t be suprised by the sheer mass of summer-related posts that will be posted in the following days/weeks. I’m trying really hard to get back on track, but I gotta start somewhere, right? At least I managed to write my journal entries until the beginning of October, so yeah.. I’m getting there. Slowly, but surely.

Thank you for your patience  💕

While I'm still looking for a new journal (I'm probably gonna go for an A5 notebook by @leuchtturm1917 ), my travel diary is coming together. I used some new tape on these pages and I'm more than happy with it. 😊💙 However, I desperately need to work on new blogposts - otherwise I will never be able to catch up on my stuff completely. 😅

Even though it might not seem like I've been doing anything at all lately, I've actually been quite productive. Uni has been keeping me busy and I managed to catch up on my dreams and wrote them down in this little dream diary. I have the weirdest dreams sometimes, but I like to go back and try to find a meaning behind them (there rarely ever is one). Do you remember your dreams? If so, did you ever thought about writing them down before they get lost again? I can only encourage you to try it! 📚☁️

Hey everyone, I'm not sure what to tell you. For months my pages have been waiting for me to write on them, but for multiple reasons they still look like this - empty. I'm not happy about my lack of creating, neither about the way my feed looks or how I neglected my blog. So here's to a new approach! Today is the day (or the evening) that I continue to journal again. I missed it a lot and I can't wait to share new pages with you 💕 thank you, again, for being so patient and for staying here despite my absence. 🙈

Summer for me means doing things. Meeting people. Going places and having fun. And most importantly: eating. Most of the time, when I meet up with friends, we go and grab lunch or cook together. It’s the perfect thing to do because usually everyone is happy and you have more than enough time to sit and talk - which is something I love doing as well. Catching up with friends, talking about important and not so important topics and generally learning something new about them is one of my favourite things to do. It also helps me refrain from thinking too much about the stuff I still have to get done at home or for uni.

The weeks before my summer holidays were a mixture of ups and downs. We had some really interesting talks in class and it was a good feeling to wrap up our projects. We were already dreaming of our travels, days at the beach and just having time to relax and do nothing at all for a while.

But until then, a few presentations were approaching and I still had work as a significant part of my weeks. Usually when I drive to work after uni, I have some time to eat and chill. And on one hot day I went to an asian place just across my workplace for lunch. The food was delicious but as I was eating, the sky turned grey and cloudy and I had a bad feeling that a storm might be coming. Well, I was right about that. The rain started pouring and got so heavy that I had to move back in to the restaurant (I sat outside in a tent).  Luckily, the thunderstorm calmed down right as I finished eating. And when the rian turned into little drips of water, I decided to just run across the street to our building. I had an umbrella with me, so that was good. But as I waited for the street to clear up so that I could cross it, a huge lightning struck the tree RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. There was a loud bang and I saw the sky change from grey to purple for a second. It  happend right before my eyes! I was in a shock for the rest of the day and could not believe what I just witnessed. No one was hurt and the tree did not burn or anything... But I was in a weird state for the rest of the day.

For the confirmation (were evangelical) of my brother, he was gifted a trip to Copenhagen. So at the end of Mai we finally flew over to Denmark and spent four sunny days in the beautiful city of Copenhagen.

Our days were packed with walking around the city, visiting sights and learning about the danish lifestyle that seems so much more laid-back than the german one. A few spots we visited/saw: Gammel Strand, Amalienborg Castle and the Change of Guards, the little mermaid, Nyhavn, Tivoli, Garden of the Royal Library, the Round Tower, Frederiksborg Castle, the botanical garden... quite a few spots, right?

You can see my (much better looking) travel diary entries here.

To see the pictures I took check out my photography account on Instagram here.

Travel diary pages twenty-nine and thirty // Kopenhagen, 31. Mai - 3. Juni 2018