I just realized I haven't updated my blog in almost a whole month. All of June has passed and we've entered July. How did that happen?
As opposed to last summer, when I was scrimping like crazy in a vain attempt to save as much money as possible for my long vacation, I've decided that I'm going to thoroughly enjoy every single day this summer. Not that money has to play a big role, because there is so much you can do without it. But somehow I let it affect me in a negative way last year, and I kind of forgot everything that you can do for free. Just riding my bike in the late, light evening, breathing the fresh summer air, having an ice-cream with a friend or watching tourists in the city center - these are things are inexpensive but highly entertaining.
Speaking about money I have to admit I was a bit short on it when I came back from the States. Traveling for three months while having no income kind of does that to you. This is where my wonderful family comes in. My dad arranged for me to work at his job - a school which is 50 minutes away from Gothenburg by train - as a summer school teacher for two weeks. And one of my sisters supported me with money for the train tickets. Aren't they awesome! On top of that I have my sister Juliette (living in the same apartment building) who feeds me when necessary. Fortunately my chips bags can take refuge in her apartment, because if I keep them at my place I will eat until there are no more chips.
As usual I have so many plans and ideas for the summer. Not so much traveling, but exercising, redecorating my apartment, reading books, writing and studying. I'm happy to say that I'm on my way to achieving at least one of those goals, reading books. It's almost like eating chips: once I start reading I can't stop. But this is far more constructive and healthy of course. This far I've read the two Hemingway novels I bought in Florida: The Sun also Rises & For Whom the Bell Tolls and a novel about Hemingway's life in Paris. I'm on my way to finish Hemingway's biography A moveable Feast (if you haven't figured it out by now I'm obsessed with Hemingway). I've also finished off a Swedish crime novel and the next books I plan to read are On Beauty by Zadie Smith and something by Virginia Woolf. If I could only get started properly on writing my own novel....
Now I only have two more days of work, and then it's off to Malmö for the convention. Yay! After that I have another five weeks of vacation before reality sets in. And every single day counts.
As opposed to last summer, when I was scrimping like crazy in a vain attempt to save as much money as possible for my long vacation, I've decided that I'm going to thoroughly enjoy every single day this summer. Not that money has to play a big role, because there is so much you can do without it. But somehow I let it affect me in a negative way last year, and I kind of forgot everything that you can do for free. Just riding my bike in the late, light evening, breathing the fresh summer air, having an ice-cream with a friend or watching tourists in the city center - these are things are inexpensive but highly entertaining.
Speaking about money I have to admit I was a bit short on it when I came back from the States. Traveling for three months while having no income kind of does that to you. This is where my wonderful family comes in. My dad arranged for me to work at his job - a school which is 50 minutes away from Gothenburg by train - as a summer school teacher for two weeks. And one of my sisters supported me with money for the train tickets. Aren't they awesome! On top of that I have my sister Juliette (living in the same apartment building) who feeds me when necessary. Fortunately my chips bags can take refuge in her apartment, because if I keep them at my place I will eat until there are no more chips.
As usual I have so many plans and ideas for the summer. Not so much traveling, but exercising, redecorating my apartment, reading books, writing and studying. I'm happy to say that I'm on my way to achieving at least one of those goals, reading books. It's almost like eating chips: once I start reading I can't stop. But this is far more constructive and healthy of course. This far I've read the two Hemingway novels I bought in Florida: The Sun also Rises & For Whom the Bell Tolls and a novel about Hemingway's life in Paris. I'm on my way to finish Hemingway's biography A moveable Feast (if you haven't figured it out by now I'm obsessed with Hemingway). I've also finished off a Swedish crime novel and the next books I plan to read are On Beauty by Zadie Smith and something by Virginia Woolf. If I could only get started properly on writing my own novel....
Now I only have two more days of work, and then it's off to Malmö for the convention. Yay! After that I have another five weeks of vacation before reality sets in. And every single day counts.
Vi ses där!
ReplyDelete