Haia, I’m doing really bad with this site and I hate it and I’m sorry. So now that I haven’t found a job yet and actually want to spend time at home, I should be blogging more. Let’s hope I do it – because what could I possibly blog about? Well, for starters: why do I want to spend this summer at home? I don’t. I would love to go places, and I hope that will happen, somehow. But in a "why am I need keeping myself busy with work?"-way, let me explain. First off: there’s the harp concert thing with the 500 harps-world-record-breaking-attempt. Okay, let me phrase that again: a lot of people are trying to break the record for world’s biggest harp concert or something, attempting to have 500 harps during the world harp congress in the Netherlands later this month. So we’ve all been practicing and we’re totally going to break that record. Except that I’ve not really practiced enough and I should really start doing it daily. That’s point one, wish me luck, yadda yadda, it’ll be fun!

The second thing is that we moved here in eh, february, and there are still some boxes unpacked and things like that. I’d really like to get things in order. It’ll help start the new academic year, fresh and fruity [eh?] and all that nice stuff. The third thing is I have a lot of things I want to work on, crafty projects. Like my enormous backlog of editing photos, and working on my websites. I also want to finish some sewing, and finish reading some books, stuff like that.

Tomorrow, Muffin and my sister and myself are going to Paris. I’m kind of excited, because I love Paris and there’s an expo on Japan which will be awesome. Though I’m scared it’ll be very hot [and I don't really like too much heat] but oh well. It’s funny when you realise I’m still going through photos of last year’s summer, it’s really a year later now and I’m doing such different things! Yet I love getting nostalgic, so it’s not that bad.

Speaking of doing different things: this time last year, I thought I wasn’t going to study. Anything. Ever. I was just giving up, willing to work for a bit before finding out what my "career path" was going to be. When I had to resit my fifth year in high school, I almost wanted to quit but people told me to finish high school and go to art school instead. I laughed, "academy of the arts?! pff, that’s nothing I want to do", I thought art schools were pretentious and shaping people into a specific kind of artist, not letting them be free. Well. Here I am, a year later and I just finished my first year at an official Royal Academy of Fine Arts. What can I say? I definitely love it there, and will continue. I didn’t pass my first year fully, I have to redo a few projects [as we work in projects] next year. I don’t see this as a negative thing whatsoever. Yes, it would’ve been awesome if I’d passed. Though I’m already super happy that I got this far: I am living on my own now, with the person I love very dearly, I feel happy and I feel like I’m in the right place at the right time. Of course I am still figuring myself out, and I don’t think I’ll ever be done with that, but choosing for photography as a focal point in my life has been one of the best things so far. It has helped me grow, and I will continue to learn more and more about it as long as I feel passionate about it.

Oh, ain’t I a sap? Well. I think I’ve progressed. I didn’t want to do anything! Now I’ve done something and I’m not about to give up now that I’m not even halfway! I guess my motto is I want to do things, as long as I’m still happy doing them. And I am. So all you people out there who are going through a similar situation: you never know where you’ll be, a year from now. :]