April week 4

I can’t believe how fast the time is passing. It’s another month later! Before I know it I´m an old lady with fifty cats.

This week was fairly normal, apart from the fact that I bought a new memory card for my sister´s camera (I use hers all the time because I once dropped mine and broke the lens. I know. Stupid.) Now I can make more pictures. I did this especially for my awesome trips that I have coming up.
In two weeks I’ll be in Oslo! Expect lots of pictures of that soon :D I’m super excited. Even though I study Norwegian, I’ve never actually been in Norway. It’s about time.

Last Saturday was the first King’s Day in human history.

We used to have a queen, until her son and his wife took over last year. So I still say Queen's Day a lot, but it's King’s Day. Basically nothing was different from preceding years: there were free markets everywhere and the royal family visited a city which was being broadcast live on tv. It’ll change over the next few years though. No one knows what’ll change, but I bet they won’t make it any stupider, so I don’t really mind. We also ate a ‘tompouce’ and wore orange.

At the market, I managed to find an OlympusTrip 35 in pretty good condition, for only 1 euro :D My mum bought me and my sister a doll, because that is just awesome. 

Today I finally got around finding a place for my Doctor Who 50^th Anniversary poster! It’s got a special place on the inside of my bedroom door. 

Also, I added the page ‘books’ to the top of my blog. It’s basically a page with my Goodreads stats. (I still have to perfect it. The page isn't really doing what I want but I'll break him). I want to read more because I’m slacking horribly. I hope joining Goodreads was a good decision and that it will make me read more. Check it out, and feel free to recommend books to me, or become my friend! 

Look at my cat

I love my cat

 April Instagram (follow me :D) 

Whoa this post is getting long! Here's a quick song of the week:
Ólafur Arnalds ft. Arnór Dan - So Close (in honour of his BAFTA he won for his Broadchurch score! Well done Óli!)

Have a great last week of April, and don't forget to check out my books page!

Love,
Mia

March week 3

Goodbye another week! 

This week I did a few exciting things! On Wednesday I voted for the first time in my life! It was for the local elections, and because I now officially live in Amersfoort, I had to vote for that city. It felt kind of weird, because it would´ve been fun to vote for people I actually knew. Still, it was fun to do. I remember it being extremely fast, because I took out my earphones on my way in, letting my music (Kveikur by Sigur Rós) continue and on the way out the same song was still playing. I felt like a real adult. Then I went to get chips. The next day, Thursday, had the most amazing weather of the whole week. I had a presentation on Runes, which I NAILED. I absolutely hate having to speak in front of an audience. Luckily there are only about ten people in my class, so it wasn’t even that big of a group to speak to. Anyway, I survived and after that I took the weekend off. I have an exam at the end of next week, so after writing this I have to go study very hard for that.

The whole week I kept seeing blossoms everywhere. If there’s one thing I love, it’s blossoms. It was great! I didn’t take any pictures, unfortunately, but here’s one I made last year with my analogue camera:

On Friday I got home and my new book had arrived! The Cracks in the Kingdom by Jaclyn Moriarty. I talked about my excitement last week, you can check that out. I’m about halfway through it now, which simultaneously saddens and excites me. I have been reading all day yesterday (Sunday). I haven’t read that much in literally months and it felt so good to get completely lost in a story as absurd and brilliant as this one. Moriarty does this thing where her characters become a part of you while you read. They become your best friends, the setting of the story becomes your hometown. When you read ‘the bakery’ you know where that is and who owns the bakery and what buildings are next to the bakery. That is one reason why I love Moriarty’s books so much. Another reason is that the words are like magic. Everything does something. Every sentence has something clever in it. I just love it. Go read.

I felt very inspired to make some 'drawings' with crayons. I'm not very good at art but I feel like showing them anyway. 

After dinner my mum and I took a walk while the sun was setting and I made some cool pictures of it. It was a nice evening to walk in. 

Today, Monday, I accidentally cosplayed Rose Tyler. I just grabbed my English-flag-shirt out of my wardrobe and remembered I have a leather jacket too and I just became Rose. Here’s me awkwardly trying to look companion-like. 

Song of the Week: Radiohead - Optimistic

I hope you have a great last week of March!

Love,
Mia