Holland and a few more stories.

Like I probably mentioned, I went to Holland for a few days to hang out by the lake and catch a bit of sun to toast my nose. It was all about bonfires, swimming, and spotting cute animals, as well as having the first (and worst-planned) barbeque of the decade! Oh, and Burger King. Lots of Burger King.

It was pretty awesome, although some minor mishaps included my boyfriend dropping his iPhone in the lake (but he did manage to save it in the end! hooray!) as well as ending up sunburned after getting his butt kicked twice at ping-pong. The fact that even he came back smiling and relaxed makes up for having to get slathered in aloe vera every two hours! At least it does for me, haha.

Tomorrow I’m flying back home to Venezuela for three weeks. After that, it’s Finland and hopefully a small voyage into either  Scandinavia or the Baltic states. We’ll see. Anyway, this summer is looking exciting and overwhelming, and the only whining I hear right now is coming from my bank account. And my stomach, of course, after the imminent Burger King overload (because there’s lots of them in Venezuela, too)!

Here’s a few more pictures from Holland, the polaroidy ones courtesy of my boyfriend’s resuscitated iPhone!

Holiday fun

Yay! But to be honest, I finished exams about a week ago, and it’s been hazy and crazy ever since. Well, more hazy than crazy, to be honest! But what I’ve done is basically hang out with my boyfriend all day, go out drinking every nite, made sushi with friends and gone out to restaurants I’d never gone to before. At this rate, I’ll be broke with a pickled liver and fries on the side.

Tomorrow I’ll be going to a place called Lucky Lake over in Holland. I’m praying for sun and no rain, sausages and halloumi and nice cold beer on the grass along with those ugly-ass animal sculptures in front of what will be my caravan. Again: yay!

Shout out to my glaring friend Baite, who will undoubtedly bring the beats and the tunes for the rest of us lackeys!!

Oh, and photos by my furry little boyfriend! Let’s hope there will be many more to come!

About a week to go, in my marshmallow socks.

This particular part of my room is a mess of old clothes (which I tell myself I’ll do something with), ugly pillows (which my mom has lovingly collected over the years, bless her) and ill-planned electrical configurations (which da Lord knows I have no idea what to do about).  I' still have about a week and a half of exams to go and so far it’s gone surprisingly well, save for History of Books, a subject that caught me off guard with a panoply of complicated technicalities which obviously escaped me until I’d turned my paper in and wailed a long, screeching “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO” in my head. Anyway, perhaps it didn’t go as badly as I think, but fact of the matter is that this whole deal has made me quieter and far less upbeat than I was at the beginning of the week when I scored an unexpected 17/20 in my Sociology of Art exposé (based on this awesome essay on asylum art by Anne Bowler).

Vacationz, people! That’s all I’m talking about, really!