July Chats 2016

Welcome to a new post!

I can't believe it's been a month already since I chatted to you all about my month of June :o. Yet, it's time to talk about July. To be honest I nearly wrote this through the middle of the month because I got so exited about writing it. July has been a weird month, in which on one hand a lot of things happened, and on the other hand, nothing happened. Sorry if this ends up being a really messy post, but I am just going to write down whatever comes to my head that right second.

Birthdays

Hell, there were a lot of birthdays happening this month. At least that's what I call it when there are four parties you are going to - though December is a lot worse haha. I had a really lovely time at all of them, and oh my god we had the nicest food ever!

The first party was my friend's one, and she is basically the biggest pizza lover and eater you could ever imagine. We had pizza with broccoli and corn, and I think I might be in love. Try it kids, it's literally the best thing ever even if it might sound healthy or gross to you.

Also had a really lovely time at my brother's BBQ and my other friend's 18th! Look at this cool box her mother made! It's a survival kit haha - Pinterest for the win! :D Still dreaming about my food and my drink as well..

School

We are finally on school break people!! I am so happy I can spend some time basically doing nothing, not having to worry about anything school related, and I am probably not the only one! (Sorry to everyone that has to work or go to uni.)

The last few school days weren't that eventful apart from loads of classes not happening and most teachers only showing up to show a film or let you leave after 5 minutes even though you just spent two hours waiting for those 5 minutes...I can't complain though :D.

And my last ever French lesson consisted of making Crêpes, how cool is that?? Kinda scared if it was the right choice to stop studying it, even if I am not really a French genius - I do love languages though...Well, I've still got English and Spanish left though! :)

But I am more than happy about never having to worry about Physics again, because I have never ever got on well with that subject. I just don't get the stuff, I'd rather do Chemistry and Biology, so that is what I am doing!

Oh, and we had our first lessons of the advanced courses that we chose to do in our A-levels :o. I chose Biology and English. It was really interesting to see who we're going to have to spend the next two years of our lives with, and talk about what we'll learn and hear about.

Also got our first homework for English class, which is reading To Kill a Mockingbird. I am actually quite exited about it, as I've wanted to read it for quite a while now, but never got round to it. If you've read it already, what did you think of it? :)

TV Series

Guess who thought it was time to start a new TV show, now that it's Summer time - yes, me. And after two years of putting it off, because I thought it wouldn't be for me, I finally started Game of Thrones. Yes, I am kind of late, but please don't kill me. I'd rather be late than never start it :D. I never thought that I would like it, but it legit took me 12 days to watch 6 seasons....Don't judge me, you should allow yourself stuff like that every once in a while :D. Now I am onto watching every possible BTS and interview footage that I can find.

Absolutely love Peter Dinklage, Maisie Williams, Emilia Clarke and Kit Harington!

Films

Yaaaaaas, I finally watched Me Before You! I bloody loved that book, if you didn't know that yet, and I finally found someone to watch the film with, wohoooooooo! It was just as beautiful as the book, a lot better than other adaptations in my opinion! Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin did an amazing job in my opinion! There was so much to laugh at, yet I was so freaking close to tears as well, and I don't often get to that point when in the cinema! It's probably more for girls than boys, but if you have a chance to watch it, or at least read the book, go for it! Don't put it down any longer :). Definitely getting this on DVD as soon as it's out!

Books

I love a good book, and I've made it my goal to read a hell of a lot this Summer! I finished After You, the sequel to Me Before You a few days ago, and that was actually the day I finished watching Game of Thrones as well.

Me as a writer, reader and Potterhead, had to read the books obviously. I just can't deal with watching a series that is based of apparently really good books and not read them! But typical me, I would rather save some money and commit to something a little bigger - and ended up buying the whole 5 books box set on my kindle... Now there is no way I can't possibly read them I guess, here's to 4.272 pages! :D So far my kindle is telling me I'm 5% in, even though I've read quite a bit so far!

I really want to get the school book done quickly, so I'll stop reading at the end of the week and do that first, but so far I am really liking it!

Oh, and I cannot leave this part without mentioning Tanya Bakes by the amazing Tanya Burr! I've been bloody loving her receipes ever since it came out. I even did a whole blogpost about it - if you haven't seen that yet and wand to find out more, click HERE! There's so much amazing stuff in there, and I cannot wait to make even more of the stuff!

Adventures

Hell, we've done a lot with our school class to end the one year that we spent together, and it was bloody lovely. We went cooking with our teachers - the evening was lovely expect our football team loosing at the european tournament and the fact that we each paid 15€ to eat the tiniest plate of Gnocci, including tin sauces, no second rounds, and all we did ourselves was peeling a few potatoes. But I swear we had a nice time!

A little later we went to our teachers charity event - at least a few of us - which was really fun. I even bought a lovely new bag and won a notepad which would've costed 1€ wohoooo :D.

And a little after that we went to visit a local brewery, where we got a few drinks ;). That day we also made a visit to the local river, which ended up with us planning another visit, which only happened a few days ago. There's something pretty lovely about spending time talking, singing and eating, even if that includes people running around to catch Pokémon haha.

Not to forget that other dinner trip we did as well - we've been pretty much all around each other for the past few days haha -the next trip is already planned.

Festival Time

Me and a few of my friends had been wanting to go to a Holi Festival for quite a while, but we never got round to it, as there was always something different happening on that day. We finally managed to do it this year, at least a few of us, and I'm still not quite sure what to think. I had heard people saying it's something you can do once, but don't need to go to twice, which I think is pretty true. It's fun for a while, but at some point most people have enough and there isn't really that much going on anymore. We ended up only spending 3 of the 10 hours there, but it was nice to be there once. I'd not pay for it again, but yeah - I am repeating myself :D. The most disgusting thing of the day were deffo the particles of colour in the hair afterwards - hell, my hair was heavy and sticky af. :D

Booking a holiday

We didn't think we would be able to go on holiday this year, but somehow we ended up actually being able to, and about a week ago we booked a trip for August! We decided to go to Berlin, as I was the only one who had been there before, but we wanted to save some money for a proper beach trip next year, as well. It's only a few days, but I cannot wait to explore the stuff that I didn't see when I went there with school. I'm pretty interested in the World Wars, so I am exited to see more of that historical stuff - even if I am not the biggest fan of museums. I'm planning to do one or more blogpost about the trip, so get exited :)!

Terror

I hoped I wouldn't have to adress this topic again, but if you followed to news for the past few days or weeks, you will able to tell that didn't quite happen...Here's a few of the words that I had planned to put into a whole blogpost, that I wrote the night the shooting in Munich happend:

Ever since I can remember, I've been afraid of war. I've been afraid of terror, murder, death in general, hurt, and everything that comes with it. I've felt safe for many years, yet I knew that one day this safety wouldn't be stable anymore. You've been seeing it in the past two or three years. This world has never been a perfect place, that is certain. However, throughout the past few years I feel like it's been going downhill. Sure, there has been similar stuff going on in other countries, but they are far away from us Europeans - our news kinda play them down as they don't seem to important since these events aren't happening that close - it's not that we wouldn't care. I feel like for the past few months I keep going on Social Media, and all I find is a new 'event' with various deaths and hurt people. Paris hit me hard in November, harder than any other terroristic thing ever did. Seeing it happening in my own country, is going just as deep, and I am pretty sure I am not the only one. There have been so many similar events recently, that we kind of start to care less with each one of them, because  for some reason we are getting used to them, which is totally wrong. My tv has been running for nearly two hours now, they keep on repeating stuff, but I just seem to can't get it out of my head. The fact that we've only booked a Berlin trip a few days ago, doesn't make it any better. Yet I guess it has come to the point where you could go anywhere and maybe end up in a situation like that. That is what is so sad about it. On one side I feel like I have to keep on living my life, because this could happen anywhere at any place, but on the other side I am scared. Scared of my own life, of the ones of my friends, family etc. What has this world become? I was always pretty happy about the fact that I had never experienced anything like the World Wars, and I've been interested in that stuff for many many years. But it's come to the point, where I can feel a proper new war creeping up, and this is only the beginning, and that's what I find frightening. I have never been a person that cares much about politics, but in these days, I am caring about them more than ever before. If you had no idea what was going on before you read this post, I advise you to please download any news app, something like BBC news, in order to get notified in the right time. This is highly important for each of us, whether it's happening somewhere close to you or miles and miles away. It could always happen right next to you and you might not find out until it is too late. There is always that possibility.

Important Blog News

On a more happier note, there's finally going to be some changes on this blog and it's layout! I've made it my goal to use the whole of the next week to redesigning it, as I've kind of grown tired of the one I've got right now. That might mean that there won't be a blogpost next week, as I can't promise how long it is going to take me to do it. But I've got a few ideas for blogposts as soon as that has happened, so get exited! If you end up seeing weird things on this blog or weird layouts throughout the next week, don't worry - I'll currently be working on that. You'll hear from me as soon as I am finished! :)

I really hope you enjoyed this post! I'd love to know what you got up to this month, so don't feel too shy to leave me a comment. ;)

Have an amazing day ♥

Love, Jacqueline Xx