Summer

Yesterday I decided that I would take a short trip to Croatia; today, I’ve packed a backpack full of clothes, food, and drink. It’s as simple as that for me. The freedom summer offers is you is the thing that I value the most.

We had joy, we had fun, we’ll have seasons in the sun!

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After four months of extensive blogging about cats and their crazy owners, now would be the perfect moment to clarify something in this, my final, blog post: I am not, nor have I ever been, a crazy cat lady. 

Why staying at home is better than you may think

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 Want to spoil your wallet and your nerves? ‘Staycation’ is the solution.

Sitting in your desk chair 350 days a year, there is probably one thing you think of constantly: holidays. It’s these two weeks that make up for days of getting up early and spending eight hours at the office. It’s possibly also the main reason many people still work in boring jobs for low wages. Of course, you want to spend your well-deserved vacation the best way you can.

Vacations Suck

At the close of the school year, every student’s brain enters into“countdown mode”.  Despite every teacher’s attempt to tie us down with dooming exam dates, reports, presentations, etc . , we’ve got only one thing on our minds: SUMMER.

“What are your plans?”

“Will you be in the city?”

“We should hang out.”

It’s been so since the beginning of time, well probably not, but the one thing that I’ve learned in my 22 years of age is that summer actually sucks.

Working for the Elite.

I’ve had all sorts of jobs: summer, badly paid, physically straining and mentally draining, amongst other kinds of jobs. From organizing files in a tax office at 14 to bartending at 19, these kinds of jobs come and go. None of them fascinated and bored me more than my job at Café Mozart.

...meanwhile in Balconia

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No, the title does not refer to the Balkans, but merely to the utopia of spending the perfect holiday on your balcony. “Utopia” is the Greek word for “no place” and sounds like “eutopia”, which means “good place”. Wouldn’t it be nice to combine these two and create the perfect hideout? No holiday is perfect, unless you make it happen. And what place would be better to prove this than your own home, where no one would expect you to spend your holiday (which, you see, makes a “no place” a “good place”)? The Utopia of Balconia!

"Out of the blue vacation"

Every year, with summer nearing, you ask yourself the same questions: “Where should I spend my vacation and can I afford to visit some far-flung exotic country?” Well, I guess, I'm one of those lucky people who don't have to think about these kinds of questions, since I was born at the seaside. It doesn’t really make any difference if I stay at home or visit an exotic country. Then again, I'm also a broke student and I can only dream about an exclusive vacation. But let's formulate it like this: “No money, no worries!” There will be some opportunities in the future, but for the time being I don't have high expectations. Yet, when I least expected it, something incredible came around.