Did you miss me?

Hey Fa!

I am finally back from my break of one year. (Yes, it already is one year ago I last posted something on this blog!)

To be honest, I enjoyed being away from this blog for a while, but eventually I started missing the writing down of my thoughts.

I know you all are extremely curious to know why on earth I deciced to quit writing and posting stuff, so I am going to fully explain that decision right here.

As you can remember (or cannot: go immediately check my last post on this page!), I went to Scotland for my Erasmus teaching practice.

At this moment this is exactly one year ago (well, one year ago I was there already for 1 month now) and I feel a bit itchy about it, to be honest.

I really really miss Glasgow and the people and nature. But especially the freedom I felt.

After this great adventure, I graduated in June as a teacher of English-Dutch in secondary education. Bam, first paper in the pocket!

Yes! You noticed that correctly: I said 'first' paper. So does that mean I am going for a second one? Correct again!

Yep, indeed, I am still studying (and I have my personal reasons for it, so no, I am not a freewheeler who hasn't have her life figured out yet).

After my graduation I took some me time to figure out what I want in life and what my future should look like.

Based on deep and intense talks with my family, friends and myself, I decided to go for my Master's degree in English.

It was a tough decision but everyday I am confronted with the fact that I made a good one.

Since my past course was on a university college and my Master's degree is on a university, I have to do a linking year.

A linking year is a year in which you catch up with all the academic courses you did not had the chance to do in your first studies.

In reality this means I need to do 3 years of Bachelor in 1 year. Yes, this is totally insane.

So yeah, the past couple of months have been hard with lots of ups and downs, emotionally and mentally.

But I LOVE doing it and I finally feel that I belong.

Doing a linking year also means not having lots of spare time left to do fun things. Most of my time is occupied by school and it sometimes sucks.

But I need to work hard to achieve my goal.

So, this also means: yes, my intension is to start writing again, BUT (big BUT!), I will not always find the time or energy, SO: bare with me!

Alright, I think you are now fully informed and 'catched' up a bit.

I hope you all are doing great in life!

I am looking forward informing you with some new insights and poetry!

Thanks for reading this and take care.

Lots of love,

Maple Juice