Hi there again, oh well, after so so long I just felt the impulse to go back at it again. From the starting of my studentship I just had no priority for writing kind of stuff (because we already did this a lot for courses), but since my gapyear, which is almost over now, I felt the urge to write again. About last year, my travellings, my jobs, thoughs, still sporty and healthy lifestyle and of course the future. Maybe no one is gonna read it, but it is like a positive diary for myself to look back at. I am grateful for the freedom I had the chance to take and I am more than happy and satisfied with what I did this last year. I made it happen, and I think everyone should made the dreams and hopes they have happen. You all deserve that.
So.. Where to start, pff.. I could start at where I ended, right before I started my Bachelor Psychology at the University of Leiden, but those three years were actually quite the same. Working at the Albert Heijn, doing committees at the study association, still modelling but not as often as I did, making some extra money with hospitality jobs, still spending time with the same boyfriend and new university friends, went windsurfing with the sports fraternity I joined in my second year and also did a committee and surftrip there, did volunteer jobs for healthcare with a schizophrenic buddy, depressive elderly and also people with eating disorders... I did a lot... Like always haha, it was a great time with parties, freedom and development. As soon as I got my degree, in three years, with more ECTS than necessary I decided I wanted to make that one dream come true. Going abroad for modelling. And it happened. I found a motheragent and she sent me to Istanbul for two months. After that I was more or less done with modelling, not because of the trip, but because my highest point, in between what I think I could achieve in the model business, was reached. I did it for eight years and it has been wonderful , I learned a lot, but my feelings said it was finished. Sooo, since I was not placed into another fashion city, I decided last minute to go backpacking on my own (after also one amazing trip to Morocco with a model friend from Istanbul). I got my vaccinations and two weeks later I was in Nepal, Kathmandu. Preparing for a two week trek in the Himalayas, a city trip to Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur and six days of rest and peace on a beach at Langkawi Island. It was the most wonderful trip I could ever imagine. When I got home I really felt the ATD, after travel depression. But the travelling was not over yet. A studytrip to Slovenia, Ljubljana was ahead of me and also an island hopping holiday to Greece with my boyfriend was planned. Right now all the travelling is over for some time, I am working because I spent to much money but also because I needed to get back to reality and daily stuff. However I will write mostly about last year up until the present. I will reflect on my trips mostly and share my thoughs. Next year will not be that interesting I guess, but we will see, you will never know.
I forgot to mention, I turned into a redhead since I sort of stopped modelling and I did not need to look like my portfolio pictures anymore!
Nevertheless, people book me more often now… Maybe also because I got an instagram account, quite late in the trend of having it, because it is only about see and be seen I guess, but okaaay another photo diary for myself: @kvanantwerpen
