A short one this week.

Hello all!

This week was a pretty good week again. Unfortunately, the lovely weather has left London. But at the same time, it's finally officially spring! That's why me and my housemates thought it was necessary to go shopping. I'm ready for spring now with my new yellow, blue, and green nail polish (what can I say, I just love nail polish), and some summer clothes. Now we just need the sun...

Of course, I also had to work this week. My internship is still really fun! We have such a nice team of young people, and also when we're not working we all get on. We even started our own football team! Surprisingly I didn't suck that much when we played for the first time on monday night! My body was sore for three days, but let's not focus on that.

There was also enough time for going to the pub a few times, also last night. So here I am: a little tired from dancing in Shoreditch all night and shopping all day. Now I actually need to do some boring stuff like clean my room and start working on my progress report out my internship for Uni...

So this was my Sunday Story of the week. A little short and a little boring.

Love,
Yolanda

Just a lovely week.

Hello all! Once again, it's sunday night and I have to write my Sunday Story. Once again, I just want to put on my pyjamas and drink tea. Yes, it was a fun weekend.

This working-week was really fun too. After being away from London last weekend, I realised how amazing my life in London is. This week, I really enjoyed my internship. It was just so much fun working with everyone at the office. We had some amazing lunch breaks, with great fresh food from Borough market, and strolls along the Thames. Seriously, how lucky am i?
I also had some really nice evenings during the week, involving going to the pub a few times. This week, I introduced a lot of the different people in my life (my colleagues, my old friends, my housemates, etc.), to one another. And it was so nice to see that everyone got along. It makes me so happy when my favourite people here are talking and laughing with each other. It makes me feel so blessed that these people are my friends!

This weekend, the weather was again amazing in London. Saturday I went to Tate Modern with Kirsten. We were just in there for about 15 minutes, which we spent laughing at some of Picasso's paintings. Then we got some coffee and food and sat down at Tate, in the sun. It was so lovely.
Saturday night, we went out with Kirsten's boyfriend Jon and some of his University friends from when he studied in Oxford. They took us to this amazing place, called Bar Nightjar. It was like being in one of my dreams. The entire bar was decorated in 1920s style. You could see that they put so much thought and effort in every little detail. The waiters looked like they just walked out of the Great Gatsby. Alphonse Mucha's work was everywhere. The waiters were doing magic tricks, and making these amazing cocktails for us. It was simply amazing and I really hope that I get to go back there again. If not, I 'took' some souvenirs with me, so I will always remember that place.

Today was again a lovely day. Andi was in London because she was here with her parents for a few days. They flew back to the US today, so we could meet up and catch up! We got some food and went to lie in the sun in Hyde Park. A little bit later Kirsten also joined, and we had so much fun together. That's really all I want: being outside in the sun, having some nice food, and having good company. Who needs more?

Love,
Yolanda

Swansea Revisited

This week went by so quickly. 

After a short working week, I got on the train at London Paddington, to Swansea! It truly felt like a mini-holiday. Like in the rest of the UK, the weather was absolutely amazing this weekend. I have always thought Swansea was a lovely place, but this weather makes it even better. It was so good to be back in Swansea for a bit. I enjoyed Singleton Park and the beach like crazy, and I even left Swansea a tiny bit more tanned. 

But the number one reason for visiting Swansea this weekend was for my friend Manvir's birthday party. Last week, I told her that I couldn't make it to Swansea because a friend from Holland was visiting me in London. Not. A few people knew I was coming, and helped my plan the surprise. And it worked! Even though the rest of the weekend was so good, the best moment was still seeing Manvir's face on Friday afternoon when she opened the door to her bedroom, and she saw me standing there. The rest of the weekend was filled with seeing my lovely friends again, drinking (a bit too much) and enjoying the sun. After seeing Wales loosing the rugby to England yesterday afternoon (SO GUTTED :( !!), I got back on the train to London again. I finally got home at 23.30 and I woke up my housemates to cuddle and kiss them. I really missed them and the city this weekend. By going away, I realised that London is my home now, and this makes me very happy.

Have a great week everyone!

Love,

Yolanda

The lesson of my week

Hello all!

Yes, the title of this Sunday Story says enough. I don't have a lot of inspiration to write today. Everything at my internship and in my house are still really good, which makes me really happy.

This week, I was going through some old pictures on my computer. I found this one picture I took at the improvised 3rd-day-of-Christmas-dinner that me and a few close friends did when I was in Holland this December. We were picking a random small notes from a box. I don't know the correct name of this thing but ah well. The point is that I came across this quote by a Dutch poet, Vosmaer.

It's in Dutch, so I'll act as Google Translate for those who aren't lucky enough to speak that beautiful language. It basically means that most people have to many expectations of life and therefore enjoy it too little.
It is something that kept coming back to me this week, in various conversations with different people about different things. I just wanted to share this with all of you.

Have a good week!

Love,
Yolanda