The life of a student

It's been a long time since my first blog post. I always do that. I always stop writing before I've even started. To be frank, I hate that about myself. Why can't I ever just keep doing what I'm doing? Maybe that's why I'll never ever buy a website. Because it's too expensive for what I'll actually do with it.

Anyway, how's the life of a student? I study French, so it's pretty great. I'm learning the language, I'm learning about the culture and the history of France, which is very great as well. Linguistics turns out to be very interesting, especially with all the scientific research. I love scientific research. It's so weird how someone can 'confirm' something, in some sort of way, by science. That's totally weird, isn't it?

The weirdest thing is, I'm not even doing what I love best. We're not talking about literature. I mean... I'm reading all these classics in my spare time, because I'm so interested in them. I feel like they're just part of my education. But hélas, we never do something with them in class. I'd love to talk about my books with someone.
Once, I found this blog, and this girl talked about all the books that I was reading at the time, and I felt like she was my soulmate. Maybe she is my soulmate, and I just damn right ignored my feelings. That woulda been hilarious.

I'm sleeping at people's houses,  because I don't actually live in the city where I study yet. There's not enough dorms for all the students, it seems. So I travel up and down from home town to univercity (see what I did there?), but sometimes I just have finals and they're way too early to travel and I ask people who live in my univercity whether I can sleep at their houses and surprisingly enough they say 'Yes, sure!' and I'm all excited.

What I'm reading at this very moment? Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. I kind of love that person; Jane Eyre. She's lovely. I am not even halfway yet, but I think I'll finish this book when finals are over or something. I've got a lot to read, actually. You don't want to know.

- Petite Hollandaise

The things we lost

This is the first day of this life. It feels great already, really. I am not going to school, because I'm too old for that. I'm not going to university, yet, because I think myself too young for that. I passed high school exams, so now I'm in this gap year. Delete the word 'year'.  I'm just in a gap. I don't know what happened, but all of a sudden I was just alone, with nobody near. 

Of course, I have this great family with whom I have fun every day, but my old friends are all too busy. Whenever that seems the case, they are probably not really great friends any more, right? I need a fresh bunch of friends. I don't know exactly where you can buy them. Can I order them online? Wouldn't that make life a whole lot easier? 

If you could buy your friends online, you could just filter through the site. Select their favorite food, their hair color and length, their clothing style, music taste, etc. Time out. Doesn't that already exist? Isn't that what dating sites are for? I was writing this in a cynical way, but now that I think about it, it's kind of pathetic that this actually already exists!

I'm not saying there's no chance you can find some soul mate online by filtering and putting up your best picture, but isn't it way more fun to tell this really romantic story to your kids of how you and daddy met? Those are dreams. In real life, love never comes the way you expect or want it to. Movies make us biased, though, so we are not easily satisfied. 

In movies, even a gap year sounds amazing. In real life, however, it's just me, behind my desk, scratching freshly sucked mosquito bites. I go to the movies a lot. I guess that's how movies are a part of me. They fill up the gap, for now. Later, I'll have to find something else to fill up the gap. Or maybe I've found it already... There's one thing that I have always been passionate about. It's something really dorky, I don't know how many people are actually like me. 

I invite you all into this new life of mine, starting from day 1. Isn't it amazing how I can just start a life from day 1? I'm already typing and saying all these weird things. I feel great. 

- Petite Hollandaise