It is summer everyone. I think I might have mentioned this like everyday during the last week but I'm just that excited for it finally being warm and sunny outside. And since it is quiote hot outside I think it is really important to stay hydrated and drink a lot of water.
And on that note :
This other video is from a channel called Jacksgap on Youtube and personally I think it's very well made and 3:38 minutes well spend :D
Since it still is warm outside and really lovely I'll actually go back out and enjoy the last hour of sunlight today before the craziness of university starts again tomorrow :)
Hi to everyone reading this. I hope you had a good start into the week. Todays blog is about something a little more serious. I subscribed to a channel on youtube called Jacksgap they have a lot of good videos on there but the new one really got to me. So I wanted to share it aswell because the content is really important to me and I think the more people know about it the better. And also more people can help out :)
The Rainbow Center is a charity registered in the UK providing education, welfare and loving support to children living in extreme poverty in south western Sri Lanka. I went to check them out after I had watched the video that Jack and Finn did on their channel. I read through their homepage and I have to say I really admire their work, it seems like something that really helps people out. I always thought that helping people who aren't as lucky as I am is something that I kinda have to do. It's almost an obligation for me. And I know not everyone feels that way but I just think that donating 10€ a month won't kill me or make a lot of difference for me but it will make a difference for other people. I donate money every month to "Uno-Flüchtlingshilfe" who support people that had to flee their homes for whatever reason. They build tents and just trys to provide the most simple things we need to live. I mean I consider myself privileged for being able to go to school and now to university, for having enough to eat and never having to worry about how I'm gonna survive the next day. I know I also hated school when I was younger but now I know I should consider myself lucky for being given that opportunity. So why not help kids who don't have that opportunity if no one donates money? I think I can spare a lot more then 10€ a month and as long as I think that it helps people I'm gonna keep donating money and hopefully make someone child somewhere in the world smile because they have just been given the chance to go to school. The chance to get an education and a chance to live a better life then their parents possibly did. So watch the video and if you can why not donate some money to make some kids smile? x J.
Moving out. A big deal? I don't know, for me it was the inevitable thing to happen after I came back from New Zealand. I had practically lived on my own for a year, I say it like this cause I mean I was living with host parents but that's not comparable to living with your parents. And after I knew how it was to live alone, moving back in with my parents was so weird. Having them round all day felt like I was constantly being watched and I started to fall back into old habits. I didn't want to be that person anymore, the person I was before I went to New Zealand but I cought myself doing stuff the old me would have done. And aside from that I just couldn't be around my parents 24/7 anymore I had lived without it for a whole year, it was nothing I could just go back to. And I mean I lived without even being able to call them whenever I wanted. There were times when we didn't talk for like 2 months and I would just send an E-mail saying I was okay every two weeks. So living with them was strange and I just wasn't able to do that anymore. I got back in late July last year and moved back out on 1. September. So I was with my parents for a month but even in that time I was on holiday for a week and than started going back and forth between the city that I live in now and home looking for a flat. So I wasn't really home that much in August. And that was exactly the way I needed it, I would have gone mad if it had been any other way. I mean I love my mum and my dad and most of the time even my sister but I didn't need them anymore the way I needed them before going away. We still are close and I talk to my mum on the phone for hours sometimes and that is really cool, I love having them here but being back in the hosue I grew up in still feels strange in some way. It feels like I don't belong there anymore and the village I grew up in is really small so compared to the city I know live in it's tiny. It's cool to have them visit me cause this is my place now and I can't really describe the difference between having them here and visiting them but it feels right if they come visit me. I mean yes occasionally I go home cause my grandma also lives there and she can't travel that easily but that happens like once in 2 months or something like that. I love living on my own goign to University, organising my days and going food shopping for myself. Yes it took me a while till I had that all figured out but now that I do this is my home. I have my friends here, my flatmates, my room and my life. The only thing I really regret about moving out is not having thought of this: (It's such an amazing idea next time I move out im totally gonna do it)
I got that video from their channel on youtube. It's called Jacksgap. They do a lot of fun stuff so if you have some spare time on your hands go check them out :) x J.