I don't really have any excuses either. I just kept putting off making any more posts, but here I am now!
What can I tell you about my life? Things have been kind of boring lately, now that school is out. I am still only working a couple of days a week, so I've had to start finding things to do so that the days don't always feel so long. I've started doing some at-home Pilates to try and get in shape and I've also been trying some new recipes, which I have really been enjoying.
However, probably the most exciting thing that has happened since I lat made a post is that I bought a plane ticket to Brazil for July!
My best friend Isa is Brazillian, but has been living with her aunt and uncle in Germany for the last year or so, and before that she was living in Canada as an exchange student. She hasn't been home to see her parents in almost three years, and she decided to go back for a couple of months before moving to the UK to go to school. Obviously, this meant that I had to go with her!
So in July I will be heading to Brazil and I will be staying there for a month! I'm so excited! I've always wanted to visit Brazil, but I never thought that I would actually have the chance to do it. I still can't believe that in just a couple of short months, I'll be getting on a plane to go somewhere so far away from home for such a long time.
Of course, setting up this trip also meant that I had to do a couple of super adult things, which is weird. I had to buy the ticket myself, which in itself was kind of terrifying, but I also had to set up an appointment at a travel clinic in order to get some vaccines. I had to make the call myself and be in charge of setting up my own appointment, which is something I had never done before. I thought I had to put in a tourist visa application as well, but it turned out that the tourist visa had been waived during the time that I'll be there because of the Olympics in Rio. I did have to buy a new suitcase though, as the only one I have had for the last several years is basically carry-on size, and there was no way that it would be able to carry enough stuff for me to survive for a month.
So now that I am going on this trip for sure (it's been in the works for over a year, but I was never sure if it was actually going to happen), I have a pretty strict deadline for when I need to have finished editing my manuscript. I'm moving along slowly but surely, and luckily all of my beta readers seem to be enjoying the story so far which is amazing. I still have lots of things that I need to fix, especially based on all of the helpful notes that they are giving me, but I'm getting happier and happier with it.
I'm just hoping that I will be able to stay motivated to write and also to keep doing these exercises and recipes. I'm really enjoying them right now, but we shall see how I'm feeling about it tomorrow when my abs are so sore that I can barely even move.
Until next time,
-Helen.
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