Summer Goals

Since I've just got my results back, and have a while to go before I move, I have been thinking about new things to try and do this summer. Here are a few things I came up with. What do you want to do this summer?





Learn a song on the guitar.

Find some new, summery music to listen to, and update my playlists.

Read lots and lots.

Take more photos.

Try new recipes.

Save up enough money to book our flights (for our wedding/honeymoon) early.

Improve my blog, and get more followers.

Get contact lenses.






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My Week

Things I have been up to this week;



1) Missing Michael. Although I have finished my degree, Michael is still completing his PGCE course and is back and forth from London and Chelmsford. He was recently away for three days, so I have been mooching around until he came home again. (Yay!).



2) Visited my Babcia and Dziadzia. (Grandparents). I learnt how to make pierogi, which are a kind of pasta dumpling with a cheese and potato filling. Sounds weird, but yummy.







3) Looked at lots of bunnies and wanted one very badly. I filled up my phone memory with photos of them, and managed to name quite a few before I was cruelly dragged away.






4) Arranged some work experience at my old Junior school. I have a meeting with the head the week after half term to confirm details, but then hopefully I can check this item off my summer list!



5) Reading. It is so so nice to read for pleasure once again. I've read the latest in the Sookie Stackhouse series, Dead Reckoning, (great, but finished on a cliffhanger, which yet again will leave me hanging for another year!) Then I read Angelology, which was amazing, and will also have a sequel, and a movie. I also read God is a Rabbit, drawn in by the title.

Now I am about to start David Mitchell's latest title, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, which looks intriguing, and I loved Cloud Atlas, so I have high hopes for this one. I have not yet finished The Hare with Amber Eyes either, preferring to read it in small increments. The reason for this being here: http://miarabbit.blogspot.com/2011/05/beautiful-book.html.







And that has been my week!

Aspirations

I have always been a very ambitious person, and since Michael is too, being together makes us think seriously about all the things we can achieve together. And, since I love making to-do lists, it is only natural that I have made one of things I want to achieve this summer!


1) Get my degree.
2) Learn more Espanol.
3) Add another 20 books to my reading challenge list.
4) Tone up.
5) Get some more work experience.


Of course, my life list is a lot longer and tends to fluctuate, depending on what I'm currently scheming, but penultimately includes items such as; travel the world, start our own business, get a book published etc.

It is extremely fulfilling when I look back at older lists I've made several years ago, and am able to tick off things I've completed! Recent examples include get a TEFL, live abroad and write a book.

Hopefully in another five years I can tick off many more!

The 100 Book Challenge

So, I'm studying English Literature, and that requires a lot of reading. But I really don't mind, since I adore reading. Books have always inspired, influenced and entertained me. So I was shocked when I realised that it had been months since I'd read for fun, read what I wanted to... Hence, the 100 Book Challenge. It's my challenge to read 100 books by 31st August, 2012.

Anyone who wants to join me, is more than welcome to! I'm currently on number 10... Madame Bovary, a book I've always wanted to read, but never gotten around to.

Does anyone have any other recommendations? I'm compiling a book wish-to-read list!

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