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strugglingclassicist · 3 years

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Hi, first of all I'm sorry if I'm bothering you, believe me this was not my intention... I saw a post of yours talking about how you know how to speak Latin, and, as a fellow classicist (I'm at second year of university, studying ancient Greek and Latin literature) I found the concept extremely fascinating, and I'd love to ask you if you have any tips on how to reach that level, or if you'd like to share your experience of the process of learning this skill.. (again, sorry to bother you and I hope I haven't made too many mistakes, English is not my first language..)

this is not a bother at all, in fact it is a topic I really enjoy talking about so thank you for asking !!!!!

What I think is very important is that you don't have to "reach a level" where your latin skills are good enough for you to be able to or allowed to dabble with spoken latin, you can start the moment you begin learning latin!

My journey with spoken latin actually started by my being dissatisfied and frustrated with my classics program and the teaching (t)here. I actually considered myself someone good with languages, like I went on exchange a year to Germany while in school and even tho I wasn't the quickest to better my language while there, I think I was the one who didn't feel frustrated or disheartened by this way of learning the language. But then I went from this experience with acquiring a language abroad to studying latin language at uni and I found it so. damn. Hard! somehow nothing wanted to stick and I grew frustrated at the way they wanted me to acquire the language and convey my latin skills. the grammatical meta-language has largely felt meaninglessly detailed and a bit nonsensical to me (outside the broader rules) so I find it hard remember, but that means I'm not able to express all of what I understand of the latin in class and on exams (especially the latter feels a bit disheartening). I also disliked that from day one the focus on reading latin texts was that every single word and grammatical construct had to be translated perfectly, and that was the only way I was shown to engage with latin. No room for "Even though I'm not able to translate every word and detail I get the gist of the text, understand what is happening, and can even explain some key aspects of the text" and then working up to being able to understand more and more details, just translate everything perfectly and you get only annoyance/not any credits if you try to express your understanding in a different way.

I do very much understand the importance of being able to explain and analyze the grammar and text in detail, but to have this as the sole approach to the latin language has always felt a bit constructed, unnatural, and unintuitive to me - which is where spoken latin comes in!

I was so lucky to encounter a spoken latin circle when I had a semester abroad at uni, which I felt gave me so much of what I'd felt lacking in my classes. It was enough that I mostly understood in general the gist of what was happening, I was able to pick up on new words as I heard them used around me (often with the result that I remember them better as well), and I was able to start uttering small sentences in latin myself.

Whenever I use latin actively I get to feel the limits of my latin skills, and through my desire to express myself I am also motivated to push myself to expand the comfort zone of my language skills, and to learn more. And I really do mean that spoken latin is something you can do from the minute you start learning the language!

A good exercise I've done some of is to sit down somewhere and see how much of my surroundings I'm able to describe in latin, and it can be fairly uncomplicated stuff, like "aedificium video", "ego in horto sum", "video amicas meas adesse". If you can it is something which can be fun to do with classmates or friends who also know some latin, and it should be something which is possible to do even after having learned latin for only a short time, if anything I find it is something which can really supplement your learning and help your familiarity and flexibility with the language!

I was lucky who was introduced to a spoken latin circle, and if you can't find that at your uni or in your city, I highly recommend trying to round up some classmates or friends who know some latin, or even older/younger students at your classics program - go together and learn to actively use the language together, and you can also learn from each other. If you're on your own, or between meeting up with others to practice spoken latin, I can also recommend trying to write in latin as well, and it can be just as simple and concrete as the examples for spoken latin until you feel comfortable trying to express yourself with more complexity.

I guess in general my tip is to treat latin a bit like any other language, and until recently it was a language used similarly to English today for those of us who aren't native speakers. I have a forefather who learned and had to speak latin in school, went on to become a professor and held lectures and correspondences and wrote books in latin. I also correspond with people abroad in English as a common tongue, have had plenty of lectures in English, 99% of my academic reading lists are in English, and I have had to write essays for uni in English, and all at a uni in my own country. I have had laymen and fellow students and professors alike treat latin as this super special scary difficult and very dead language which separates the worthy intellectuals from the hoi polloi. But Latin is mostly just like any other language, and like with other languages you improve your general language comprehension also through practicing your active language skills like speaking and writing. And with practice we get slowly better and better. I am still very much at an unadvanced state, but my goal is to be able to express both concrete experiences and ideas in latin, just as I've been able to do with English and German.

I feel like since I started focusing on my active latin skills, I'm slowly getting a more integrated relationship with the language. It feels good, and I hope you will have a similar positive experience from looking more into spoken latin!

#aahhhh this was so long but I've had SO many thoughts the past 2 years haha #tagamemnon #classics #lingua latina #asks #anon

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elysianslove · 3 years

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daily reminder that i love you <333

also i am cracking up at the whole 'which jjk character is it' thing going on with mushroom anon—like dw all of jjk’s cast are ridiculously attractive

also!!! sal lately i've had brainrot for a character trope that i have previously NEVER been into before: specifically the 'super capable but touch-starved and a bit emotionally constipated from trauma at a younger age' kind of people JXBEJJXNEN like??? the kind who can kick ass at any given time but has zero clue what premarital hand-holding is,,, ex: kageyama and giyuu 💀💀

but srsly i just wanna give them a hug and maybe a kiss on the forehead,,,

oh and i've officially finished high school!!! just gotta wait ‘til graduation. but after this i gotta take intensive german courses to study abroad and i'm so scared it’ll kick my butt 💔 how have you been faring??

— 💤 anon

bae,,, i love u too <333 and i miss u so much <333

and yes pls the description was so vague that it fits all of them dkshshdks 😭

PLS KAGS AND GIYUU BEING IN TEH SAME CATEGORY THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO W THEIR EYE COLOR AND HAIR??? immaculate. but wait i kinda love this too 😭 they're the kind that if you show them any affection they will literally just malfunction. it's so cute how flustered they'd get

AND !!!! IM SO PROUD OF YOU!!!! THAT'S AMAZING ARE U KIDDING!!!! im sososo proud what an accomplishment!!! and omg a friend of mine studies in germany and he said that like the main way he properly learned german was by interacting with other germans. he took classes too and those helped but you gotta like, watch things in german and speak it every once in a while yk! it'll get easier when you eventually move there, i hope so!

and i've been okay!! it's nearly the end of my semester at uni, also the end of my first year, which is kind of surreal if i’m honest. can’t believe it’s already over but also insanely grateful that it’s finally over. i hope these last few weeks pass by smoothly <3

anyways love u loads and i hope you’re doing well, kiss kiss mwah <3

#asks #sal speaks <3

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upside-down-uni · 4 years

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about my last reblog:

I'm only in my second semester in uni so it's not a thing to be organized yet but I know for sure that I want to go abroad for a semester. When it came up over dinner one time my dad, who is from Poland, suggested I'd go there. It's not like I hadn't considered that, I would've loved to go to Poland to study, learn the language and get in touch with how my dad grew up! But that was a year ago when going to uni was more of a plan than a thing I was actually doing. Right now? The thought of going to Poland scares me so much. I live in Germany. I'm SAFE HERE. While my queer siblings in Poland have to suffer under an oppressive government, open aggression, discrimination and the threat of much worse. And what took the cake for me is that my family, whom I'm out too, needed to be reminded how going to a country with an open anti-queer agenda Might Not Be The Safest Thing for their queer child?? My dad made a joke how I wouldn't have to pay rent if I got arrested for any reason. And all I could do was pretend to find that funny because it stole the air out of my lungs.

This needs to stop.

#mo talks #queer #poland #polish politics

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loveisbraveandwild · 5 years

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hi so i’ve gotten a lot of messages and asks/anons about attending the city of lover concert and i just want to tell my experience and explain how it happened, as well as address some things like my “views” on international fans and class. a lot of people are excited for me but i also came back tot some really really really hateful anons so i just wanted to clear everything up. the post is very long but it basically talks about being abroad, going to sessions, and then this weekend in paris.

as you may or may not know i’m currently doing a semester abroad in germany. i’m really fortunate to go to a university in the states that has a strong study abroad program allowing me to study in germany without paying an additional cost from what i already pay my uni. knowing i was going abroad, i saved as much money as possible because i knew i wanted to travel. because of my visa, i am not allowed to work in germany. i haven’t not had a job since middle school. as a full time student in the states i also work three jobs. during the summer i was working around 50-70 hours a week. i’m privileged and fortunate enough to be able to take out a lot of student loans and what i can’t take out, my parents pay. aside from my education, i fully pay for everything. traveling while abroad was a priority for me so i was able to save a good bit a money.

in addition to saving for abroad i was pocketing about $10/week for what at the time i knew to be the ts7 tour. when i got my call to go to rhode island and then nashville i spent every dollar i had for tour on a plane and airbnb in nashville. other people stayed in hotels, i stayed in a $34/night airbnb and while i always imagined my dad would be there when i met taylor, he couldn’t come. i was lucky that many of my friends who i met up with in nashville had parents generous enough to pay for multiple meals of mine. despite all of this, i recognize my privilege of being able to go to sessions. i was saving for things that definitely aren’t necessities because i have the means to between my babysitting, sales associate, and paid internship jobs. while i havent spoken about it much because i honestly don’t know how to talk about it without getting backlash, i want to make it very clear that i do not for a second take for granted the fact that i was able to fly to nashville with 8 days notice as a result of the class and financial situation i am currently in.

going back to abroad, i knew i was going to paris. i didn’t know when but its been a dream of mine since i started learning french at age 11. i imagined a short weekend with a few abroad friends to site see. when taylor announced the city of lover concert, i reached out to a couple of my international fan mutuals with the hopes of being able to meet up with them. i knew this concert was for international fans and i never for one second considered taking an opportunity away from an international fan. when yas and i discussed going to paris together it was clear that had she won tickets, she was going to go with someone else despite us staying together because we know there are people who have never seen taylor because of where they live. my plan was to go to the venue and meet up with friends and maybe catch a glimpse of scott or tree if we were lucky. i got a round trip flight for 97 euros and stayed in a hostel and explored paris alone for a few days until yas came to paris. my program doesn’t allow friday classes so i left thursday evening and then flew back to germany at 4am this morning because i had class at 9am. i did skip class on monday though, something i am eternally grateful for being able to do.

the day of the concert we arrived around 3 and met up with the handful of people we knew were going. the day of the concert i learned that doors opened at 6:00pm and the concert started at 8:30pm. i didn’t know this until i was in paris. i also got pickpocketed the day before the concert so wasn’t able to access social media with the exception of a few times because of yas’s generosity and willingness to let me use her phone. had i had full access to my phone, i would have posted when and where the concert was.

when we arrived there was a barricade section of people without tickets but with the hopes of going in. there were about two dozen of them and almost all, if not all of them were european swifties. we found it odd that they were holding these people considering staff said multiple times that there were no more tickets. however, yas and i were still planning to leave at around 6:15/6:30 after everyone was let into the concert. at around 5:45 we were still there, people were getting excited, and i said to yas “i want to get into the barricade. what’s the worst that can happen.” after they let the first group of people into the concert venue they opened the barricade and gave us all bracelets. i was about fifth from last to get my bracelet and they still had what looked to be 20 or so more bracelets to give out. i was shocked. i was crying, shaking, smiling, all the good things. i could not believe what was happened. i never went to the venue with the intentions of getting in even for a second but i knew that if i got into the barricade with literally fifteen minutes until the doors opened i wouldn’t be taking a spot from anyone if they did distribute tickets. there’s no way anyone could have predicted they would let us in because staff made if very clear both day of and days leading up to the event that all the tickets were won or bought. me being there did not take a spot away from anyone. if i hadn’t gone in that would have been one less person at the concert, not one more spot for an international fan. i recognize my privilege of being able to go to paris at all, let alone with someone i had never met before for an event i wasnt even going to.

i spoke a lot about the concert leading up to it, in addition to the experiences i’ve had since being abroad the last few weeks. i had no idea what its like to be an international fan and im frustrated that it took me walking a mile in international fans shoes to actually speak about it. i should have said something sooner, and i know that. i still stand by every single thing i said or reblogged about the injustices of being an international fan. again, my experience at the concert was not in spite of international fans. i want to continue to be an ally for international fans if welcomed to, but many of the anons i got suggested i should never talk about it again. additionally, i got a lot of asks about my privilege. this is something i know i need to address more directly and its honestly one of the hardest issues for me to talk about. the school i go to and the people i am surrounded by often puts me on the lower class side but in the real world and in this fandom i know i am extremely privileged. im not well educated on how to talk about my class privilege but its something i very much want to learn and so i am actively trying. this fandom has already taught me so much.

i’m sorry this is so long but i needed to get my story out because i’m still very distraught by the dozens of hateful asks i got about the concert. this was easily the second best weekend of my life and i boarded my plane back to germany shaking over the anons i knew i would come back to. i understand all the anger and frustration because i know there are people who have been here for years without even a notice let alone the opportunities i’ve gotten over the past month and a half. i want to talk about it but only in a constructive manner. i still dont have my phone to replies will be delayed but please feel free to comment, send me asks/anons, or messages if you took the time to read this post.

#long post

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am-molloy · 5 years

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20 Facts About Me: A.M. Molloy

Hello everyone! Welcome back (or to) my blog.

Today I thought I would share with you all 15 random facts that you may or may not know about me. These factoids may not have to with my writing life, but they’ll help you understand who I am as a person. So! Let’s take a dive into my life.

If you didn't know this already, I have a cat named Sorren. She is my soul-kitty and the love of my life. We’ve barely been apart the 11 years she’s been in my life. I wasn’t going to accept any job abroad unless I could bring her.

I love to travel. In fact, my first big travel was to a summer camp in China when I was 15, way back in 2004.

So far, I’ve been to (in order), China, America, Japan ( x3 ), Korea, (x3 ), Belgium, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Hong Kong, and Thailand. Being Canadian, I’ve obviously been to Canada, though I haven’t travelled as much within my own country. I do plan on visiting more countries soon, but for now, I’m planning another return visit to Japan for my upcoming summer vacation.

I am a 2nd-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, although it’s been a few years since I practiced due to financial issues. I would love to practice again, especially as I live in Korea now, but now is not the right time for me. I still have all my equipment and remember most of my forms so perhaps someday!

Side note, back in the day when I did practice, I used to go to competitions and would usually win first or second place. Usually first for forms and second for sparing. I rarely got lower and if I did it was for sparing. Forms were my strong suit.

I used to be an animator. I went to an art school studying animation and graphics and working in my field after graduation. Though if I’m being honest, I was never the best at animation. Still, art was more my thing. So when I worked for Contendo, I eventually gravitated towards mostly audio work and eventually becoming their Senior Audio Editor. I still do art, but it’s now for fun rather work. And let’s be honest, the art I did for Contendo isn’t what you would have expected me to be doing. At Contendo we made training videos for oil and gas companies.

Below is my super old demo reel, and I have improved since 2009 But this is to just show you what I used to do. I was by far the best but I enjoyed doing it all the same.

Note: The video is from my old YouTube channel from college. I do not use that channel anymore. If you want to see more up to date videos and life in Korea, check out my actual YouTube channel: Canadian Abroad: A.M. Molloy.

I have a total of 11 tattoos! (So far). Below is a slideshow from my very first tattoo (the tribal dragon when I was 17) to my latest, number eleven done this year in Korea (Sorren).

I am fluent in English, French, Spanish and I can speak intermediate Japanese (taught myself) and beginner Korean (also teaching myself).

My dad is French (from Quebec) so I learned English and French growing up in my household. I majored in Spanish at university and spent a semester in Spain as an exchange student.

I used to do a lot of cosplay, but I haven’t done so in years. I haven’t cosplayed very much and I reused the same cosplay for many cons (and halloween costumes) but I still enjoyed doing it all the same. I can’t sew so I always had help making them. I still appreciate a good cosplay from other cosplayers.

I love photography, though I’m still learning. I’m far from good but I’m getting better every day. I mostly take iPhone photography shots because I don’t always lug around my Nikon D3200. Honestly, with a bit of practice, anyone can make iPhone pictures turn out great. Featured below are a few of my favourite shots taken with my iPhone 8.

I have a wall of all my shots but my favourite will always be of my best friend, Leila, holding the Polaroid picture I just took of her. The picture of her holding the picture (INCEPTION) was also another iPhone shot.

I made my own language/culture because reasons. Mostly RP though. The language is called Hikaran and is spoken by a race on the planet Spira. I go into full length on said language and people in a previous blog post, so please, go ahead and check it out!

Admittedly, I made most of this up during math class in high school. It’s safe to say I’m not very good at math.

Anyway, instead of going into full detail here (because it’s in the blog post), I’ll just leave this popular Hikaran saying here:

While on exchange to Spain back in the summer of 2016, I met and shook hands with the queen of Spain in what I call a happy accident. One day I was walking around my school and taking a stroll around town and I noticed a blocked road a crowd starting to form where there usually isn’t. So, naturally, I had to get up front to see what was going to happen. Turns out the queen of Spain was in town and she took time to shake hands with people and I got lucky enough to be one of them. Moral of the story: when you see a tent or a barricade and people starting to gather where there usually isn’t, get up front because awesome things are gonna happen. Unfortunately, I don’t have a picture with her, but I do, however, have a picture of her. (Pictured above).

Back in high school, when it was time for graduation photos, we were told we could bring an item, like a soccer ball or baseball bat, if we wanted for our pictures. Being the cat-obsessed weird person that I am, I legit brought my cat, Marbles (AKA Mibs) in a duffle bag (it was open) to school for my picture. Needless to say, I was the talk of the school for bringing a cat haha. I lived super close to my school so I took my picture and brought her straight home. She hated going to school but was a good girl and took an amazing picture.

I’m a huge Harry Potter fan. Literally grew up with it. I was in the 6th grade reading the first three books because that’s all that was published at the time. When the first Harry Potter movie came out, I’ll never forget the experience. It was amazing and I loved every bit of it.

PS: I’m a proud Gryffindor. I also have many friends from all of the houses, but most of them are from Slytherin.

I grew with Pokemon. I was around when it was all first released and Pokemon Red was my first ever game I owned to go with the first ever consul I opened, Nintendo Colour. I buy every game, still collect cards, and I used to watch the anime. Pokemon will always have a special place in my heart.

My new all time favourite game is Life is Strange all other games in said franchise. THAT GAME IS MY LIFE, YO. I mean, if you noticed on fact number 5 that one of my tattoos is Life is Strange themed.

My favourite author is Rachel Vincent.

Literally, anything she writes is golden to me.

My favourite series of hers will always be the Soul Screamers series. I still can’t believe how she ended that series. Love it! I just get so invested in each world that she creates that I feel like I’m right there with the characters and I don’t know what to do with my life when I finish each book.

If you love reading, I highly recommend checking her out.

The origin of my author name: A.M. Molloy is basically the initials to my given name, Alex Molloy. However, in person, I prefer to be called Mina. Mina is my Korean name and to be honest, I was never fond of Alex. Since I live in Korea, everyone here calls me Mina. It makes me happy to hear people call me Mina. :3

My novel is in its third round of edits and beta reader stage. One of my beta readers created SOUTH’s very first meme! I’m so in love with it that I’m sharing it here.

So, my university had this mini ball pit kept in the student center. Once during a society meeting at my university, my friend and I decided to completely organize the ball pit into a rainbow. It literally took us forty-five mins straight but we did it! And then no one wanted to sit in the ball bit for like a week because they didn’t want to mess it up so we had to mess it up again so people would use it again.

During my second visit to Japan, I had the pleasure to meet a real sumo wrestler. It was an honour. I wish I could have seen an actual match but this was still awesome all the same.

I loved volunteering at my university for many things, but my favourite was being an NSO Leader. My last year at uni I had the privilege to be on the best team, Yellow Team, and had the most amazing crew. It was truly the best experience. I loved helping all the newcomers to UPEI and I would do it again in a heartbeat if I was still in school.

Well, you’ve made it this far! Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed learning a bit more about me. For now, this concludes my new post, 20 facts about me.

Take care.

— Mina (A.M. Molloy)

#FAQ #Ramdom Facts #Author

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mx-requests-forum · 6 years

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[Fulfilled] The New Teacher

Prompt: changki + high school au + teacher!Kihyun meets uni student!ck during winter break + ck is his student the following semester whose trying to seduce him

Fulfilled by Moderator ReeLee~

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Kihyun stares at his own reflection with a hint of smugness. He straightens his tie, pulls at his blazer once, and then heads out the door.

With a new class full of minds ready for molding, he can’t help but be a bit excited.

He travels quickly to his new place of work in the wee hours of morning. Four a.m., to be exact. After all, he still has to finish setting up his room, attend the faculty meeting at five, and mill about to get to know his fellow teachers. It’s always important to build up your own support system at a new school as early as possible, or else you’ll be losing your mind in the first semester.

He makes small talk with his peers after the faculty meeting, discussing this and that with Lee Minhyuk of the art department, and talking about the latest soccer stats with Shin Hoseok of the physical fitness department. Son Hyunwoo of the mathematics department seems to be a pretty good guy, despite how his muscles seem to be barely kept at bay by his shirt. Even Lee Jooheon in the music department, with his thin form and toned arms, seems to be quite the ball of energy.

All in all, Kihyun can tell he’s going to like this new position.

“Hyung,” Changkyun breathes out, taking his seat in the middle of the far row of the room, near the window, “I’m telling you, he was the hottest guy I’ve ever seen!” Hyungwon hums, not looking up from his notebook.

“I’m pretty sure you’re forgetting about half the staff here when you say that,” Hyungwon replies, chuckling under his breath. Changkyun pouts at this, his brow creasing together as he stares at his friend.

“But they’re teachers,” Changkyun fires back, “so they don’t count.” Hyungwon pauses then, looking right into Changkyun’s eyes.

“So, you’re saying you wouldn’t totally do Son-songsaengnim if given the chance?”

Changkyun’s face flares up in the brightest red Hyungwon’s seen on the boy’s skin in a while, and he has his answer. He chuckles knowingly as he returns his gaze to the front of the room, awaiting their teachers. From what he’s heard through the grapevine, he’s quite the eye candy himself… Honestly, Hyungwon’s starting to think it’s just a requirement for all teachers at this school to be hot beyond belief or something.

The door from the hallway opens, and an older man enters. His black hair is pushed back to reveal a widow’s peak, and a bright smile is seemingly plastered to his face. Hyungwon looks him up and down, ‘hmmph’ing under his breath. He seems cute, what with his short stature and almost-naïve smile, but he isn’t really Hyungwon’s type…

There’s a sudden gasp beside him, and Hyungwon turns with a suspicious glance towards his friend. Changkyun’s eyes are wide, but the light within them vacant. He raises a brow at the boy, then back to the teacher to whom Changkyun’s gaze is glued.

“What’re you studying?” the man had asked. Changkyun had hummed in his throat, his eyes flitting to the rafters of the ceiling playfully.

“Literature has always been one of my favorite subjects,” he began, “but foreign languages have always come easy to me, so…” He didn’t definitively say one way or the other, but the man didn’t seem to mind.

It’d been over winter break when it had happened. Changkyun was left in town alone, as all his friends and family members had gone away for the holidays. Of course, Changkyun had been invited to join them, but he hadn’t really felt like going abroad with his parents for the holidays. So, he feigned an illness just bad enough to get him out of traveling but not so serious so as to warrant his parents staying behind.

He’d gone to a coffee bar for a hot chocolate that evening, having not expected anything to happen. After all, the town had been all but dead for a week now. He’d dressed a bit more maturely, just because he could. He’d never had an issue with getting a drink if he wanted one, as he could always pass for at least two years older than his actual age, bus you never know with some people…

It had been then he’d met that beautiful, amazing man he’d been chatting Hyungwon’s ear off about ever since the older had gotten back from Germany. He hadn’t said what had happened after their conversation, the hot makeout session that’d left Changkyun’s skin feverish with desire for days after, but only of how he’d managed to trick this new guy in town that he was a college student.

Now, Changkyun finds himself face-to-face with the man from the coffee bar. His lips tingle with the memory of Kihyun’s soft mouth pressed against his. The sounds of their heavy breathing in that tiny bathroom echo in his ears, and a heat begins to pool in the base of his gut.

Look up, Changkyun mentally whispers, oblivious to the look unreadable look Hyungwon is currently giving him. Wait, no. Don’t look. Then you’d know I played you, that I wasn’t who I let you assume I was… You’d hate me then, and I can’t deal with that. Is it too late to switch out of this class? I can request a different teacher, maybe. I could—

Kihyun turns back from writing something on the board, his pink lips parted to probably start off the typical introductory lecture of the first day, but the words seem to die in his throat.

He makes direct eye contact with a kid by the window, the sunlight catching on his ebony hair. He’s staring wide-eyed at the teacher, a look of surprise similar to the light in Kihyun’s eyes.

Kihyun gulps thickly, averting his eyes and missing the knowing glance the boy’s friend gives the two of them. He loosens his tie, clearing his throat a little before beginning his pre-planned spiel about himself and his credentials.

He can’t dwell on how his own hands have slipped across his student’s bare skin, how his lips have brushed against and his teeth have sunken into the boy’s collarbone to leave several little hickeys here and there. The sweet little whimpers that had slipped form the boy’s now-agape mouth that day… These memories are enough to bring a certain tightness to Kihyun’s pants, and he’s just glad he’s got a desk to hide behind, though.

Changkyun straightens, though, immediately seeing the bodily reaction from the older.

“That the guy?” Hyungwon whispers to him, needing confirmation for his suspicions, but Changkyun doesn’t hear.

He only smirks, a myriad of plans coming to mind to continue where they’d had to leave off in that grimy hipster bar as he notes the way Kihyun squirms.

This year might just be much more fun than he’d thought before…

#changki #fulfilled request #fulfilled prompt #one shot #monsta x #monsta x fanfiction #im changkyun #yoo kihyun #i.m #high school au

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paw-sitivi-tea · 6 years

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Hi Yui! This may not be your typical ask - but I would love to know more about the education system in Austria and how welcoming they are to foreigners? I have a huge desire to study abroad there and I am just seeking first-hand experience (even if you are native)

Hey Anon! This is actually a very good question, and I will do my best to explain it to you! (I am not a Native, btw, but I have been enjoying Austrian education since primary school, so almost native ;-))I assume you are talking about university (feel free to send another ask if this isn't what you were asking for), but I will not be talking about private institutions because I don't know much them. First, I will introduce the kinds of universities we have, followed by the admission requirements, fees (and stipends/benefits) and the atmosphere (tolerance, culture, image, etc.) Thia is going to be a looooong post...

There are two kinds of institutions considered as universities: the actual universities/UNI (23 public, 19 private) and what's known as the "University of Applied Sciences" (UAS) (about 20 of them) Both offer BA and MA degrees (or the equivalent), but UAS do not offer doctor/PhD programmes.

UNIs have more freedom in regards to classes: you make your own timetable by choosing what classes you want to do at what time and in what pace. Of course, there is a certain amount of credits and courses needed for a degree, and some need to be taken first or require other exams to get in. You are also allowed to enroll at more than one university (like me!) if you want. It can get a little hectic, but some people just want to study Linguistics AND Architecture. *shrug*Though the system is very flexible, those who work full-time will definitely have difficulty to attend class. Part-time workers who work less than 25 hours a week will have to plan very carefully to keep up with those who study full time, but it is possible.

UAS offer programs that are tailored for certain careers, and function like schools: you get a timetable, do projects, exams, and internships. They do offer programmes designed for part-time or full-time workers, but full-time (student) programmes offer little flexibility. Enrolling at more than one UAS is logistically almost impossible...and not really necessary.

As for admission, the following are always required (for international students):

Proof of your nationality (passport photocopy, in colour!)

a secondary school leaving certificate or an equivalent that would allow you to study at a university/college in your home country

If you are from a non-EU/EAA country: A certificate which proves that you are allowed to study at a university (this may vary from uni to uni, please email the students office for details! )

Proof of your German language proficiency (either at least 4 years of regular German lesson or level B2 or the equivalent, music schools are usually content with B1)After you contacted the students office (always do that if you are unsure) and your documents are alright, there will be an entrance exam (but not for all programs. I can't name it here bc post is getting too long, but just throw an ask!) They can be part online (motivation letter) and part (or fully) written / oral. Usually, they take place during Jun/Jul/Sept for winter semester, or Jan/Feb for summer semester (may vary!) The scores are ranked and the best get in.

Now we get to the fees. As of December 2017, non-EU/EAA students have to pay a tuition fee of 726.72€ per semester, and a 19.20€ fee for the student organization (everyone has to pay that, even if you're not required to pay tuition fees). A permanent waiver of tuition fees applies to students of several least developed countries, poke me for a link to the list.

You can also apply for stipends (but not for benefits), requirements vary, but normally, you get around 700 - 1500 € (min. and max. respectively) per semester (usually around 1000€, speaking from experience)

Now, the question concerning the acceptance of international students in Austria. Let me say that the majority doesn't really care where you are from except Germany (lol just joking) The students are very tolerant and happy to see something else. Austria is a country with all kinds of nationalities and cultures, after all. While the current less-middle-more-right coalition worries me... You won't get harassed on the street and kicked out of shops because of your nationality. It’s safe here (despite the annoying nationalist parties) for most of the time.Older Austrian people can appear as rude and grumpy, but they are not coldhearted, it’s just their way of being, uh, friendly. The younger generation will most likely bombard you with questions or/and treat you like a normal fellow student. we don’t bite ^.^Just know that there are good and people everywhere ^-^

Experience: Uh, I don’t know? There are a lot of student discounts? Depending on the size of the university, it might be hard to make friends at first. Everyone will have a different schedule planned, so it’s hard in the beginning. (#studygroups!) I am bad at describing my experience except for saying “good” or “less than pleasant” or “brilliant”, so the questions have to be a bit more specific...

I hope I could answer your question! If note, poke me ^-^(but come to us, we have good chocolate and coffee and cake!)Have a good day, everyone!

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altpapier · 7 years

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Jimmy Eat World - The Middle

your first holidays on your own. Three weeks, going to a language school in Bournemouth, living in a hostel with all the other students. At home, this boy has broken your heart so you’re glad to get away from everyone for some time. Your hostel room is small but you have a windowsill to sit on and you listen to the seagulls all day and watch the people in the street and write postcards on the beach, and sometimes at night you cry a little while eating grapes and Quavers. You're only 17 and suddenly the world feels so huge and free and you're not sure if you're ready for this. But Jimmy Eat World tells you that everything will be just fine, and you know that it will.

Coldplay - Magic

a year later. The impossible has just happened, you and your friends have passed the final exams with decent marks and that means, no school ever again! It feels like a weird dream. What happens after school? You can't just stop being a student? So you float around aimlessly, drinking a little grapefruit beer here and a little vodka-o there, and sitting in the grass might not be the best idea if you're allergic to pollen, but you can’t resist being next to her. She takes you to every city in Germany with her captivating green eyes and dances with you in her blue dress the night of the prom. You get a little sentimental about not seeing everyone again but in this moment, you're still together and you swear you'll stay in touch.

Alle Farben - She Moves

you can do anything you want now, since you're 18 and finished school, right? So that's what you do. You pack your bags for an Interrail trip across Europe, you want to go to every party in Amsterdam and hold hands with random strangers in Paris while eating cheese and go skinny dipping in the South of France and sing karaoke in Barcelona and live the luxurious life in Vienna. On your second day, you kind of fall in love with an American and let him convince you to come to Madrid. So you meet him again and you eat lots of grapes and fried eggs and he always makes sure you eat enough and he introduces you to classical dancing and buys you strawberry daiquiri and chocolate Churros and he makes a joke out of jumping on the elevator because he knows about your claustrophobia but he still rides it with you every time and he accepts you the way you are. You stay for longer than you'd intended to, but eventually you're alone again in a run-down 2 star hotel by the station in Genova, and you get lost and you're scared of the dark.

Lost Frequencies - Reality

another summer has passed. You haven't noticed because you've had too much alcohol in the meantime, but at least she's still with you. Her hands feel like a home you don't want to leave. But you know you have to. And you're both scared of the future and of your lives and if you could, you'd just stay in that shisha bar forever, or in this night where you were dancing until 5 in the morning with your eyes closed and when you eventually opened them, you were the only people in the club. But nothing is forever, and soon all of this might just be memories of a past life. So you spend the nights at her house, and in the morning you ride your bike back to your parents' over the fields in the summer heat, and you listen to this song and sing along, "Today I got a million, tomorrow I don't know."

Ashley Hicklin - City Lights

the first melancholy of leaving home but finding a partner in a foreign place. A little hint of being loved turns into a relationship because you're both a bit lost. Falling asleep with different sounds at night, walking different streets every day. University hasn't started yet and everything makes you cry. You're not homesick because you've stopped feeling anything at all. A dreamy state of going home for the weekend and coming back to your lover on Sunday evening and not knowing where to expect peace. It's weird to have a daily routine in a place where you didn't grow up.

Jetta - Feels Like Coming Home

it's December and you're still with him. He makes you feel less lonely, you eat takeaway pizza with him at night and study together and get to know each other's bodies and walk through the darkness of the city that doesn't even seem that terrifying anymore. He puts on a playlist of English lullabies on YouTube when you can't sleep and the Top 100 Charts of Germany when you want to dance and he lets you write poetry while he makes Asian noodle soup and when he plays League Of Legends next to you in the bed, he gets angry when you accidentally touch the mouse.

Coucheron - Deep End

it ends, like everything does. You are the one to end it, after trying to fix it with some new red lipstick and a nice dress and lots of patience but he just didn't love you anymore. So you sit in your geography lecture and you text him "Can we meet later? We need to talk" and you're so nervous but then you just say it - and it's over, just like that. On the pavement between building 1 and 2, the decision is made and can't be reversed. You only cry for a second until you realise there is nothing to cry about. It was the right thing to do, the only choice you had. When you come home, the flat feels empty and big. Like something is missing. You tell your flatmate about it and she almost cries and wants to know why. "It's okay", you laugh. But you both know that your laugh is fake.

Joe Brooks - Wildflowers

four weeks after the heartbreak. You're finally getting to know this city without him. You drive to the lake and dance on your own and let strangers touch you and when you cry at night, you call your best friend and he talks to you until you fall asleep. You write the lyrics on a piece of paper, "You belong somewhere you feel free", but you never hang it up in your room because there's no space on the walls.

Charming Horses - Higher Love

your best friend visits you just to make sure you're alright. He lives 300 miles away from you, and you don't see each other often. You're happy that he came, and you show him all the famous sights in the city and, of course, the best club. You dance until the morning, you accidentally fall asleep in his arms, and when you wake up, his lips are touching yours.

Jamie Lawson - Wasn't Expecting That

the next day, it happens again. He has a girlfriend, you didn't mean for this to happen. You talk a lot, and you agree that time will sort it out. "Let's just be friends, isn't that better?" you say. And the next second, after kissing him, you say, "It's a pity we're just friends. Your kisses feel so good."

Lighthouse Family - (I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be) Free

Portugal with your boyfriend. You made it, the fate seems to be on your side for once: the two of you have been together for seven months now. This is your first holiday together. You rented a little bungalow directly by the sea and you spend all your days relaxing on the beach. You read a lot and when you cry because the book is sad, he takes you in his arms. You paint a lot and even though you paint like a 5-year-old child, he loves it and encourages you to carry on. You've picked up your passion for filming and photography again, and he is your model. Every morning, you make a breakfast out of the few things you've got in the fridge. Every night, you drink cocktails at a little bar you've discovered. Then you watch the sunset. And when you return to the bungalow, euphoric and drunk, you jump and dance on the king size bed until you fall asleep on his chest.

The Chainsmokers - All We Know

it's a long distance relationship, so most days don't look like your week in Portugal. You slip into the usual supermarket and uni routine again, not doing much apart from that; the long walk home, the music TV with its same three songs every day to kill the silence. Occasional pasta, but if you're too lazy to make it, crisps will do. From the outside it looks like a regular student's life. Minus the parties and the friends, which just makes it pretty pathetic.

Avicii - What Would I Change It To

you're on the airplane. You were so scared of going abroad for a whole semester, but suddenly you get the feeling that maybe this isn't going to be so bad! You already miss your parents and your boyfriend - but you've always liked to be away from humanity for a little while. You turn the music up louder and think to yourself, "Why would I replace the sky? Why would I recreate that perfect blue?"

Architecture in Helsinki - Escapee

the grass is wet and your socks are, too, but you learned that's nothing unusual here. This is the soundtrack for long morning walks through Tesco. You've finally got a bunch of friends, and there's more parties than you could ever go to. You're in your room, drinking tea (this is Britain!) and working on your assignment when suddenly, a song on Spotify reminds you of your very first holidays in Britain. Not the very first ones, because you were only 11 months old then. You think of that time when you were in Bournemouth. And you realise that it's still true: Everything will be just fine.

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baronessblixen · 7 years

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This is for @jamofappreciation‘s Day 17. I'm putting it under a cut cause I tend to ramble on and on and I'm sure most of you don't want to read this.

So college. Unlike most people, college was not the "best time of my life". Not even close. I started out a small university about 3 hours away from home cause here in Germany college is free, but each field of study has a numerus clasus in places that are popular. I live in the biggest city in Germany, which is also, if you ask me the BEST city here, so of course it's popular. Anyway, my grades weren't good enough to stay home and I left. I hated that small town and knew I wanted to transfer back. Funnily enough, that's the only semester in all my college time that I actually made friends. I'm still in contact with one of the guys I met there. The reason I wanted to transfer back was because I missed home. The reason I missed home, though, was that my mother's cancer had come back and I didn't know how bad it was, or I was in denial; I just knew I wanted to GO HOME. So I did.

Well, even at home, I was mostly bored with my studies: English and German. It was a lot of presentations and unfortunately, when I started college, they were just going through a process of changing the whole thing. We didn't used to have Bachelor and Master Degrees. College used to be really independent here and it wasn't anymore. It felt like school. I hate being told what to do or what classes to attend and so I often didn't. I didn't have any friends at uni during that time, then my mom's health declined and after her death I couldn't have cared less for my studies. I went abroad for one semester a couple of months later and to this day I wish it had happened at a later time cause I was so depressed that I barely did anything. I rewatched all 9 season of x-files in less than a month while in another country. So yay. I went back home, still depressed, and even though I only had like one semester left, I considered quitting. In Germany you don't have to attend college for all jobs so I figured I could do something else, learn something on the job. Didn't work out so I stayed at uni. Instead of a regular 3-year BA, it took me 5 years though because I fucking didn't care.

You'd think after that I'd be happy and all like, nice, let's find a job. No. I decided to get my Master's Degree. This time, though, I wanted to do it differently. I attended the classes (even though some of them were so boring like O M G), put more thought into my essays (well, most of them) and actually took my time writing my thesis. I wrote my BA thesis in one night. People don't believe me when I say this sometimes, but I did. I'm not proud of it. But I did. So my time at uni for my MA was much better. A lot of things were much better at that time.

I want to go back to college at some point in my life. As soon as I figure out what I want to BE. I didn't know at 17, and I still don't know today, but it's probably something else.

#30 day project #this is kinda really personal haha #personal #i miss college #i mean i miss the hours #i miss being able to do my work at night #and not for 8 hours 5 days a week #it's nice to get paid though #college life

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theadventuresofthewallnutt · 7 years

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Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können

These months abroad have flown by, and while most things here are all just fun and games, I have been experiencing a major change in my life. Wintersemester, although it wasn’t too challenging, left me in a state of minor emptiness, as if I wasn’t accomplishing what I was meant to accomplish here in Tübingen. After some traveling to a couple of different countries and cities during my two-month Semesterferien, I finally started Sommersemester in Mid-April, but this lethargic feeling that I had within me hadn’t subsided.

“It is normal to feel this way when you are abroad after one semester,” my advisor told me, “It is normal for students to question themselves on who they are and what they are doing.” I came here thinking that I knew who I was and what I will become, but what changed all of this...?

Firstly, it’s the environment here. The understanding that the society works differently here in Germany has been difficult to a minor degree. The tempo here I feel like is much SLOWER than in the U.S., for example, on Sundays the stores and most restaurants are closed, resulting in people forcing themselves to have a rest day which can consist of sleeping in, doing homework, working out, spending time with friends and family, etc. or any combination of these things. Back at home, I felt like I always had to be doing something and could never catch a break. I never sat down for tea or coffee with my friends in order to catch up on life or talk about what is bothering both of us at that time. I am a person that puts all of my energy in constantly chasing something, always looking toward the future rather than experiencing the present.

Because of the people here, whether it be Germans or other international students, I have also developed new cultural interests and understandings. This affected what I wanted to study at Uni. I knew before coming here that I have a particular affinity for learning foreign languages, but I wasn’t sure what exactly I wanted to learn first. When I get back home, I will be studying German as well as Korean and Spanish as minors. In fact, I have already started the process for another study abroad but this time I will be studying in Seoul in order to experience the vastly different culture there as well as learn the language like I did with German here.

My personality is in the process of unraveling as well. I used to involuntarily show disinterest or discomfort when I met someone new or didn’t want to talk about something, but now, according to other people, that aspect of socially connecting with others is changing every-so-slightly as well. I have also taken up reading literature again, a hobby that unfortunately withered while I was in high school. Now I actually take joy in finishing a book from cover to cover (or location to location, since most of my reading is done on my tablet).

There are many times where I caught myself reassessing who I was and what I wanted to change about myself. These occurrences were definitely stressful but necessary to who I would like to be in the future. I learned that with time and dedication, you could change yourself if you really want to, whether it means to be more kind or to be more friendly.

“It wouldn’t be natural if you didn’t feel this sensation while you are here,” my advisor explained, “This shows that you are one step closer to becoming an adult.”

#germany #deutschland #study abroad #tübingen #find yourself

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mujournalismabroad · 7 years

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Two weeks in Edinburgh have flown by

Story and photo by Madeleine Sutherland from Edinburgh, Scotland

From the moment I arrived at the airport in Edinburgh, I felt as though I had been picked up by some great guiding hand and plopped down in a new place. Scratch that, a new life.

Edinburgh appeared murky. I had been warned about the ever-grey skies and the mist and the constant melancholia that surrounds great Gothic cities like this one.

But it's not melancholy at all; it's a city full of life, which I learned quickly. Must be because it rains so much.

Allow me to cover the basics:

My accommodation is clean, modern, homey and located in the west-central part of the city. I'm a (brisk) 15-minute walk from the city centre and only a 10-minute walk from Grassmarket (a square full of cozy shops, including the best second-hand shop of all time) and a great Irish pub called Finnegan's Wake.

I hang with people from all over the world. Napier is full of international students, whether they be on exchange like me or full-time students. My roommates are from Germany, Canada, America and Hong Kong, to give you an idea.

I have lots of free time. This free time has allowed me to relax for the first time in a while. I have finished a whole book, a website and written some things since being here.

The food amazing, but take that with a grain of salt. Because I am in Edinburgh, the food is very "city," meaning that it's not quite authentic. You can get fish and chips and haggis for sure, but the real Scottish food lies outside of Edinburgh and north, in the Highlands, waiting for me to try it. Stay tuned.

The accent varies. Sometimes it's not an accent, it's another language. (More on this after I visit Glasgow this weekend.)

The beer is better here and the whiskey is good as well, if you like whiskey. I, however, have discovered that whiskey and my throat are not good friends. I shall stick with my Bloody Mary, thank you.

"Uni" is structured much differently here; it's mainly independent study. There are a few, and I mean few, required readings for each class, and then a ton of suggested readings. The professors tell you to read only what you're interested in--a revolutionary concept! They expect two groundbreaking essays during the term: one due in the middle of the semester and one at the end. Those two assessments are all you're graded on. And they don't give high marks. A 60% or above is considered an excellent grade. Below 40% is failing.

The birds only sing at night. That might not be an actual factual fact, but the only time I have heard the chirping of birds is around 8 p.m. It's eerie and totally, completely the way it should be.

There are many wonderful and different things about Edinburgh, and frustratingly a lot of them are kind of hard to put into adequate words. The weather is cool but not cold. The rain is constant, yet it seldom touches your head. Life resides above me in the clouds and around me on the busy streets. I have never felt safer in a city. The people are almost Midwestern, they're so kind. The greatest overarching theme is that I can breathe. My eyes are open to new things, but also to old ones that I haven't seen for a while because I've been so busy achieving, pushing forward, always going ahead. Life is lived at a different pace here, and I am learning to live with it.

Some great friends and Erasmus buddies have made the transition into this new life pretty easy. It's been better than I ever could have expected, and I've only been here for two weeks. What's to come, I hope, will be even better.

My friends and I are going out to sing karaoke tomorrow night, at which time I will bless Edinburgh with a glorious rendition of a Fleetwood Mac song. They love the '80s here. Also, do yourself a favor and look up what a Scottish Ceilidh is. I'm going to one next week on Burns's night.

This post is a general one, but from here on out I'll give more specific accounts of things in Edi and in cities that I visit abroad. I have many trips planned! Get ready to hear about Glasgow, Dublin, Isle of Skye, Inverness, Stirling, Amsterdam, Brussels, Prague, Vienna, London, Dunrobin, Marseilles, Montpelier, Barcelona, Rome, Zurich, Geneva, Lyon, Frankfurt, Hanover, Copenhagen and Stockholm.

Think I'm biting off more than I can chew? We'll find out. All I know is I have flights to book, coffee to drink and 35 chapters of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" to read for next week.

#edinburgh #edinburgh napier university #studyabroad #MUJA #mizzou #scotland

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greenshappiness · 7 years

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To the better version of me, have fun in Germany

We used to sit side by side all day every day. She’d lean her head against my shoulder in the boring classes. She’d bring those white cheese sandwiches and I’d hate that smell in silence; I just wouldn’t ruin her enjoyment with a tomato and cheese sandwich because I can’t stand the smell of cheese, no, not a chance. We used to talk for 7 hours a day five days a week and on the weekends we’d spend endless hours on the phone…..God I miss school! Because I can run out of digital ink just talking about those times, the best times.

Now, Uni has hit us with its cruel reality and both of us are following our dreams, her dream wasn’t in my uni and mine wasn’t in hers either. We didn’t let that stupid college life bring us down! We adjusted. Of course we fidgeted the first semester of our freshman year but by the second one, we were getting the hang of things, we’d call from time to time and meet up sometimes and of course we’re texting most of the time!

The word bestfriend doesn’t cover who she is to me, we’re Brian and Dom, Harry and Ron, Kirk and Spock, Christmas and Ross, Stiles and Scott, Jay and Kay, Chuckie and Will, Morgan and Reid, Danny and Steve, Sam and Dean, Sherlock and Watson, Astrid and Walter, Ryan and Esposito, Crane and Shore, Rigsby and Cho, Speed and Delko, Monica and Rachel, Sheldon and Lenny, Chandler and Joey, Christina and Meredith; we’re all of that and more; she’s my person and all.

I don’t remember us ever fighting a real fight, even a boy couldn’t get between us (if you know what I mean), and nothing ever managed to draw us apart. We’re both crazy but we’re crazier together. She’s got my back like how Brian got Dom’s, loves me like how Style loves Scott. In every tight friendship and bromance I can always relate to us. It may not seem that we’re always on each other’s mind but she always comes first, and we’re always within each other’s hearts.

I’ve always believed in her, even more than she ever did in herself. Always been sure that she’s gonna do great and all her efforts will eventually pay off. So, when she applied for a semester abroad, I was damn sure she’s gonna get it. She’s had her doubts about getting it tho, while I was actually practicing screaming “SEE? I TOLD YA! I TOLD YA YOU’D GET IT! WHAT DID I TELL YOU? WHAT DID I TELL YOU, DUDE!?” in her face whenever the good news struck. Guess I can’t deny the fact that I’ve seen it coming, her leaving, I mean….

But it’s not for too long, it really isn’t. Just for 6 months, 6 fuckin months. 184 fucking days, as in 4416 hours but who’s counting, right? I mean I can manage the first 3 months busying my-damn-self with my studies but seriously tho WHAT ABOUT SUMMER? I know, I know, we never really spent summer 24/7 with each other BUT STILL! I’m really fucking calm about this; I mean, it’s only for TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY FOUR THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED AND SIXTY FUCKING MINUTES! (Yes, I am freakin counting; SUE ME!) I’m just-I guess- I’m never used to anyone leaving me –and I never will be- to be honest. But this time, this time is not like any other time, I feel like a part of me is leaving my body, like somebody’s depriving me of food (Trust me, it’s never good). I don’t really know how I’m gonna function this whole time without her…..She’s my person, MY PERSON, I talk to her about anything and everything, she’s the one I’d go to when I’m feeling like…..-like-this. Who am I supposed to go to now?

I’m happy and sad, excited and mad, proud and worried, I’m everything and its opposite. I just wanna say that: I know as much as you’re excited -and as much as I am too, for you- you’re as scared -as I am- of leaving and being on your own for 6 months. And I’m right here telling you that it’s gonna be great! You’re gonna be fine; you’ll meet different kinds of people, make new friends, love life even more and before we -both- know it you’ll be back here with me telling me all about the adventures you’ve had.

BAAAAAHHHAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH I can’t handle 184 hourssssssss KIDDIN! Oh actually I’m not, I mean…..this, this is different, too different, for me, for you, for the both of us. We’ve been through so much so far and living in a different continent won’t stop us from being there for each other, pretty sure it won’t. So you take care of yourself there, alright? Don’t make me kill for you (you know I would). Remember me when you burn your dorm room (still wish it wouldn’t get to that!)

Alavio, laff.

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cometothedarksidewehavecupcakes · 7 years

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ALL THE QUESTIONS

WHOAAAAA ok here we go!

1. Would you have sex with the last person you texted?

No i am not really into orgies… i imagine they are quite confusing. (It was a group chat)

2. You talked to an ex today, correct?

No, we don’t talk anymore.

3. Have you taken someones virginity?

4. Is trust a big issue for you?

it’s important for me but i am big on the oversharing! so i tendt to trust people easily and then later regret having told them stuff

5. Did you hang out with the person you like recently?

i don’t really like anyone right noww, sadly. A crush can be fun

6. What are you excited for?

Going abroad to Dublin for a half a year! although i still need a place and i will leave in septemeber

7. What happened tonight?

not much yet, i woke up quite late and since then i procrastinated the shit out of the day!

8. Do you think it’s disgusting when girls get really wasted?

No! my main thought would be to look out for them, because being a wasted girl can be fucking dangerous and if it happens more often i may ask them if there is something that i can help them with, you know if there is an alternative motive then just enjoying oneself! And if she likes loosing control like that, than that’s fine, who am i to judge her?

9. Is confidence cute?

yes! i think confidence is attractive and cute and i don’t like the way women are told it’s not cute. And that a confident woman is a slut or a bitch or conceited. As long as that confidence doesn’t make you look down on other people its good. It is also ok to be shy. Basically what i am saying is you do you and you are perfect and good and cute regardless of confident or shy

10. What is the last beverage you had?

coca cola

12. Do you own a pair of skinny jeans?

yes

13. What are you gonna do saturday night?

going out to eat with my mum and talk.

14. What are you gonna spend money on next?

groceries ( i know very unspectacular)

15. are you going out with the last person you kissed?

16. Do you think you’ll change in the next 3 months?

Yes, i hope so! i hope i can work out that issue i have and just move past it and go strong into my semester abroad. (i also belive in constant growth, soo yeah everyone changes in 3 months)

17. Who do you feel most comfortable talking to about everything?

My mum and best friend!

18. The last time you felt broken?

Puhhh a few months back i uncovered something quite dark and i am not done with it, so i still feel broken sometimes when i look at it. (sorry for being so cryptic but i am not ready yet to go public with that)

19 Have you had sex today?

nope

20. Are you starting to realize anything?

yes, that i am stronger than i think and i can survive this.

21 Are you in a good mood?

Generally yeah, but a bit stressed and anxious due to the paper i need to write

22 Would you ever want to swim with sharks?

No i don’t think so, i am a real big chicken and am fucking afraid of sharks, which is a unreasoned fear, and i love to educate myself about sharks and stuff and i am fro their rescue and saftey, but i don’ want to SWIM with them, maybe look at them from a boat!

23. Are your eyes the same color as your dad’s?

no, i have the eyes from my mum

24. What do you want right this second?

Being done with this semester, especially that dreadful paper!

25. What would you say if the person you love/like kissed another person?

That depends, if it would be emotional ‘cheating’ not cool, i would get out of that relationship. But if it happened while intoxicated or something then it would be a wake up call to address the issue that was the reason of that happening. I believe love is not something that just stays you do need to work on it and commit and not run away when confronted with difficulties.

26. Is your current hair color your natural hair?

Kinda. Its blond but the ends are lighter. I will go cotton candy pink in the summer though.

27. Would you be able to date somebody who wouldn’t make you laugh?

No, what would you do? just talk about deep stuff ALL the time? no i need somebody i can have fun with as well as deep conversations etc.

28.What was the last thing that made you laugh?

I can’t really remember, something some of my friends said and the last night of the festival. we laughed so much, which was nice bc at that point i was a bit annoyed by everything and that was just a wonderful break of that and a wonderful ending to an exciting weekend

29. Do you really,truly miss someone right now?

I always miss my mum and dad and my tight knit friend group at home. I miss the spontaneity to meet up or the nights of conversation on the balcony or couch with my mum after i return from work or a party or something.

30. Does everyone deserve a second chance?

I think so! i believe humans are in general inherently good. But it should only be a second chance. When it comes to relationship i think thats especially important, as you also need to look out for yourself. And concerning prisons for example the second chance should be a REAL second chance, and not be designed for the inmates to fail at rehabilitation.

31. Honestley do you hate the last boy you were talking to?

No, not at all! quite the contrary, he is a sweetheart! Also if i hate someone (which also is quite the strong word) i would keep talking to them.

32. Doesn’t apply, i do not have a person i like right now

33. Are you one of those people who never drink soda?

no, i once regularly drank cola, like every night. Those were the good days when i could still afford them :P

34. Listening to?

Imagine dragons-gold

35. Do you ever write in pencil anymore?

I normally prefer to write in pencil

36. Do you know where the last person you kissed is?

37. Do you believe in love at first sight?

No i only believe in attraction at first sight! love, in my opinion, is something that develops over time.

38. Who did you last call?

My mum, yesterday, although technically she called me but i can’t remember beyond that.

39. Who was the last person you danced with?

a friend of mine at the festival

40. Why did you kissed the last person you kissed?

because it was summer, i was in L.A. and felt adventurous (he wasn’t the best kisser, tho, so disappointment there)

41. When was the last time you ate a cupcake?

Way too long ago :(

42. Did you hug/kiss any of your parents today?

sadly no beacuase i live in the netherlands and they are in germany.

43. Ever embarrass yourself in front of your crush?

I can’t remember a specific thing, but who doesn’t?

44. Do you tan in the nude?

I don’t tan ind general, i am the whitest white person, i get sunburned after like 5 min in the sun….

45. If you could would you take back your last kiss?

Hmm, i normally would nevre take something back that i’ve done (that didn’t hurt somebody else) bc i believe all those things shaped me into the person i am today, but i may take the kiss and give it to somebody else that i met just days later. He deserved that kiss so much more

46. Did you talk to someone until you fell asleep tonight?

no, i was alone and i loved it

47. Who was the last person to call you?

my mum

48. Do you sing in the shower?

Do you pee on the toilet? YES of course i do, a shower with out a private concert is not a shower its just sad

49 do you dance in the car?

Again WHO doesn’t? my moves are the greatest joy on a car ride! my mum and me had the best dance sessions while waiting for a green light!

50. Ever used a bow and arrow?

Yes and it was sooo long ago, at least 10 years! It was at a class trip and extreme fun.

51. Last time you got a portrait taken by a photographer?

technically i can’t remember, but last year a friend of mine who is a photographer came on a roadtrip with me and also took some photos of myself. Does that count?

52. Do you think musicals are cheesy?

There are cheesy musicals for sure, but Hamilton was fucking amazing and i would call it cheesy. In general i enjoy musicals, cheesy or not

53. Is chrismas stressfull?

it can be, but i still love it and once everyone is sitting around the table and ate its the relaxing and fun and nice to have everyone around

54. Ever ate a pierogi?

No but maybe tis will change now that i have a teeny tiny polish cousin

55. Fav type of fruit pie?

Apple

56. Occupations you wanted to be when a kid?

The usual, doctors but after discovering i would need to put down animals and see blood i very quickly diverted my interest into becoming a flight attendant just like my dad.

57. Do you believe in ghosts?

58. Ever have a deja-vu feeling?

waaaaay too often! when i wrote this i had one… and they range from very specific to rather unspecific, like just a feeling

59. Take a vitamine daily?

i try and that reminds me…

60. Wear slippers?

since i moved out, yes. because students aren’t the tidiest

61. Wear a bathrope?

nope

62. What do you wear to bed?

shirt and undies

63. First concert?

Anastacia with my dad

64. Wal-mart, target or k-mart?

i think wal-mart. but target is not bad either

65. Nike or adidas?

neither, converse

66. Cheetos or frietos?

no idea what frietos, so neither?

67. Peanuts or sunflower seeds?

both

68. Fav taylor swift song?

puhhh, 22? i am not sure actually

69. Ever taken dance lessons?

Yes, i started with ballet and then moved on to videodancing. So i danced since i was 8 or 9. i also did a stint in traditional stuff like waltz and stuff but that did not last long. and i tried out some dance lessons when i moved away to uni

70. Is there a profession you picture your future spouse doing?

71 Can you curl your tongue?

yes

73 Have you ever cried because you were so happy?

yes! for example when i cam back from my half a year abroad in australia and my best friends picked me up and had a banner and everything.

74 What is your fav book?

so many…. Harry potter and dash and lily’s book of dares are the ones that come to my mind spontaneously but a lot more have shaped my life in significant ways and would be counted as my favs

75 Do you study better with or without music?

Depends on the topic

76 Regularly burn incense?

77 Ever been in love?

yes, once

78 Who would you like to see in concert?

Imagine dragons, again! they are just so fucking amazing live and in my eyes even better than on their albums. Lorde i would also like to see again. but mainly imagine dragons right now. Oh and young the giant

79. What was the last concert you saw?

Casper (a german rapper) who closed the hurricane festival on sunday.

80. Hot tea or cold tea?

middle ground but leaning towards cold

81 Tea or coffe?

tea

82 Fav type of cookie?

fresh subways cookies

83 Can you swim well?

i think so? I never thought about it… but i guess i don’t drown so i cant be that bad

84 Can you hold your breath without holding your nose?

yes

85 Are you patient?

i like to believe i am, most of the time

86 DJ or band at a wedding?

i don’t know, i guess dj then you can request stuff and there is no time limit for the music?

87 Ever won a contest?

i don’t think so

88 Ever has plastic surgery?

89 Which are better black or green olives?

none, i hate olives

90 Opinions of sex before marriage?

Yes, do it if you want and feel comfortable with it, but i won’t judge you if you choose otherwise as long as you don’t judge other people or try to push your believes on them i am fine with whatever.

91 Best room for a fireplace?

from the top of my head i would have said living room but i think it could also be cool in the bedroom

92 Do you want to get married?

if i meet the right guy and it feels right, then why not

Puhh that was ALOT!

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