Taking memory snap shots when the camera fails, paying too much money for the photographs and feeling my legs turn to spaghetti after pushing myself just a little too hard. Today I was the tiger sitting at that table with the little girl in the blue dress with a red ribbon in her hair and not the other way around. Sipping tea at that table all day long and doing things is the wrong order. A slightly strange metaphor but it feels right. Making extravagant dinners only for myself and indulging in a long shower and enjoying the thought of needing an umbrella tomorrow and taking my wellies for a test drive... I am a strange girl at times, I know. /Pearl

There's just a little way to go now, not long left at all until summer holidays my friends. This week is decidingly study intensive and already it feels great! The key is just avoiding distractions and keeping your nose in them books.

Today I got news of receiving a summer job at a play school and I also received a giant belated birthday card signed by all my Irish friends back home along with some essentials; barry's tea bags + polo mint etc.
This entirely made my day! On top of all this I actually went for a good old 40 minute run and have planned to look at apartments this week. Today nothing can bring me down.

I sit down at the table just like my mother does and try to open the letter with a pencil top. I read the words infront of me and try to peice together what it is they're trying to say. It seems to be something about leaving in my details and being enrolled in something or other by the government. The use of words like it's your duty and you must, intimidate me and make me wonder if there is something I forgot to do?? In an instant I feel as though I'm shrinking until all that's left is a pile of clothes on a chair and little me looking up at the table wondering what to do.

When Barry's tea doesn't soothe your throat, you know something's up.
So I have a plan to make it to my sweetheart and hibernate there until it feels better.
Running erands in the middle of the day makes me feel entirely grown up,

and checking my balance online even more so.
I discovered white cherry blossoms today, a whole bunch of them.

All for myself.

I imagined I was walking beneath clouds and treading on thin air.. Maybe not so grown up?

Falling asleep lying on my belly in the bed with my head flat out on my history book. I wake up to find lines on my face and the apartment empty. The air is hot and stale so I open the window to let the breeze in and pick up a good book. I pour a bath and watch my lemon bathball dissolve, holding it just above water level so as to save half for next time. Flicking through my history book and shaving my legs I hear the others come home. Though the curtains are closed I can see the light through the transparent mint green outside and my mind wanders to day further ahead than this one. /Pearl

Loving the sunshine, loving the light, loving just every little thing about spring. Eating lollies between classes, feeling focused and finally enjoying the aspects of the freedom of a free summer. One small detail is bothering me though, encircling my heart and gripping it like an iron vice when I think about it. My sunshine has left me alone.