For me, this year has been one of the most stressful years of my life for various reasons from work and university to personal life. However, there have been amazing moments as well, and as I want to remember the good, this is a nice way to be thankful and reflect back on all the positive moments from 2015.
1) Events!
2015 started with a big party at Crown - as we have done for years by now. Last year, we wanted to do something bigger, so we decorated all the rooms and set all the tables etc. We were also inspired by photo booths - unfortunately we didn't get one for the event, but we made frames to use for pictures as you can have in photo booths. This turned out to be the hit of the party, and it will be forever known as the frame-party.
In between, life carried on pretty basically... Or as it is for anyone in their last year in uni - all of the time you had was consumed by projects, deadlines and hand ins! So there are no very interesting pictures from that time.. Unless you would have wanted to see a bit crazy looking tired no-sleep-for-weeks me, who looks a bit scary to be honest! Or a very messy room. Or the library.
In the summer it was time for my graduation! 4 years of hard work has paid off and I graduated. During my final presentation I felt really good as I believed in my project and its vitality and success. And as it turned out, it was justified as I got a first! Thanks to that I also graduated with a first, so I now have an honours degree in Fashion and Textile Buying Management!
In May, we celebrated S's birthday in London as I planned this as a surprise for him! And also planned a surprise birthday for him in Estonia as well.
2) Work and life update
First half of 2015 was spent travelling back and forth Estonia and UK, and thankfully S travelled with me several times. We also celebrated his birthday in UK, which as very nice!
I had planned to spend my summer in London, but things didn't work out that way. Instead, I had to travel between London and Huddersfield with all my things before I decided to go back to Estonia. In here, I ended up going to Tallinn so often for different reasons, before I landed a job in Baltika. I started applying to several companies, but was offered a job as Assistant Merchandiser for Monton Ladies brand. I didn't really plan on working as a merchandiser, as I wanted to be more in buying or marketing, but as I have been there for 4 months now, I have to say, I have enjoyed this and definitely learnt a lot!
Moving to Tallinn was also a bit hasty as we had to find a flat within a week! We ended up taking one which was really low priced and literally 3 min walk to Baltika. But unfortunately there were loads of hidden problems with the flat so we ended up moving out after 2 months. And had to find another in about a week again! But luckyly we now have a good flat, apart from the fact that it is far from Baltika and I am really not that into the cold... But well, not a real life problem so we will deal with that, haha!
3) Changes
Through the summer I got more and more interested about veganism. As I had been a vegetarian for a year, I decided to try to be a vegan. This has been a big change for me and I haven't said that this will be for forever, but for as long as I feel good and can live my life the way I feel happy. Which is what I feel now. Writing this, maybe this topic needs a post of its own? But anyway, here is a collage of some delicious vegan food photos from this year. And also, I have a plan to start posting one vegan recipe each week! So we will see how that goes. :)
Besides veganism, all the issues this year have thought me so much about myself, what I value and the life I want to live. I had so many plans - I like to have a sort of guideline of what I'm doing or what I want to accomplish. Even if it doesn't end up happening, I want to have a destination or something to work towards. However, most plans in 2015 kept changing, mostly due to other people, so I had no control over the situations. At first it was very scary and I was really stressed, but eventually I learnt that it is up to me to decide what I want to feel. And that it's like a plot twist - something doesn't go as planned? Okay, whats the next step? What happes now? I learnt to be more open to new things and going with the flow with less stress.
I have also learnt not to try to prove myself to everyone. Try to prove I am as cool, as pretty, as smart or whatever. I realised that there is no point in proving myself to people who don't want to see me as I am. There are people who know who I am and people who choose not to and that is fine too. What other's think of me is none of my business and it's not up to me to stress over how to please other people or how to be more liked.
Here's to the end of 2015 and really looking forward to this year being even better!
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