Hey! I’ve started this blog as a capsule of photos and thoughts from my gap year in Seattle. I finished my A levels in June time last year, closing the chapter of my school life and whilst I am going to university to study English in September, I decided to take a year out to experience living in the US. It was a complicated decision by my part however after months of deliberating whether to put off student life for a year, I finally decided that having the chance to live on the other side of the world in a new city was an opportunity most 18 years olds don’t get, leading to my family packing up everthing we had collected in our time living in England.
Starting a blog has been something I have wanted to do for years, however with the pressure of A levels I couldn’t find the time to put aside for starting one. It also makes me reflect on what I’ve done whilst I’ve been here, and I cant help but think how little I’ve created over the last few months, compared to how much i was writing, drawing, painting etc at school. Last summer consisted of travelling a lot, spending some time in Seattle to find a house and figure out how to get from one district/island to another, and then going to Spain for a few weeks which was well deserved after a year of STRESS. Forgetting exams ever happened was fun while it lasted, but when September came around I found it weirdly different how I wasn’t preparing myself to go back to school. It was refreshing to not spend the first few days of September in a boring routine again, but moving to the other side of the world, to a completely new city was the craziest thing I’ve done, and while it was exciting, I found it weird to not be in a type of ‘routine’ as I had been for the last 18 years. I realized how much I depended on my phone and social media in the first few weeks to make up for the lack of a routine, because I didn’t have a set time for everyday, waking up, working, eating, sleeping, it all changed, and I didn’t know what to do with myself. Whilst the weeks here have been fun planning the least expensive things to do (in the most expensive place to live ever), im hoping to create more like I used to this year. This is why im starting this blog, so I can have something to focus my time on, writing, producing and sharing pictures so I can still have a creative outlet whilst keeping an online space that I’ll hopefully look back on in years to come. Enjoy!!