What have I done?That’s a thought that I have a lot lately. Why the fuck did I apply for an internship abroad? The weeks are going so fast that I can hardly keep track of everything. It’s a mess sometimes combining school assignments with holidays and other stuff that needs to be arranged before I move to Berlin.But the more time I spend home, the more I figure that it’s going to be a...

I have discovered a new hobby recently. I’ve always liked reality TV but this is some next level time killing. I’ve found out that reading the comments on Facebook posts are more entertaining than I thought. But I don’t read everything of course. I actually only read the comment section of our Belgian newspapers like De Morgen or De Standaard, but my absolute favourite comment section is the...

Once I tried to explain Sinterklaas to a foreigner and that wasn’t easy.So tomorrow, every year on the 6th of December, it is Sinterklaas. And if you are not from the Netherlands or from Belgium you probably won’t understand.Sinterklaas is an old man with a white beard and a red and white coat. And no, it isn’t Santa Claus, although Sinterklaas sounds basically the same.How could this be...

I had a hard time keeping all appointments out of my agenda last weekend and I knew I was going to regret it the next Monday, but it was worth it anyway.The plans for the weekend were going to the yearly 6 Uren van Kortrijk Rally. It practically takes place in my back yard, so the whole thing is a kind of ‘embrace it or hate it’- event. But my family is full of car lovers, so we rather embrace...

Last weekend I was in Ireland with a friend. I really like that country actually. It’s kind of peaceful and rainy and it reminds me of Belgium in a sad way.We were mainly visiting Dublin and my friend told me that she would like to live there. Actually, she wants to live anywhere that as long as it isn’t Belgium and that is what a lot of my other friends are saying as well. They say how bad it...

I want to write about my writer’s block that is already going on for a year or two now.Only a few years ago, I used to write a song every day and even when I was in elementary school I wrote my own little stories on my grandma’s old typewriter. But ever since I’m out of high school my inspiration suddenly disappeared. It’s like the stuff that I go through isn't that important to write it...

I love the fall. I like the colours in the forest I live next to, I love making chocolate milk in the afternoon and I adore Sunday walks through the fields.But ever since the beginning of the fall I found a few articles about basic white girls on Buzzfeed and how much they love this colourful season and now I’m not so sure about my love for the fall anymore. Most of all because I don’t...

Our assignment for this week is to write about sexism in music videos from artists like Robin Thicke, Robert Palmer and even Lilly Allen.We all know the “Blurred Lines”- story about women being objectified and then eventually Emily Ratajkowski being declared woman of the year or the girls dancing in 50 Cent videos (does 50 Cent still exist actually?).But in my opinion the forgotten part of...

I love weekends and especially Saturdays. That’s because I go shopping all day long on Saturdays. Most people think it is a crazy thing to go shopping every weekend, but it has become a kind of a tradition at home. It does not mean that if I go wander through stores that I’ll certainly buy something. I love looking around to see the new fashion trends on mannequins in the windows or just go...

If I told you that all the pressure around me makes me sick, I’ll mean it literally.When the stress rises, my blood pressure does too. And it actually makes me feel bad. The drugs work, that’s not the problem, but they only work for 8 hours a day and we all know that pressure doesn’t stop at 4 PM.We feel pressure to do well at school (well, at least some of us), to graduate, to make friends,...

For my second blog of the year, I am going to summarise this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApaGQGrGjr8) about pop music holding me hostage or not. It’s funny we have to write about this subject because I wrote my paper for our Music History class about this subject. Although my paper focussed more on Pharrell Williams and why he basically writes the same song over and over again and why...

Instead of writing about an incredibly interesting subject for my first blog of the year, I am asked to give my opinion on the following paragraphs about the famous Amen Break.If you never heard of the Amen Break before, I recommend you to click on the following link: bit.ly/1oawfGI.The first paragraph:To trace the history of the Amen break is to trace the history of a brief period of time when it...

A few years ago, I got a little present for my birthday. Since my friends and family know that ‘I’m doing something with music’, they always give me music related presents.So, I got a book called Crap Lyrics written by Johnny Sharp and I am delighted to discuss a small selection of my favourite crap lyrics.First of all, the name of the first chapter is ‘Serious as Cancer’. Snap is right,...

I am so happy the weather is getting better in Belgium. So I noticed a small change in my everyday lifestyle. When the weather changes, I seem to change along. I recently discovered there are two versions of myself. A Summer version and a Winter version.The Winter version of me is always dressed in black and is the definition of the Winter blues. I’m always grumpy and just don’t have any...

A few weeks ago, I went to Dublin for the second time. I’ve been there before, just a few years ago when it was still illegal for me to enter clubs and to drink beer.So, since my friends and I were ‘mature’ according to the Irish law, we decided to go around Temple Bar on a Saturday night to drink some beers. We were in Ireland to visit a few friends, so we already had met some stereotypical...

When the sun came out for the first time this year, I felt pretty happy. I love the fact that I can walk around in just a blouse while I dream about being on a deserted beach somewhere in the world … Yes, summer, that’s really my thing.But together with those wonderful thoughts, there’s still one dark cloud on my mind.Tourists. They are coming.I was taking the train back to Hasselt the first...

Earlier this week I was sort of watching TV. It was an unproductive day where I just sat around doing nothing.As I changed the channels I found one of those series called ‘Revolution’. It’s about how the world would function without electricity. Well, not the world, just America, because in every movie or TV series there’s never any trouble in Europe.But that one episode that I saw made me...

Sometimes it can be really relaxing to go back home after a very hard week. Those weekends are my stay-in weekends where I don’t need any social contact because I’m fully partied-out. But sometimes I force myself to go out.So last weekend I went shopping with my mom and as we were strolling around, I kept seeing people that I remembered from being in high school together.Normally I’m not...

It’s that time of the year again. All I see are Christmas trees, shiny lights and fancy champagne bottles. This Christmas period should be something that everybody enjoys, but I just can’t seem to understand all the fuzz about it.For me, Christmas is a day like the other 364. Except for the fact that my mom actually cooks dinner when it’s Christmas and doesn’t put something in the...

Yesterday I woke up and I was immediately in a very bad mood.It started out with my snooze-obsession. I always set my clock fifteen minutes earlier than it should be, so I have some extra wake-up time to get used to sunlight. Bad habit, I know. So when I snoozed, I accidentally hit “stop” and I overslept. When I finally woke up, I jumped out of bed to put the lights on. Then I was able to do...