Hi everyone,
Halfway through this month, I was thinking about what I can do to make my blog stand out a little more, have something unique for people to read every month and make it more attractive to more readers. So I came up with the idea of doing a monthly sum up! Every month, on the last day of the month, I will do a sum up of what I did during the month that may be of interest to you. Whether that is little road trips, life events or just little updates on previously talked about topics that may have developed during the month. These posts will be mainly for readers who are interested in my personal life and would just like to know more about me and what I get up to. I will discuss what major things happened in my life during that month and anything I have taken from it.
I just think it will be a nice idea as this blog is about my experiences and discussing lifestyle and development, so if your interested please let me know. I will see how this goes over the coming months, some months may be more interesting than others but that’s the beauty of it I guess. Stick around as below is the first monthly sum up; July.
July, July, very boring July. This is the word I can describe most of the months in 2020 with as the pandemic has left me without the university experience, no job, quarantine, isolation and sitting at home. The only benefit I have really seen is that I am home with my family and I get to see my boyfriend more, and that’s it really.
This month overall has had its lows and highs, but I will go over the lows first to get them over with. Due to the pandemic, I have become redundant, like many during this time in the working sector, but to me, this does not change much as I feel more for the people who have lost full-time jobs and rely on them for their way of life. Them compared to me have much larger issues so I am lucky this has not happened to me further in life. I also have lost my year-long placement as I have discussed before. I enjoyed my job and I was very much looking forward to starting my placement as this would be the start of my career in marketing, but why worry when I cannot help it? I was obviously upset over the two for a while but I imagine that I could be in a worse situation, and I am getting over it. I still feel this will affect me the in the future, as now there are not many opportunities in companies to take on interns, and I most likely will be going into the full time working world with not much experience, but I will cross the bridge when I get there, I choose to stay optimistic.
Another not so great thing to come my way in the month of July would be finding out that the first semester of my final year will be online. I am mad but understanding about this for many reasons, one of them would be the £9k I pay every year for my education, for half of it to be online, and the second would be that I will be missing out on the university experience. I miss my friends, living alone and even eating the student diet! I signed up for it and now I am not receiving which makes me mad, but then I think that it may be for the best obviously due to the health risk of being in a lecture room of 150 people next to one another. I just remain hopeful that the second semester can be back to normal, somewhat, so for the sanity fo students around the world and our money, please wear your damn mask. This has caused me many stresses over the month of July by cancelling accommodation and reworking my student finance, the university keep changing their mind but I guess I have to take matters into my own hands and again remain optimistic.
Some positives now, my boyfriend’s sister turned 18 and we had a small gathering for her. It was something enjoyable to do and the first time I have dressed up in a dress since last year! it was nice to see people and have a few hours to pretend everything was normal in the world. It’s crazy to me in a way, when I and Dawid first started dating, she was 12, turning 13. Wow, so much time and commitment, also so much decrease in my patience 😉 Anyway, I wish her all the best and I hope to see her grow for many more years.
During July I tried to get out of the rut of being in the house all the time, the birthday party included. Me and my parents did some UK travelling as some of you may have seen on my Instagram page, we visited a lavender field and some other locations. I want to do more of this, just seeing some small gems in the UK if can’t really travel outside the country, just keeps the mind engaged I feel.
Other small little bits to finish off, I got a new laptop, so no more 2 laptops, I needed a new one for my university work and my 2013 laptop was barley running my sims game and lecture notes, so it was time. Now I am heading off the Bournemouth with my boyfriends family just for a small rest, and packing up last bits from my flat, finally saying goodbye until hopefully semester 2 in 2021. Also going to see my best friend for the first time since March and having a little late celebration for her birthday, again I couldn’t be there for her birthday because of CO-VID19, so another bummer.
I hope you have enjoyed the July Sum Up, let me know if you want to see another one next month. I also post daily on my Instagram: @soeffortlessblog so if you want to keep updated with me daily and see what I am up to on the go, please give it a follow at the link.
Love, Kasia x
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