As we approach some of the final hot days here in the UK, the next season is soon to come, and as I like to say, the best season of all! Today I wanted to talk about the seasons of the year, which are my favourite and why. Just a more of a general relaxed post before I go into stressed mode for the next semester of university. Also, something calm to discuss as all of our lives are, I am assuming, very hectic still due to the pandemic.

Obviously, everyone has their own favourite season and their reasonings why but we all know that when fall hits, its a really big thing. It’s something people look forward too as we get the nice cosy nights, hot drinks and chilly walks, its something that shows change and a new chapter for some. And for some its rain, awful weather and they hate it altogether. But for me, fall has a special place in my heart for many reasons.

Firstly, it’s not hot. I HATE WHEN ITS HOT!, especially in the UK. Heat in the UK is just generally uncomfortable, it’s not like an enjoyable heat like you get when you go on holiday to Spain or Greece, its more like “omg its so hot I can’t breath” rather than “omg it’s so hot I’m going to get a tan and drink cocktails by the pool” kind of thing. Also, I hate summer clothes in comparison to fall clothes, which is an odd thing to say for someone my age who the stereotype is that girls love summer and showing off their bodies and having a good time. No. I hate wearing shorts because they always roll up, dresses give me thigh burn and I don’t feel like sweating buckets and it being able to show on my thin t-shirt. So I don’t like the clothes and I don’t like the heat, I also hate the people, the typical summer people. Somehow people seem to get bird brain when summer hits for some reason, I don’t know if this is just here or in other countries too. It just seems like because there is an extra few degrees outside that people can drive like idiots, catcall and ignore the law generally. This angers me because its such a stupid reasoning and leads to just so many accidents and unnecessary events its silly. Okay, I think I am done ranting about summer now.

Now on to lovely fall. I am fully in my element when the middle of September hits, I like skinny jeans, oversized jumpers, scarfs and a hot drink. That is my ideal going-out outfit (which I can’t wear during summer, another reason I hate it) and its just something I feel so much more comfortable in. Also, all the best things happen during fall! We get fireworks night, Halloween (which I am a huge fan of) and then when we hit winter we get Christmas, like why would you not like fall? I am just generally a big fan of fall walks and taking photos during fall too, I feel everything just looks so much more beautiful and calm, like a time where you can just relax. Also, I love staying in (again odd for my age) and during fall this is just so much better; rain outside the window, candles lit, in bed wrapped in a blanket watching Nightmare Before Christmas for the 10000000 time with my boyfriend, what’s not to love? Below are some photos I took a few days ago when we went on our first fall walk, just look how amazing it is!

Now when we get to winter, I love winter too! mainly because I am a winter baby but also because I like Christmas and again I like it when it’s cold outside for all the reasons above too. I love snow, although very rarely do we get it in the UK, I love seeing it glisten and how happy everyone gets when they see it, it’s almost magical, whereas there is nothing magical about heat, its just annoying. I also like the Christmas fair, whether it is the one in Bournemouth or Birmingham, I love going and just having this experience once a year, just a time of enjoyment and a nice way to start wrapping up the year, which can’t come soon enough this year as gosh it been awful! The Christmas market is a small tradition I have with my best friend, that we go, eat a Christmas dinner and Wetherspoons (English pub) and ice skate, so again another event to look forward to during the cold season. Christmas is not my favourite, very oversold to me, but I like to enjoy it if I can, I like a little peaceful time with family and some good food, so gifts and obviously, dressing up my dogs.

Now I know I have been a bit out fo order this post, but now we can talk about spring. I see it as an okay season, I mean nothing special really happens in spring for me, but I also enjoy it as it is still a coolish season weather-wise. I like seeing all the trees and plants start to bloom again, it is enjoyable and still a nice season to go out and do something dressed up warm, but then the weird weather starts of half cold and half hot and then summer comes so its not my favourite!

I hope you have enjoyed this little odd post, again something calmer for the brain and gets you thinking, what is your favourite season? and why? everyone is different and has different preferences which is okay, I just really hate summer 🙂 maybe you can change my mind! Until next time,

Love, Kasia x

Hi guys,

A more exciting month in comparison to July, a lot more travelling, seeing people and obviously a lot more hand sanitizer than I am used to. If you have kept up with the last sum up and my Instagram page for the month of August, you will know that I was in Poland visiting family and just going for a general holiday, because you know, every other country is practically off-limits, so there is no safer place than with family.

For the first 2 weeks of August, I was at home alone as the way of travel in my home this summer turned out oddly. My parents first went to Poland, then they came back on the 14th, and then I flew out on the 15th and have just come back on the 12th of September. So nearly 6 weeks of not seeing them, I am glad to be back home.

Obviously, as you have probably guessed, I had to fly to get to Poland, which is a big issue for me as I am terrified of flying, so the 2 weeks while I was alone were absolute torture to say the least. I don’t think I have ever watched so many plane videos on Youtube in my life, and by the time I had to fly, I felt ready and calm. With these feelings, I, to an extent, enjoyed the flight and landed safely, with the enjoyment of seeing friends and family in mind. I will say, I have also never seen so much military at the airport before, and even more so have them check my temperature! There were a lot of checks and the whole things took longer than usual which meant spending more time at the airport, not my favourite, but had to be done. They also made us board the lane like 45 minutes early which is odd but they must have their reasonings I suppose.

Once we got home, I knew that this holiday will be great. See, my boyfriend lives in the countryside in Poland so when we go there its just 3 houses and forest. That’s it. So I have time for thinking and to gather some peace in this crazy life. I also like seeing his family as we don’t see them often and its nice to catch up, he also has a cousin our age and a long time friend, so the 4 of us always have lots of fun every summer, it’s like a time to just be kids again (considering were all 20!)

We usually split the time half and half, so we have 2 weeks at his family’s home and then we spend 2 weeks with my grandparents, who live in Lodz, 2 hours away. While we were there we renovated my grandmother’s kitchen, which was exciting for her as this was the final room in her flat to refresh and exciting for us as this would be our first renovation together, we got to see how well we work together and what it will be like when one day we live together. When it was finished it looked amazing and we were all so pleased with it! I have added a picture below but you can find more on my Instagram. After the renovation was done, we found some time to go out and spend time with my grandparents, but not any other family members on my side really as COVID is a bit scary in Lodz at the moment so we stayed local with family. We also found some time for a sneaky date night in the city, which is always welcomed as alone time is key.

And before we knew it, it was time to go home, we made our way back to my boyfriend’s home as we were flying out from the local airport there, had one last drink with friends and family and were off on our flight the next day, although not as great as the first flight with some turbulence, I got through it and we made it home and now I’m here! Writing this post!

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And that’s August wrapped up, nothing extreme, just a causal little holiday, as much as I would want to take more this year it is mostly impossible! We have Egypt booked for December but I am not very confident that will happen either, but we will see! Also, I know this post is late as we are halfway through September now but I only came back a few days ago and needed some time to get it together and back into my old rhythm again, rhythm including new university year, scary!

Love, Kasia x

Hi guys,

I am now deep into my holiday and on my way to my grandmother’s house for the remaining 2 weeks of my holiday in Poland, its been nice being with my boyfriends family but now I want to go to my city for some shopping as where he lives, let’s just say its a few houses and forest. Over my holiday, I have been doing some writing of course, as always, and started to think about all the different skills and professions we have in the world, you know, shower thoughts. Then I started to consider how little I knew and how I lack certain skills that come at ease to others around the world. Sure I may know how to write and I am good artistically to an extent but there is so much more to learn and do than what I know. So I decided to compose a list of things that I would love to learn how to do and maybe one day finally master, and I am sharing it with you! Let me know what you think or if you have any skills or things you would love to try. The list starts below:

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1. Learn another language:

I know I already have 2 languages under my belt (Polish and English) But I see people all the time who know 3,4, even 5 languages and I really wish I knew more than my two basic ones. I love to travel the world so being able to go to a country and speak their native language would not only show effort but also be a nice surprise to natives and show respect. We often travel to different countries expecting for them to speak our language (mostly English) when we won’t even bother most of the time to learn theirs, which in some ways is a bit disrespectful but it’s just the way we travel I guess. The ones I really want to learn would be French, Italian or Spanish, but mostly Spanish, I don’t know why but I have always loved listening to it so much so I would love to learn it, I tried before but then I started university and I didn’t have any more time, typical.

2. Self-defence:

Another hobby/ skill that I abandoned and wish I had not, was karate. It was something I was forced in to as a child by my parents, I wanted to swim so for them this was the next best thing, so although I hated it at first I eventually started to enjoy it but as I got into my teen years I saw it as childish and gave up. I wasn’t amazing at it but it looked good enough to perform with maybe a few mistakes, but it was more about protection than precision. I wish I still remembered some of it or carried on as I guess in the world we live in now, it would be useful for self-defence at any moment, so it might be something I get back into when I have more time.

3. Play an instrument:

This is something I have been in and out of my whole childhood and early teen years. I tried to repress writing and art because I thought it was boring and tried to make myself a “musician”, well it didn’t work because I am awful at music, but I would love to try now that I am a bit more mature and have it as a side hobby. I tried the piano and guitar before, so I would be very willing to try these again as I loved doing it when I was a child but again I just was not very good at it, but my parents still cheered me on! My mom always wanted me to play the violin which is incredibly hard, and when played well I love the sound of, again like Spanish, maybe I should try that.

4. Learn how to dance:

I think I have mentioned this before, I hate dancing, I can’t do it, I have two left feet and I hate it. Its one of the many reasons why I also hate clubbing and going to weddings because I just can’t do it and I make a fool of myself. When I think of dancing I just want to hide forever but I know one day I will need it, ie for my own wedding. Just learning some basics would probably change my perspective on it and events that I need it for, I don’t need to be a full-on dancer, just want to know what to do if I get pulled on to the dance floor by a drunk uncle at a wedding, its not much to ask.

5. Sowing:

This is something I want to learn how to do but its not as important to me as the others. Obviously, if I rip clothing etc I know how to fix it and make it new again but I am more about sowing in terms of making my own clothing, it’s just something I see people do and I am amazed by and would love to try how to do on my own, I see it on shows like drag race all the time and I am in awe. Just something small and cool that came to mind and to show off about.

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As always, I hope you have enjoyed this post and finding out about some skills I would love to learn how to master. Although knowing how to do these things would be nice, do not discredit the abilities you already have as they have got you so far and will continue to do so. Be grateful for what you know and seek further if you wish to do so.

Love, Kasia x

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.

 

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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.

 

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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