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elviellaI did not actually manage to do all the things in my "do before flight" list, as you can probably tell, but it doesn't matter because I had to leave anyway, and am now in RHODES. Rhodes is amazing, AA+, I recommend you to visit and if you ever do, let me know so I can tell you all the good things about it.
One of my admittedly hilarious favourite things about vacationing in Rhodes is that I get to wake up early. This is strange and also the opposite of both what people usually do during vacations and what I do the rest of the year, but my grandpa is an early riser and very stubborn about other people getting up early too (once when I was eight he put opera on really loudly. It was almost eight in the morning). But I actually enjoy being up early, so I begrudgingly get myself up in the morning. The good thing is that I CAN ACTUALLY GET UP if my grandpa wakes me, because alarms will do nothing for me, and that I feel very nice when I'm up early and have the whole day in front of me. I also manage to DO A LOT OF THINGS THIS WAY, so I tend to write, draw, and read more. So, awesome.
Also hilarious is my reading list for the following three weeks, because the books I packed with me are:
-Albert Camus' The Stranger
-Diana Wynne Jones' Deep Secret
-Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Cezanne's Doubt and The eye and the spirit
-Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy
-Kate Elliott's Cold Magic
So you either get YA FANTASY or PHILOSOPHY AND AESTHETICS, which are both things I'm into, but also in quite different sides of an imaginary book spectrum. I don't know, it just looked funny to me when I opened my suitcase.
Things I plan to do here other than meeting friends, swimming, and reading:
-Go to the aquarium and draw the fish!
-Visit the medieval castle and palace for the first time since I was like, nine, show off (to myself probably) about newly acquired history of architecture knowledge :DDD
-Write lots of fic?? WRITE LOTS OF FIC!!
One of my admittedly hilarious favourite things about vacationing in Rhodes is that I get to wake up early. This is strange and also the opposite of both what people usually do during vacations and what I do the rest of the year, but my grandpa is an early riser and very stubborn about other people getting up early too (once when I was eight he put opera on really loudly. It was almost eight in the morning). But I actually enjoy being up early, so I begrudgingly get myself up in the morning. The good thing is that I CAN ACTUALLY GET UP if my grandpa wakes me, because alarms will do nothing for me, and that I feel very nice when I'm up early and have the whole day in front of me. I also manage to DO A LOT OF THINGS THIS WAY, so I tend to write, draw, and read more. So, awesome.
Also hilarious is my reading list for the following three weeks, because the books I packed with me are:
-Albert Camus' The Stranger
-Diana Wynne Jones' Deep Secret
-Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Cezanne's Doubt and The eye and the spirit
-Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy
-Kate Elliott's Cold Magic
So you either get YA FANTASY or PHILOSOPHY AND AESTHETICS, which are both things I'm into, but also in quite different sides of an imaginary book spectrum. I don't know, it just looked funny to me when I opened my suitcase.
Things I plan to do here other than meeting friends, swimming, and reading:
-Go to the aquarium and draw the fish!
-Visit the medieval castle and palace for the first time since I was like, nine, show off (to myself probably) about newly acquired history of architecture knowledge :DDD
-Write lots of fic?? WRITE LOTS OF FIC!!
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Date: 2013-07-09 04:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-09 08:02 am (UTC)Hahahah actually I have read the first ~150 pages of Cold Magic but it hasn't really gripped me yet. The setting looks interesting and I like the main character but the worldbuilding is also quite complicating and it is difficult for me to get into it. Maybe it has to do with the fact that it was my transportation book (that one book I mostly read in the bus to uni basically) so I wasn't very concentrated while reading. I will update you with more info when I finish! :DDD