So this summer is strange.
I've just finished my course, and it's the first time in a while that I haven't gone away somewhere exciting to work for the whole summer (summer of 2016 was Japan/Spain/Germany, summer of 2015 was Bosnia/Serbia/Croatia).
I have also just had a break up, just moved back to Edinburgh (with my parents), just finished studying (for now anyway), and just started a new job.
Lots of change.
So I am trying to keep myself busy, and build up a social group again, as well as plan a few things that I have been wanting to do for a while (like learn to make pottery, or start going swimming again).
Of course the weather has mostly been pretty rubbish (it is Scotland after-all), and as a self-proclaimed sun-worshipper, this has been rather tricky.
I have been back in Edinburgh for almost 2 months (it will be 2 months on the 9th of August).
Here is my plan for the next while, and if you have any suggestions please let me know.
As a true Edinburger born and bred, I was keen on writing a Guide to the Edinburgh Festival for tourists heading this way over the next weeks, so I will try to publish this over the next few days.
Mostly I have been doing job applications, organising my room (strangely therapeutic), and working part-time. I have also watched enough bad TV and YouTube videos to last a life-time.
I will update this schedule as my plans inevitably change and evolve, but the main things I am looking forward to are London next week, all the festival events I have booked during August, and Helsinki in early September.
(If any of you are Finnish or have been to Helsinki, I would love to get any tips for places to go etc!)
June
Herb Garden ☑
Dance Class ☑
Swim ☑
St Boswells Bookshop ☑
July
Take One Action Job ☑
Graduation from Royal Holloway University of London - 14th ☑
Dinner in Windsor - 14th ☑
Work dinner - 25th ☑
Cat cafe (Maison De Moggy, Edinburgh) - 27th ☑
Lighthouse Radical Bookshop, Edinburgh - 29th ☑
New phone & laptop ☑
August
Take One Action Job ☑
Train to London - 2nd ☑
Pre- birthday London drinks - 3rd ☑
Return to Edinburgh - 4th ☑
Birthday - 5th ☑
Lunch & drinks with friends visiting Edinburgh - 6th
BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals: In Tune - 7th ☑
Fish Restaurant, Glasgow - 10th ☑
Mary Contini & Pru Irvine @ Edinburgh Fringe - 11th ☑
Edinburgh Book Festival - Rutger Bregman - 12th ☑
Ottolenghi cooking day - 13th ☑
Cuckoos Bakery Edinburgh - 15th ☑
In Transit at the Edinburgh Fringe - 15th ☑
Edinburgh Book Festival - BBC Radio 4 World Book Club - 15th ☑
Edinburgh Book Festival - BBC Radio 4 Front Row - 17th ☑
Work
Edinburgh Book Festival - Zadie Smith - 19th ☑
Lucas of Musselburgh brunch & walk - 20th ☑
Lemon cake baking - 23rd ☑
Dinner in town? - 24th
Edinburgh Book Festival - Evan Davis - 24th ☑
Edinburgh Book Festival - David Bellos - 26th ☑
Catch up with old school friends - 26th ☑
September
Forest School Training? (Scotland)?
Leeds - 8th/9th ☑
Skye 15th-17th ☑
Keen to go to Sketch London, Tonight Josephine, The Breakfast Club, random bookshops & other nice bars / places.
Pottery making workshop?
Sauna & Swim?
NCTJ Diploma in Journalism Distance Learning
Art classes
Dance classes
Language classes
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