I should probably have my own cool beginning when I write these blog entries so let's : salute with happiness!

Today I woke up feeling like I should start writing the book I'm working on once again. Then the little politician inside me said "read the news" and that I did. Then I noticed the flowers on our kitchen table, but in a way that I've never noticed them before. So, in total there are five tulips in a vase, so nothing special, but rather beautiful. But somehow, I went on with my thinking process and soon it was all Charles Darwin and Carl Sagan and why we exist type of thoughts. The tulips made me think of the circle of life. One of the tulips almost nodded the table, that one is depressed and maybe a middle aged women, I thought. Then there was one that looked smaller than the other ones, insecure and sensitive like a little child. Then another two were leaning towards each other like lovers. Then last but not least, that was one perfect looking tulip, a real boss, the head of a famous worldknown company. Then, complete silence in my head. I heard the clock ticking on the wall, I looked outside, holding on to my nerdy coffee cup. Then I noticed what time it was and gasp, I had been thinking about the meaning of life for three entire hours. And nope, not a single word in my notebook. But somehow I felt happy and free and told myself that stories exist everywhere and I cannot always think on the one I'm writing, I have my own to live up to as well.

Remember to never forget the wanderlust inside you.

- Rebecka

Hello! or should I say Bonjour?!

Last week I went on a study trip to France and i was amazing... and absolutely unforgettable! As it was a historical trip, I watched the waves go by at Omaha Beach and followed in the footsteps of my favorite impressionist, Claude Oscar Monet. But my mind when I finally visited Paris! It felt like another planet. I felt like I was completed inside and could smile, because of the little things in life. As I "window shopped" (like I always do, cause hmm my low budget) through the whole Champs-Élysées, I imagined myself as an famous author. The kind who one they came back to Paris and thought: " I once visited this city... Back then I was young and poor and had a head filled with silly, childish dream." But the truth is that I will never forget the things I saw and did when in Paris; laughing students having a picninc near the Seine, running under the Eiffel tower in the evening and of course walking back to your hotel in Saint Lazare with aching feet, in the rain, but you were incredibly happy, because you had just bought your self a huge strawberry flavoured macaron.¨

And then again no trip would be completed without a good book. I ended up buying a book from the author John Green. I must tell you that it is a little tradition of mine to buy a book written by John Green every time I travel somewhere. This happens, of course at our main airport here in Finland, Helsinki-Vantaa ,before my flight takes off. Anyway, this time I bought "Paper towns". During my summer vacation I will be reading that masterpiece.

Some say the best thing about traveling is that you can start planning your next trip once you get home. This is what happend to me. I'll be traveling to Lübeck in June and this is a quite special trip and it includes an interesting background story as well, but I will get back to it some other time.

Hope you guys will have a great week!

- Rebecka