Wondrously Wandering

Hello hello! Happy New Year! I hope the first week of 2020 has been a good one! With the arrival of a new year comes new resolutions. I am notoriously bad for keeping my list of resolutions after January passes and I was considering not making any this year. However, the more I thought about it, I decided to make just one for 2020: become more sustainable. I know the word 'sustainability' is being thrown round a lot at the minute and environmental activism is on the rise (which is amazing). I'm not the world's worst person for sustainability all things considered: I have a reusable water bottle which I bring everywhere, a travel mug which I am never without at uni, I don't use plastic straws, I bring my own bags to the supermarket... but there's so much more that I could be doing. There is increasing awareness around the effects of climate change and I'm so thankful that today's technology is enabling us to educate ourselves and to find out more ...

Hello, hello! So it's been a while... I don't really know where the past 8 months have gone but they have absolutely flown by. I can't quite believe that I am back in Bath about to start the fourth week of my final year. I feel like I moved to Madrid back in January, blinked and it was all over. So what have I been up to? Well, I finished my internship in Madrid back in August. I absolutely loved my job - the people, the fun and laid-back office atmosphere, the work itself... I got so many amazing opportunities during my 7 months there, such as an all-inclusive trip to Sevilla for 5 days where I helped out at a recruitment event for the company. However, outside of work, I struggled a bit. Something just didn't click between me and the city. I actually wrote a short blog post about it back in March which I never published but I'd said: You know how people get annoyed when they ask how you are and your answer is simply "fine." "Fine doesn...

My year abroad has involved spending 5 months studying at a university in Chile, and moving to Madrid just 4 days ago to spend a number of months doing an internship for a multinational company. Two very different things in two very different places. But they have two things in common: 1) Both are amazing opportunities to improve my Spanish and learn about the very diverse cultures of these two places and 2) Both are away from home. Before I went to university I was such a homebody, which is why I think a lot of people were surprised that I was even considering going to England to study. In school I was the shy girl that stayed within her comfort zone at all times pretty much. But when the time came to apply to university, I was ready to break away from that. I wanted to become more confident, to meet new people, to see new things and to experience a different way of life. And I knew the best way of doing so was to step far out of my comfort zone, to pack up my stuff and to leave h...

Hello hello! And Happy New Year! I know it's been the phrase of the week but I honestly can't believe we're in 2019! I feel like it was 2015, I blinked and next thing it was 2019! With new a year comes a new beginning and I do like to use the new beginning to reflect on the previous year - the good and the bad - and to make a list of my achievements, and things I want to continue in the following year, as well as things that didn't exactly go according to plan and things I want to continue working on in the following year. So I thought today I'd share some of my goals for 2019. I have split them into 3 sections - Travel, Career/University, and Personal Growth.. I feel like having this post public can maybe help me stay on track in order to achieve these goals and maybe can inspire even one person to come up with their own! Travel As I mentioned in my previous post, the 5 months I spent studying in South America have given me a serious case of wanderlu...