Gap Year - Blog Posts
How much impossible it is to go to England for summer before starting university and maybe finding some old grandma that needs help with her second hand bookstore and ,,oh wow that is exactly what i know how to do” and then i would be living with her and we would run her little cute shop and i would slowly get to know her backstory, like how she ended up all alone with this shop, and i would maybe regret getting to know all of it, but please tell me, is this all really that impossible? I just want to be in England and work with books, that is all i want
(If you are a old woman with intriguing past and some kind of bookstore i beg you, give me a chance)
I crashed out and I’m currently taking a gap year, I spend my days writing and laying in my bed like a feverish victorian man. I’m going to start a different degree this september.
Oh, well. All this to say you never know where life will talke you.
Love,
Anna
I am starting uni on September 16th. I am scared, as I don't know anybody (all of my friends are going to other colleges, and studying things far more useful than literary studies and classics).
A couple months back I went on a tour of the humanities faculty building and it is absolutely beautiful, it looks like it could belong in a Donna Tartt novel, or a Shirley Jackson story: creepy, kind of unsettling, old, reminiscent of gothic architecture, beautiful.
I am excited, but also extremely confused, when I was building my timetable I realized none of my classes were on Fridays, and upon further research I found out there is no class on Fridays. I am confused about that.
Anyway, as I do every year before school starts, or, As I've done for the past three years, I will be re-reading The Secret History by Donna Tartt. I have had to buy a new copy because the one I've had since 2021 is so used the pages fall off. I am currently reading The Goldfinch, also by Donna Tartt.
Have a good academic year, lots of love,
Anna.
Taking a sabbatical has affected my relationships and mental health, who would’ve thought?