Now, seriously. I have been a bit busy, after the Christmas break I had my exams (5 of them), then I visited Czech, worked on my thesis a bit, then I had to go to Czech again, then I worked on my thesis a bit more and here I am now: happy about my maths, less into writing things down but it is the last step in my masters' that I need to complete. Well, I still have one more exam to do and possibly I will choose to finish my Dutch course, but that is now somewhere at the back of my mind.
The weather in Leiden has improved magically, it's sunny so often, warm and not-windy, almost as if I were in California already. Oh, that's the big news, I've just accepted a place at Berkeley, so starting from August I will be hanging around mostly in the Bay area. For the summers I will likely be coming back to Holland, as long as I have such wonderful reasons to come back, but I will also spend some time back home. Maybe I will even do some math-related travelling, who knows?
So now that I am mostly bound to my desk and typing things down in our dark Algant office, not seeing all the amazing weather outside, I decided to take up running again. I am spending an hour or two on the track almost every day, provided the weather is nice, partly sunbathing, partly running around, almost like the good old times. If everything goes smoothly, my mother will even bring my old spikes to me and I want to run my first race in two months, here in Leiden. Probably not hurdles: though my technique was basically unaffected by those two long years of chilling on various couches all around the world, running-wise it's still a misery.
So that's it. Almost. There are tulips everywhere, seagulls all around the department make me feel like it is some sort of a beach resort, occasional trips to the beach and naive attempts at wading through the water remind me that it is still the Netherlands, I am grateful to the people around me for putting up with me and making this such a great time here. Hopefully writing will go well, training will still be fun, my Dutch will improve enough so that I won't panic anymore and life will in general be good.
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| Kijk! And this is just the beginning of the season :) |
