back to the future

Dear readers, let me tell you a story!

Once upon a time (a few months ago anyways), there was a girl from Luxembourg studying in the United States. She loved reading and writing and so she decided to create a blog, to keep her family and friends informed about her life overseas. At first all seemed good, she wrote her experiences down every now and then and enjoyed talking about her international lifestyle. Slowly but surely, however, fewer posts got shared and in March she stopped working on her blog altogether. I'm sure you were or still are wondering what could have happened to trigger this? Was it sheer idleness? Too much stress because of university? No time because there was always something a little more exciting to be done? To be honest all of these reasons apply but another huge maleficent factor influenced the sad decision to stop writing: my laptop broke down.
You heard me, my internet-able device, which I trusted with all my documents and photos, bailed on me and decided to shut down for good only a week before finals. Of course I had all my drafts, final essays and homework on it and no, of course I didn't save it on another device or send it to my e-mail account. GONE! It was all gone... Not only did I have to say good bye to all my documents, furthermore my laptop did not restart again, he simply refused to work and so I was back to paper and pencil again!
As I said this wasn't  the whole reason why I stopped writing but it increased the stress I had to cope with and left little time for blogging next to studying and meeting friends. I could have used the computers in the library but first I had to re-write all my essays and I couldn't have posted anything with pictures. So I decided to concentrate on my studies and the real life in the now rather than spending my free time in the library too! I probably would have bored you with my anger about technology if I would have taken the time to post anyways, so you didn't miss out! And no worries I swore to myself to finish this blog once I'd have more time on my hands and access to a computer again. So here I am back home and ready to reflect on the past weeks in the States, from finals to roadtrips, I'll tell you all the exciting details within the next weeks!

so this time for real: keep coming back, I'll keep you posted! xx