Let's see the world

This blog is about the beauty of the world and trying to see it with a open mind;

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A White stage. This picture represents interior design for me. 

Isn’t it the dream of every designer to have a black canvas and a endless budget. Or maybe not is that just the worst nightmare, to have no direction, no guide line. I don’t know but I want to have a white stage to fill up with all my ideas that are still in my head, wondering, floating around. A white stage for all the house i wanna build and all rooms i need to fill up. Its frustrating sometimes to not be able to communicate your hopes and dreams. I feel like my ideas are so good in my head and if i have to decorate a house i can see myself walking trough it but to get that across is very hard for me. I know people don’t think so highly of me. And they don't except extraordinary things of me. Because I never prove myself. But i know when I ever get the means to explain myself i will surprise people. I am just waiting patiently. 

Not a lot of people know who I am. How my white stage is filled up. They don't know I write stories, poetry or scripts. That more than anything I like to act and I am not that bad at it. That I love to take the perfect picture and it makes me so happy when I do. They don’t know who I am, Because I am just recently figuring it out for myself. I am happy with myself, I just hope that the storm in my head will lay down and I can finally express myself and who I really am. 

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A house is much more than just a mere shelter, it should lift us emotionally and spiritually

John Saladino

i think this is a good quote for explaining what interior design is to me. I can’t just put a sticker on it. On one style, one way of doing it or one kind of furniture. when you are designing something I think its important to think of the people you are doing it for. The have to live in it. Be apart of if. So just putting furniture in it is not enough. It has to be  a extension of them self. You know your house if you can walk around it with your eyes closed and still find what you are looking for. 

Interior design for me is, more than anything else, a feeling. You have to feel your design. If you feel it, you can understand it. If you understand it you can do what you need to do. And i wanna feel one with my designs so i can give them the best that I can. But at this point in my life I didn’t have that feeling yet. I still can’t get across my feeling and way of thinking. I need something grand to explain what is going on in my head.  

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Interior design to me is also thinking outside the box. Taking something ordinary and make it unordinary. And this is what the designer Tokujin Yoshioka does with memory moroso. he took aluminium foil and made a chair out of it. Something that is not normally done with this material. I like the fact that he makes it with hand dan that every chair is different made to the needs of the people. There are many examples of  this. And everyone can do it. 

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So this is Langley, I’ve been here two years in a row for a language camp. But not just a camp where we learnd english. It was a theatercamp. the first year we had ten days to learn Alice in Wonderland. And everything was completely in English. It was amazing. We did not jsut rehearsed for the play but also played games and saw Cambrigde and the sea side. 

We were devided in Four groups each of us had a different part to fill. Dancers, Musicians and two drama groups We had a amazing staff ANd our directors couldn’t be more perfect. It wasn’t just the story of Alice it was of Alice it was how we saw it. The year after we did pinokkio and we it was so much fun to do these. I’ve learned a lot of things in those few days not only about English but also about making a play. I’ve learned the importance of everyone being on the right spot, the decor and the props you use. The music group wrote all the music used in the play themself. And all those little parts came together and made one wonderful play.  

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I am studying to become a Interior Designer and this is my platform to show you my style. Enjoy

So I’ve been keeping this from you. Because it’s personal and I afraid of what you will think of my style. It is not completed yet, because i’s a work in progress. 

It’s sometime confusing to know who you are and what you’re style is. When I was in Highschool i was sometimes laughed at because I was wearing things that were different from the norm. But I excepted it and I became a stronger woman out of it. The friends I have from that time are friends that respect me for the way I am. I am a special girl like most of the people say that I meet. But I love not fitting in a box. 

We had a discussion lately with my friends in my class. Talking about different styles we have. All of them already had a specific style. Minimalist, Normandic, Organic, Lots of Browns. And when I asked what was my style, they didn’t have a answer ready, they didn’t really know, only that I like to use colour. And I thought, well oke so maybe its time to figure it ou. So I put all the pictures of things I’ve been collecting over different months and put them in a blog. 

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Steak met bitterballen - Eva Mouton

The wall in the beginning of the exibitionand it is marked and filled with stereotyps and differences between belgium and Holland. It has a lot of funny stuff in it. Ad it was very amusing to read all thos things.

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In the old part of the museum the rooms were devided accordng to materials. on the floor you found which materials the furniture was made out. Like paper, plastics, coals,;;;;It was very intresting to see the different set ups, it was almostlike coming in a different world every time. I liked the old part of the museum as well. the contrast with the new part.

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Maarten Van Severen

Beside the DesignDerby there was this exibition of Maarten Van Severen. it was very intresting to see this. IT was at the top and it was one open, light room. I like it because you could see his process in making furniture. I like the grouping of the objects. i just liked it. 

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So we went to the Design museum in Ghent. We went there for the Belgium-Holland DerbyBut there were some other exibitions going on as well. For the childeren there were little work station but also these guys. And so the inner child in me awakened and i went looking for them as well. There will probably be more but well its been a long time since i went looking for Lego. For me it made the exibition a little more enthousiastic. I could alseo see a light change in my friends because we were all happy when we found one. 

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Where the Hell is Matt? 

I refound these video’s when i was making one of my lessons. And I instandly remembered why I like them so much. It is so funny to see him dancing like a idiot all over the world. The amazing thing is that the longer he is doing this the more people want to dance with him. so there is this website http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/videos where he gives more info about his goal and reasons for doing this. I just think its a fun way to discover the world and it is so much fun to watch and recognize citys you’ve seen or been trough. 

the fun way of traveling.  

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This summer i went to Berlin but not to citytrip i went on a camp orginised by EFIL. The vss (volunteer sumer summit) its a camp for all the volunteers of AFS from all over Europe and I can tell you it was wonderful, hot but wunderbar. It the picture above you cna see all of us together. I made some amazing new friends and I got to know a few old ones better. we couldn’t have asked for better weather. more than 3Odegrees every day. Thank god for the lake and the trees with shadow. We had different workshops. amazing communty projects to choose from and crazy people to share it with. 

I thank AFS for all the amazing things that happend in my live since I went on a exchange. It made my life so much more colourful and rich. I hope we meet again in Venice this summer

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we travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us

Anonymous

I really like a good quote. It makes me feel not alone. Other people feel the same, share my struggles, sadness or happines. 

I put this quote here because of the stories I’ve been hearing lately. More and more people travel or go on exchanges and we have to do this while we can because its a amazing once in a life time experience. Do it know before life slips away trough your fingers. Do it so you have stories to tell.

I changed my view on traveling the last few years. I don’t need to travel anymore to feel happy about my life. To feel that my life was worth something. to have amazing stories. I dont need to see places but people. Friends and strangers those are the things that make my travels amazing. I won’t say that i don’t like to go to discover new places but it not needed. I like to visit people and let them tell them about the city, village, nature. And it is refreshing for myself to know that.There are no expectations anymore to make the best of it. Going out with the locals and letting the vibe of the city bring you around. For me you need money to travel but only to get there. You wont have a better trip if you go to the most expencive hotel or best restaurants. to have the most expencive guide show you around. No, its about you finding your way in this world. 

I don’t ike to stay at home, and there is a little light in me needing to travel. To discover the world and understand other cultures. Understand why my friend do and think like the do and understnad there way of living. Knowing which stereotyps are wrong and which are true. 

For me trave is to discover not to escape. 

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I like those articles showing different kind of tiny houses. Because it shows how little we need to function in a home. Ofcours you have to keep it clean but there is not that much place to leave it dirty. Tey are perfect as a holiday home. Placing them on amazing locations with some views. You can place them almost everywhere. That is also why I like them. Some of them are sucked up by there surroundings. 

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25 Unbelievable Travel Destinations You Never Knew Existed

The best places for tourists to visit that most people never knew existed, from Wisconsin to Tanzania.

There are some tourist attractions that can't be missed: The Vatican in Rome, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Westminster Abbey in London.

These are the kinds of places friends and family expect travelers to go.

But there are plenty of places to see that are under the radar; often known only by locals.

Inspired by this Quora list asking about the best travel destinations most people never knew existed, we put together our own list of the 25 hidden gems around the world that are worth the trek.

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Where is your home?

I think that all the exchange students out here can relate. My home is everywhere I find and meet my friends. My residence is at my parents home but feel at home in city I study? But peace I find with my boyfriend in Hungary. my second home, maybe. My friends are spread all over the world what makes travel important. Open invitations to go everywhere. And i wanna see all those places. But still I also need peace and think about what I did or where I stand in life. What I want or need. So I like this talk because I can relate to it. I feel its important for people to say that its oke to lock yourself up. stay inside and find peace. Traveling is amazing and you should do it. Just also find time for yourself. 

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Rain makes everything better.

Rainy Mood + Ain’t no sunshine

I got this website from a friend when i was feeling a little bit down. And i still listen to it from time to time. I always like to hear the rain and to smell the world after it has rain. I can just sit in the dark with a cup of hot chocolate. At the fire and listen the weater fighting. Storm passing by seeing the lighting hit. 

I am that person that hates warm weather. I die in summer even here where it barely 25degrees. Love the cold. Love the snow and I enjoy a cold or wet day. I need it from time to time. 

Now its getting really nice because you can just listne to the sound of rain or you can combine it with your favorite song. i Combined it with ain’t no sunshine because it was the first combo i ever heard and i loved it but you can combined it with so much more. 

What is your favorite combo? Let me know!!!!

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Az ember tragédiája-  Imre Madách

The Tragedy of Man was first published in 1861. The play is considered to be one of the major works of Hungarian literature and is one of the most often staged Hungarian plays today. Many lines have become common quotations in Hungary. 

 This is a story about Adam and Eve. It is not only told by there time spend in the Garden of Eden but its a story troughout history. 

I put this up here because its my only play i saw in Hungary, wans’t understanding most of it so I had to look and take in the surrounding. And it was quite impressive. What started out as a emptyblack stage with just Adam and Eve changed as much as the period the where in did. from sand falling out of the sky to piece of the stage moving up or down. water. Big decor pieces and even the chandelier moving down .Everything changed and this made it more intresting for me. 

It has beeen played a thousand imes in hungary and if you have the change you should go and watch it. To get to know the language and to se this amazing story about Adam and Eve.