finally got myself to make a post about my life. Yep, life, not only art that is actually taking up 90% of my time (my soul is sold anyways).
So, yeah, it's been already one and a half month since I'm home. And home is love. At the very moment I can't imagine going back to college. I don't wanna go back. I don't miss people, once I left, I left my feelings behind as well. I even feel like I've had enough of school in my life already. No wonder, I should be graduating this year. With every single cell of mine, I hate doing things you are told to do and that is what college is mostly all about. Maybe that's why I'm so rude to people around me since I'm home, I just want to do what I want and after the whole year of doing what I was supposed to do, this feeling is just stronger. Don't get this wrong, college is amazing place and probably one of the best schools I could have ever dreamed of. It's just that I feel that I need to move on and I still have one more year of school life with all the good stuff, as well as all the gossips, unneccesary stress and people complaining.
Okay, let's move on to nicer things. My trip. Still don't realise that I'm gonna leave in less than 48 hours. I took an old sketchbook I made three (I think) years ago at camp and made it into travel diary. All mine. 3 weeks in my dream country. Too good to be true.
I haven't been working that much on fashion photography or anything, though got some contacts for projects after I come back. And just one picture I desperately wanted to share from that weird zebra photoshoot. Adorable idiot:)
Been attending a lot of family dinners and gatherings. Love them. Coming back to the family makes me feel secure. No matter where I go, what I do, I can always come back to them and they're always there for me.
having fun with brother on grandma's name day
my super adorable cousin and I
Met some inspiring people I haven't seen for ages. It was great and I got energy that will be enough for another year.
Had some random meetings. My mum and I were hiding from the sun in the shade of this amazing old linden tree in Biržai (see the first picture of this post), a town not far from my place. As we were sitting on this hill a bit further from the lake talking about life and communication problems, 3 people climbed up the same hill and we randomly started talking...about the same thing my mum and I discussed before. It was amazing. And one of the guys has been to UWC camp 11 years ago. Don't tell me it's a coincidence.
My French co-year from college came to visit Lithuania and came to my place as well. We took him to the Hill of Crosses, super cool place, though bringing mixed feelings for me - there's so much sorrow there, so much pain, as well as faith...definitely a place to visit when in Lithuania. It was weird coming back after a year, I went there with the guy from the picture above when hitch-hinking to Klaipėda, one of the best adventures I ever had in my life.
On the way back we dropped by Šiauliai, the city I used to live in. We went to my primary school. You can see Pierre, my mum and me in my very first classroom. So many memories, I literally screamed when I saw the picture of my class on the wall - I was there as well, even though I didn't graduate.
Afterwards I took Pierre on a trip to the lakes with my friends. It was really cool, even though I'm sure we mostly talked Lithuanian, poor Pierre:)
I took Agnietė (the blonder girl:) on a boat with us when we went for a shoot to paddle, since I had to carry my camera and model had to be pretty. The wind was very strong and when we had to head back against the wind, we realised that our beloved rower can't paddle at all. I had so much fun taking pictures of my dearest model paddling with this evening dress and all the make-up. The pictures from the shoot can be seen here.
I have updated my website before leaving, I have also tons of accessories I haven't shown you guys yet but I guess I'll post them all after I come back. Booked my flights to Berlin, to the camp reunion that is gonna happen in September. Super ultra mega turbo excited. For those who want to meet me at some point, I've put the list with places (hm, countries) I'm gonna be in on the right. Gotta go revise my Japanese which is the the worst state since I started learning it. Good job Ieva, right timing, when you need to survive 3 weeks speaking mostly Japanese. Well, hope you enjoyed reading all this. I might show up tomorrow with an accessory post, but if not - see you soon. In a month :P
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