... wait? What?!

There's the certain myth surrounding summer vacations, that states that they exist for us to have two months of rest. That myth is illusion that makes us think, we're gonna have great time and we'll make something for ourselves - bullshit. So here I am... in the middle of my vacation, and although I must confess It's a lot better than in the working year, and I can't say I'm resting.

Few months ago I've been trying to arrange my vacations and do things, I don't have time for in the school year... like learning Italian or write more, draw more, visit some places, learn something about scenography, theater, opera, medieval times. You know... normal things. So I cleverly sign up for an Italian course, I bought train tickets to Vienna, bought books, I wanted to read. Little I did know, however that my teachers had different plans for my free time... Why shouldn't I make my final work for advertisement? Or the grand recap of whole material from history of art, we did for those last three years? Since we have two months of free time we can easily find some time for a little bit of work, don't we? Actually I didn't even nudged that history of art recap... and about that advertisement work (which are illustrations for my story) I spent whole July for one of them, while I'm supposed to make five of them, during two months - It was very difficult one, and it almost killed me. I just hope that I'll manage to have two finished illustrations until the end of that week. I mean, I have to finish them, because I'm going to Vienna for a week, and I won't be able to work during that time, and when I'll return there'll be just two weeks to make the rest of it - oh shit. And there's also that course I mentioned earlier; Well it tires me slowly. That'll be my third week of learning and it's a little too much, since I have three hours daily, for four days weekly and I spent the rest of my day repeating and making home works. And I have exam this Friday to get some damn certificate. That would be great if I wouldn't had that departure two days later, and I wouldn't have to run across Warsaw to get money, exchange money, buy the shampoo, pasta or... sticking plasters? It exhausts me, and only time I have for learning before lessons is in the subway. Anyway... You have no idea, how strange it is to suddenly jump into English, and how many times I almost answered in wrong language to the people on the street.

Ah! There's also my story! Well, I know I promised to finish my second chapter soon after I finished the first one... well... now I promise, that I won't promise anything ever again. I have some problems about it. I'm currently working on later chapters... the ones that are connected to illustration I'm desperately trying to finish for the last month. I had to make some terrible medical research in order to make my story more believable and to don't loose or forget any detail of this research I just started to write it down. I also learned that human isn't just the blood-filled balloon, we often have the misfortune to meet in the fantasy realm and are so keen to heal it with magic - ok, I know it for a while, but not so long ago I've been writing this way - that's depressing. I sometimes keep thinking that one's not able to write a good story, unless he's at least above 40. But luckily I'm still writing, believing that one day, I'll be proud of my writing - that would be great if that would occurred before I'll actually turn 40. There are some moments I like, which is some progress (although I suck at writing romance, and I have thought that would be so easy). Anyway... I'll publish something anyway, because I want to know what people think about it; I don't know if I'll just keep the exact plot order.

Oh! And I forgot to mention! I'm gonna make the stop-motion animation of "Alice in Wonderland" with the friend of mine. We're in the stage of making concepts, and I'm excited about Cheshire Cat.
I hope you all know, that I'm very happy about my Italian course and illustrating my story - I'm just unable to share with my experiences in any other means than complaining.

Have a great vacation, everyone! And take sticking plasters with you... we all know they're essential!

This site is really great and helpful for really lots and lots of themes, so check it out.