Things happening

Man, my head is about to explode. Too much happening around me. My work has changed for the better, but involves more work, study is a humongous energy eater and a new relationship make for a lot of changes.
Each of these three would make me self reflect. Now I’ve got them all at the same time. The last few weeks I noticed a nettled reaction on my side to things I wouldn’t have bothered about before.

I use visualisations to clarify my thoughts. So I’m seeing a pond with water in it. Now work throws in a stone. The stone causes ripples on the surface of the water. Now study adds a stone and relationship does the same. Soon the ripples become waves and the water slushes over the side. The things I’ve done so far to prevent the water from overflowing are lowering the water (social withdrawal; I’m seeing less friends and less acrobatics) and raising the side of the pond (creating a study plan and structuring my work in a better way).
That did not prevent my beloved threesome from throwing rocks into my pond. I reckon time will make the waves become ripples again and a colleague suggested walking. Through walking the though process goes into an automatic, older part of the brain. This part is more adapt in soothing the waves of my hyper reflectiveness into becoming ripples.
Today I walked in “park Brakkenstein” and it’s botanical garden.

Hard times

It’s over. Eva and I dearly like each other, but we don’t have enough of a click to have a relationship. It’s hard on the both of us for different reasons. I’ll explain in more detail if I see you face to face or call you.

I’ll have enough diversion seeing as my new job takes up a lot of my time and a lot of my energy. My work as a physiotherapist is exactly the way I want to do it; work with people in an active setting and use my social skills to give them a push in the right direction. I’ll be doing a practical placement in another center to see how they work and I’ll be starting a two-year course at the end of September. The bachelor course is in Almere, which is far away from where I’m hopefully going to live; Nijmegen. The course is going to be provided by OCA academy, which is our own education institution. Luckily these courses are also recognised by the national Dutch physiotherapy counsel.

Getting a house doesn’t seem to be working out as well. The apartment I looked at today seemed little bigger than my former college dorm. At another apartment I became number 6, so I can only hope that the first 5 won’t take it.

Certainly the samba festival is going to take my mind of things.

Holiday in Zeeland

Changing jobs, colleagues to consider, a busy girlfriend; all stuff that made my holiday very short and very hard to plan. When I finally had the chance to go somewhere with Eva it was only for a weekend. We decided to literally go Dutch and go to Zeeland. The weather forecast was bad. Fortunately the bad weather must have been somewhere else, because we only had sun.
It was the first time in my life I camped and it was fun. I am used to renting a house somewhere and stay for a few weeks.
To summarize the holiday:
- we had gulls fighting over bread
- we drove bikes like harley davidsons
- we saw a chariot drive
- beautiful buildings and scenery
- very cold sea (2 cm)
- nice restaurants

On the edge

Things are a little hectic. My motorbike is being fixed, being in love, paperwork to be taken care of in Germany, and trying to get used to my new job. All a bit much. Luckily I have some off-time. Walking with two good friends through a forest and doing free hand photography is nice.