a month in a nutshell ♡ 2016.12

The last weeks have passed like a blur and after realizing that I haven't done anything for New Year, let alone a year or at least December in a nutshell, the two first days of the new year are already over. 

For the sake of completeness, I'm here to send in the last (horribly belated) month in a nutshell for 2016 today, which only consists of a handful of highlights that I captured last month.

   

a month in a nutshell ♡ 2016.11

As you can guess by the lack of updates and the fact that even this résumé is a couple of days too late, November turned out to be crazy busy - all the more reason to share some impressions of how it was like; November in a nutshell.

a month in a nutshell ♡ 2016.10

It feels kind of weird that it is already time for another month in a nutshell again. 

After life has been kind of slow the last weeks of September it sped up rapidly in October and there is so much that changed or is in change right now, I can't even grasp it completely yet - standing in the middle of it all.

It's actually so much going on right now, that I struggle to write coherent sentences right now - there is still so much whirling around in my head.

I hope that sitting down and writing about October and remembering some of the things I did the past couple of weeks will slow me down a bit. Maybe this will make the spinning stop (it's a great excuse to not do my homework, too - even though I will most probably regret it tomorrow).

a month in a nutshell ♡ 2016.09

Though it may seem like it, I haven't abandoned my blog completely yet.

Admittedly, I have spent the last couple of weeks in some sort of creative low tide and can't say I have recovered from it when it comes to my blog. 

However, I want to keep these résumés as an active part on my blog to show that I'm still alive, until I have made up my mind about yukulicious' future.

This weekend is followed by a holiday that has a lot of historical meaning for my country, but I'm busy with a lot of things and won't rest during the long weekend.

September has passed like it lasted only a couple of seconds, though looking through my photos for today's update makes me recall quite a couple of activities I was occupied with the last couple of weeks.

Click read more and check out my September in a nutshell!

a month in a nutshell ♡ 2016.08

Checking the amount of photos I uploaded to twitter this month contrasts highly with my general impression of not doing anything this past month, but actually this shows that I was up to something this summer after all and have a more or less legit excuse for the lack of updates here.

I'm not sure how much damage this did, since I didn't receive a single comment or any form of reaction from anyone the last two updates but I still promised myself to finally get back into blogging and update more regularily again.

I desperately need some structure in my life again, so I can't wait to overcome my weaker self and start going to the library more often again and start to work on my research and the internship report that's still due, starting next week.

   

Anyway, let's have a look at what August looked like for me - trying to pick the highlights out of more than 40 pictures between landscapes, food and lots of PokéGo. If you are curious and want to see all of them, feel free to check out my twitter (@ yukuchan) and follow me there!

a month in a nutshell ♡ 2016.07

It's almost August, so it's time to gather all the impressions and small adventures I undertook in July and bring it all together in this posting.
If you follow me on twitter (it's @ yukuchan), you already saw all of that but since I am not limited to 140 characters here, you might get a little deeper insight anyway.

   

경주 ♡ temple run

It's been literally months since I uploaded the first part of my day in Gyeongju and seeing that today, a year prior, I was already in Korea makes it even more obvious that it is about damn time to continue this series.

Today I want to talk about our adventureous trip to Hwangnyongsa and Bunhwangsa, as well as our night trip to Cheomseongdae and other sites around Gyeongju. This post will be really picture heavy, but as always, I will try to include some information about the sites I visited, as well.
And since I can't recall the last time when I visited so many historical sites on one day, I came up with that rather corny headline - I hope you don't mind...

After visiting Cheonmachong in Tumuli Park (you can read up on that here) we took a cab to Hwangnyongsa. Unfortunately I expected what I had seen on photos - like that one - before and couldn't find the pagoda - naturally since it's not there anymore.

a month in a nutshell ♡ 2016.06

I can't believe it's already time for a month in a nutshell again... life has been so busy this month.

I can't wait for my summer vacation, that will start in a couple of weeks - though there will probably be a lot to take care of the next couple of months, too.

Let's start with a small résumé of June.

spring reminiscence ♡

After it's been 2 months and 4 days since I posted the follow-up of catching spring, cherry blossom capture, I thought it was about damn time to finally post the great finale of the impressions and flowerage I deeply breathed in and captured on camera last spring.

The photos will include shots from around the Chinese and the Korean Garden in the Gardens of the World park that we visited, with lots of cherry and magnolia blossoms.

a month in a nutshell ♡ 2016.05

It's been so long since I was able to do an update. I'm sorry and it is frustrating me, too but these months have been crazy!

One of my university classes ends sooner this semester, which ultimatively means I'll have 4 more hours a week after next week, when the last lecture is.

I'm actually kind of sad that it ends because it's been one of the classes in my university career so far that I feel really had a positive impact on me and even if I had knowledge and were aware of most of the things we've discussed and learned, deepened my understanding for the matter.

So if you have the chance to take a class or be part of a project about Gender and Diversity, I warmly recommend it (I can't promise that your teacher & the whole program will be as great as the experience I made, though).

On the other hand, I look forward to it since I've been pretty much juggling with language classes, lectures and working hours of my internship all week since April and having one class less to worry about sounds like a dream.

University work piles up like crazy these weeks and I am actually two essays behind in Japanese class, that I still need to hand in asap...

Enough explanations and apologies, today I will finally give a small résumé of May and what this month was all about, in this (slightly delayed) May in a nutshell.

경주 ♡ dipping into Korean history

After I put up my Korean notebook haul and the special post about my visit to the SM popup store in Myeongdong, it's finally time to continue on and talk about my day in Gyeongju.

I actually just recently realized why I like to do my travelogs that detailed and late... they help me revive the memories and in some cases help to sooth my wanderlust. Sometimes it makes it worse but usually it freshens up my daily life that tends to be really hectic and uneventful (at least most of it isn't really blog-worthy).

a month in a nutshell ♡ 2016.04

After I skipped Wednesday's update because I had a deadline to deal with, it's time to welcome the new month and talk a bit about all the things I've done in Apirl - though you will have a small piece of April swooped over into May anyway, because I still haven't uploaded the last part of my spring blossom hunt.

 With the first of April came the first blossoms and just like last year the purple-leaf plum in my front-yard transformed into my favorite photo motive for the following three weeks.

cherry blossom capture ♡

After I've posted the first couple of impressions of my cherry blossom capture in my catching spring - post, I decided to share some more photos and impressions of the bloomage we had the chance to marvel at when we visited the Gardens of the World park two weeks ago.

I will only include the photos I took in the Japanese garden though. I went a little crazy and still have another 15 photos shortlisted but I don't know if I should include them in another posting, too.

Just because I can look at them without getting bored anytime soon, this doesn't have to apply to anyone else...

catching spring ♡

Today, the annual cherry blossom festival in one of Berlin's parks, namely the "Gardens of the World" in Marzahn takes place. However, I couldn't attend because it's my dad's birthday and I still have a lot to prepare until university starts again tomorrow.

I'm kind of excited for it, even though it's already the 4th time I start into the summer semester.

I somehow managed to get into almost all of my classes (only had to look for one alternative and got something rather nice) but the perspective to have to work for internship and go to university parallel is still really scary to me, though I will probably be able to get both done well.

There was still no way, I would miss my chance to see cherry blossoms up close this year, so I went to the park ahead of time, last Thursday with my boyfriend to take some photos and enjoy the blossoms while they last. It was really good to come this day because it's been rainig the last couple of days, making the chances of seeing the trees still in bloom slimmer with every little shower.

일기장에게 ♡ Korean notebook haul

I usually try not to talk too much about all the small obsessions I have and about all the little things I adore and can't keep my fingers off, but I can assure you, they are there.

One of these things is the unexplainable excitement that runs through my veins whenever I hold a new, empty notebook, diary or basically any other sort of cased paper to write on in my hands. I love the smell of freshly printed worksheets, newly bought books and new notebooks.

I also really, really like pens so in general, I'm in love with stationery. Especially when it's cute.

That being said, Korea turned into my personal goldmine (actually I mentioned that before in my sticker haul but whatever).

So, before I continue with photos about the day we spent in Gyeongju, I'll share all the notebooks with you, that I bought last summer, on the other side of the world.

Happy, happy Birthday girl ♡

I'm not sure how many of you actually noticed, but my birthday passed rather silently last week on Wednesday (APRIL 6), which means .... I'm twenty-two years old now!

LV 22 - man, I hope my speed stats increased... 

So in today's update I want to share some impressions of what's been going on last week...

I didn't have to go to my internship on that day, so I slept in, ate breakfast and cake with my parents, siblings, boyfriend and granny and simply enjoyed the free time.

raspberry cremecheese cake my granny makes every year especially for my birthday ♡

a month in a nutshell ♡ 2016.03

Ever since my internship started I have been really busy but it's a nice feeling to get things done and I actually look forward to university starting soon, too.

I can't deny that I want to laze around a bit and just don't do anything, from time to time.

It's been only the first couple of hours since I didn't have to worry about my termpaper anymore since I handed it in yesterday.

If you want to phrase it like that, it means that my real vacation actually just started... 

There is noone else to blame for that though... and I guess it will be just fine.

My birthday is also coming up and I'm working on a few things, hoping to be more active in another of my favorite hobbies again soon.

Anyway, let's start the résumé for March, one day early because I'll just be working for my internship tomorrow morning till noon again, anyway.

special ♡ SM pop up store & K-POP gets

People who have followed the updates about my trip to Korea probably remember that I uploaded a ton of pictures in a post about Myeongdong last November already.

Today, other than the previous non-chronological haul posts, I'll talk about a specific topic and share the small amount of impressions I've gathered while being in Korea.

Ironically, I bought more stuff related to Korean pop music and my favorite bands of that genre when I was in Japan than I did last summer when I was actually at the source.

부산 ♡ Haedong Yonggungsa

After falling sick, like I usually do during semester break, I'm still struggling to recover from the feverish state I spent yesterday in. But since I feel a bit better today already, I resumed the work on my term paper and didn't want to cancel today's update.

I hope that I can work on scheduling a couple of the upcoming updates soon, so that I don't need to stress about content anymore - I just didn't have the time to work let alone think about this the last two weeks that have been rather busy. Whatsoever, it's time to start into this new part of last summer's adventures in Korea. 

You can find an overview for my time in Busan here.

After visiting Haeunda Beach in the evening of our arival in Busan, my boyfriend, his mother and I got up early the next morning to visit one of the popular temples around Busan.

Before our departure from Seoul I did some research on places I wanted to visit and this Buddhist temple turned out to be my top favorite destination.

a month in a nutshell ♡ 2016.02

It's already time to welcome March 2016, time sure flies.

This also means that it is about time to share February stories and impressions in the usual nutshell with you.

I finished this semester's lecture period a couple of weeks ago, got a really good mark for my Japanese exam and currently work on my term paper, when I'm not cleaning or playing Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon.

But let's see what February was all about, next to the exam period that I motored through.