In need of letters (And of a better time management)

It's not my first attempt to blogging. All the previous ones failed and I'm not sure whether I can do better this time, but I've decided to give it a try and to change my approach. I used to write blogs on certain topics, such as postcards or my trips. This time I've decided to write about just anything that will come to my mind :) Of course, you can expect to read a lot about snail mail, train journeys and languages here, because those are the things that fascinate me and keep me alive :)

Having spent the whole weekend at home (due to a cold) I've realised that it' something I can survive, if I really want. This semester my weekends are 4 days long and that's way too much of free time for me. I've noticed that when I have a few days off ahead, I can barely motivate myself to do anything. Therefore I spent Friday and Saturday doing nothing (and my famous cold was an excellent excuse), but then I finally found some mental strength to fight my inner sloth (I really think I must have been a sloth in my previous life) and managed to write an article on how native language becomes a political issue in Ukraine in Moldova, an intro letter to a new penpal in Singapore, as well as to learn a bit of Romanian. I could be proud of myself now, but in fact I still think I need to develop a better time management. I still waste a lot of time - and I could say it's the Internet to blame, but if there was no Internet, I'd surely find something else to distract me from important activities ;) Do any of you face similar difficulties? Maybe you have some useful piece of advice? :)

My mailbox has been starving lately, but I hope some letters will come soon :) I must admit I'm really addicted to snail mail and therefore my mailbox's starvation led me to writing 5 intro letters during the last month. Well, maybe I shouldn't have done it, but isn't it good to get to know new people from time to time? I never allow myself to contact new potential penpals, when I have some unanswered letters in my pile of mail. So during the last month I finally had the chance to write those people, whom I had wanted to contact for quite a long while :)

 

Fariza was one of those people - I had been stalking on her Interpals profile for such a long while, so I'm glad we've finally agreed to become penpals :) I've sent my intro letter to her today and I hope it won't take too long to arrive. Hopefully soon I'll also have some incoming mail to share with you. And I can also promise you there'll be some Trains posts on my blog next week ;)