News: friends
Everything I know about love
For the past month or so I have been burying my face in this yellow paperback on my commutes to uni and before bed – it’s a book called Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton.
Social battery
Mid semester break is the perfect opportunity to catch up with friends, visit somewhere new, or perhaps stay out partying. However, this can be so exhausting.
Long distance friendships
Friendships come and go – that is the inevitable truth of the world we live in.
Making friends as an international student
The first time I arrived in Australia was over a decade ago as an international student. You can only imagine how thrilled I was to be on this two-year adventure in a strange land and living on my own.
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Diverging friendships
University is a great time to make new friendships and form bonds. However, it is also a very formative and rapid period of life and as quickly as friendships arrive, they also diverge.
Friendship and distance
We grow accustomed to our friends being around; they form part of our routine, even part of our identities. What happens, then, when friends are separated by distance – big or small?
Connection in the midst of isolation
It's a pretty scary time in the world right now. We can't control everything happening around us, but we can control some things, and we can learn to find connection and, importantly, hope.
Weekend wrap-up: Stirling Market
I recently spent a Sunday at the Stirling Market.
Wedding thoughts
As I have blogged about before, I am to be the bride’s ‘best man’ in the upcoming wedding between two of my friends.
