Apologies!

I know, I know. It has been almost 4 months since I last posted something on my blog! And I am truly sorry. My South Korean fanbase must be really angry with me, and I cannot blame them.

I knew that life in the Philippines would be very different from my life in Norway. I cannot hide the fact that for the last few months I have been a little depressed. Seeing my friends in Norway celebrating autumn (my favorite time of the year) with mutton stew and red wine, reading about the cold weather, and seeing their pictures of half frozen lakes and forests. And here I am in the Philippines. I have experienced four typhoons since my arrival here. The temperatures range from mildly comforting to excruciatingly hot. I am running out of money to travel, I am still jobless. I take less and less pictures. To make the long story short, I am heartbroken. Devastated, even. With each passing day I keep looking back, and wanting to return, to my old life.

But December is here and under no circumstances should I be sad and despondent on my birthday month! I have given it a lot of thought lately and I realized that I have been looking at things the wrong way. I keep comparing my life here to the one I had in Europe when I should instead be finding new things to do and love here in the Philippines instead. Of course I will always miss Norway, it is after all the country I grew up in. But I am in the Philippines now, and NOW is what matters. One can only dwell so much in the past before life starts to stagnate.

So now I start the last month of 2013 armed with the desire to start anew. A new career, new friends, and hopefully a new love. I have learned from the mistakes of the past and I can definitely say that I am armed with the experience to make my new life here in the Philippines to be really...badass!

(A special thank you to our cats Quad and Almond for gracing this otherwise boring blog post!)