It’s basically been over a year since I’ve been in dA for more than 10 minutes!  So much has happened since my last post :D I could go on and on about how awesome my past year has been and all the amazing things that have happened, but that would take way to long and I’m lazy :')

I will, however, offer a little summary:

• My exchange semester in the UK was AMAZING, so good, in fact, that in the end I decided to transfer universities and now I’m finishing my studies here (It’s funny how it sounds so simple now, but at the time it was one of the most stressful moments of my life :’) ).
• I’ve fallen in love with the sweetest, silliest, most wonderful boy in the world and am lucky enough to get to spend every day with him!
• He really is a silly.
• I miss my family and friends back home quite a lot.  But during the past year at least I got the chance to visit them a couple of times, which was nice :D BUT! I’ll be seeing my parents and sis on New Years! :D We’ll be meeting in New York, yay!
• I went on a 700km bike trip with my bf over the holidays.  From Amsterdam to Cologne and back (We bought our bicycles second hand in Amsterdam, we got quite a good deal!).  The trip took us about two weeks and we camped almost every night.  It was an amazing journey, but incredibly tiring though!
• I haven’t experienced summer since Febuary 2013 :’) srsly, wth even is warmth.
• Visited Lithuania!
• Will visit Lithuania again for Christmas!
• Dissertation = Death
• I haven’t really been doing photography much… Like at all.  I know it’s quite sad.  But I’ve kinda moved on into animation now.  I still love photography though! I’ll always will :D

 So yep… Basically I’m still studying in England, about 7 months away from getting my degree in Animation and no closer to understanding the mackem accent! :D

 Hope everyone’s doing fine! I’ll try to come here more often.  And I’ve got a lot of animated happiness that I want to share with you!

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Hello everyone! It's been so long since I last posted a personal blog, but I've finally found the time.  I've been living in Sunderland for almost a month now and I'm loving the experience.  It's my first time living by myself so everything is so new and fun haha.  I've made friends with wonderful people (Mostly other exchange students like myself) and I simply LOVE my classes.  I'm studying animation in a way and with the resources that are quite unimaginable for my home country so I'm extremely grateful. 

The first weeks here were a bit hectic though as all of my classes were messed up, but now all is good I have classes from Monday to Wednesday which means that I'll have loads of time to travel during the weekend.  And for homework and study.  Yeah, that too…

I'm only taking animation and life drawing classes.  I'm currently creating a character with clay that we'll later scan (Yes, I get to use the 3D scanner! ) into a 3D program and animate him from there.  I like my character; He's evil, lazy and moody  

I also have a class where we do mostly traditional animation, so they have me drawing all the time.  It's great, but it's also hard considering that I haven't really drawn in years But I do get to use the Cintiqs, so there's no complaining haha OMG CINTIQS. They change your life.

What else…?

I went to London with some of my friends last weekend.  That was a lot of fun too Now I'll have to sit with them and start planning our next travels.  I'm thinking Rome.  Or Stockholm.  I'm definitely going to Iceland…

I'm happy, happy, happy

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I'm writing you from Sunderland right now, I finally got here like two weeks ago

Sorry that it took me so long to post the results, but my weeks here have been a lot busier than expected.  I'll surely be writing journals about my experiences in the UK in the near future. 

Now back to the contest! Thanks a lot to everyone who participated, I hope you all had a nice time creating your entries, at least I know that I enjoyed a lot watching/reading them

The winners for my Adventure Contests are:

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2^nd PLACE

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1^st PLACE

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Congratulations everyone!! You really did an awesome job!

Again, I would love to thank everyone who participated, I loved all of the entries

I really liked this experience, and as soon as I have enough points again, I'm sure I'll start a new contest

Have a great week everyone and congratulations to the winners!

Hello everyone!

I got back from Norway last week (I've just been really lazy about updating stuff…).  Anyway, I took TONS of photos, so I'll be uploading the best of them pretty soon.

The trip was… amazing.  We drove from Frankfurt all the way up to Lofoten before we had to head back.  The Volvo we had rented was not available when we got to Germany at the beginning of the trip so we were upgraded with a beautiful and brand new BMW.  I didn't know cars could be that epic hahaha the trip definitely wouldn't have been the same without that car  The thing had holograms.  HOLOGRAMS!!!

The car wasn't the only great thing about the trip though; the scenery that Norway has to offer simply delighted us.  The further north we got the more it looked like Iceland, which for me it was the best thing ever seeing as I'm completely in love with Iceland

I must admit it's a bit weird to realise that our Norway trip is in the past though.  That journey was the only thing standing between me and my going off to study in the UK for a semester.  Just a few weeks to go…

Unfortunately, I'm still really busy with work.  Truth be told I'd like nothing better than to have absolutely nothing to do these next few weeks other than visit my friends and say my goodbyes until 2014.  But no… I still have to save up for my camera somehow! I'm starting to hate that bloody camera.  Y U SO EXPENSIVE???

That's it!

If you haven't done it yet, don't forget to check out my "Adventure Contest" for the chance to win up to  1000 C'mon, it'll be fun!   Here's the info: purplekyloe.deviantart.com/jou…

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I'm finally on winter holidays!!! I'm in the airport with my family right now, waiting for our plane to depart (There's less than an hour to go ). We're off to Germany where we'll rent a car, visit some lovely cities and then we'll drive over to Norway (The idea is to go as far up north as we can before we have to turn back to catch our plane back home )

In any case, I wanted to post this before I leave just in case I don't log in much during our trip ^^

I'd like to share with everyone all the entries that have been submitted so far for my "Adventure Contest"

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Thanks so much to everyone who is participating! Thank you for your support and I really hope you've all had fun creating your entries

If you're interested in the contest, then there's still time for you to join! Remember that you're competing for the chance to win up to 1000 you can submit as many entries as you'd like and all art mediums are accepted, so even those who are already participating may continue to submit artworks

Here's the journal with all the rules and info: purplekyloe.deviantart.com/jou…

I hope everyone has a great weekend, take care!