Uh, hi peeps. Still know who I am? Well, just wanted to show myself again. A lot of things happened in the last two months, one thing being 18 now (YESSSS.)

I started drawing/scribbling again and I finished I picture I'll be uploading once I manage to fix my scanner ._.

Anyways, I hope you guys are all fine

~sugar

*points to title*

I used to enjoy browsing devART. I was always the first person to comment on a deviation that popped up in my message center. I always made sure that I answer every profile/deviation comment and note.
But I didn't have the time lately.

1. School.
Who would've thought of that? /sarcasm
Since it's my final year, teachers expect a lot of us. Our Math teacher wants us to make a so-called "Maturamappe" which is the summary of the stuff we've learned in the last few years. It should already have 100-ish pages and I didn't even start it properly. I only have around 15 pages done which is... not much.
I didn't submit a lot of homework and I failed the first math test. My teacher called up my mom and... let's just say she was pretty pissed.
We also have to submit our special topics for the final exam. I'm going to take four oral exams and that results in four special topics à ~15 pages. I should start those as well.

2. Music.
Some of you might not know that I'm playing the Cello. I've been getting quite a lot of invitations to Orchestras etc. lately and I have to play at four concerts in the next four weeks. I've had two concerts in the last two months and they were set at pretty unconvenient dates so I had no math homework for... two weeks. Which ruined me, to be honest. Having to practice only twice or three times a week just isn't enough. I actually have to play "Ave Maria" by Schubert tomorrow and I'm just not sure that everything will run smoothly.

3. Health.
I almost fall asleep during classes everytime. I just don't get enough sleep lately (around 4-5 hours a night, and I rarely sleep well).
Healthwise, I'm somewhere between "Pretty well" and "I'm going to collapse".
We have school at Saturday, so sleeping in isn't an option. My next ensemble rehearsals are at Sundays, so I guess I can forget about my sleep now. I eat little to nothing and I'm moody. To sum it up: I'm a wreck.

4. Lack of Inspiration.
The pile of unfinished pictures is piling up, but I don't really feel the urge to draw anymore. Everything has gotten so... so... I don't know. I just can't feel anything while I draw.

So I'll be taking a break from dA. I have no idea how long it'll take; perhaps a few months or something. I will be checking my messages evyry once in I while; it's just that I won't be commenting on every deviation anymore.

I hope you'll all have some nice holidays and you won't have to experience all this.

Wishing you all the best,
~Aureen a.k.a sugar

(Coming Soon: Main Journal about the journey)

I'll be uploading some photos in a moment or two. I will edit the descriptions soon once I've figured out where I took which picture ^^'

Please keep in mind that I'm still a beginner in photography, so any helpful tips are appreciated

... for a week. (HAH! I bet you didn't expect this, huh?)

My class will have a 1-week trip to St. Malo, France. We'll be staying at host families and we hope to *cough* improve our French a bit. Just a liiitle bit.

Our flight is at 5 am-ish, but we already have to be at the airport at 3:15 AM x_x

I started packing, but I can't finish since I still need half of my stuff this night before running off to the airport (You know, powder, perfume and all the other girl stuff *shot*).
It's also difficult to chose which clothes I should take with me since St. Malo is in the Bretagne and the weather is pretty unstable (?) there. Or at least that's what our teacher told us.

Speaking of teachers, two of them will accompany us. One is our French teacher (well, duh) and the other our Maths (!!) teacher. Both of them are huge kill-joys, so we decided we should just stay away from them as possible (St. Malo is more of a village than a city, so I've heard).

On the first two days we will be staying in Hotels in Paris Our teachers still didn't tell us the program there, but they already said that we are not going to be able to visit Versailles. Ah, well. Maybe we'll get to see some other interesting places.

Well, now here's the point of this huge monster-post:
Bye to you all, have fun on devART and don't forget me See you next Friday!

~Aureen