personal – lauri-l

A few weeks ago I found this family photo among my grandfather’s stuff, it was one of the oldest pics and the only pre-1960s one that was a candid rather than a posed portrait. I suspect it was taken in the garden of their house, which is in my village and still belongs to one of his brothers. My grandfather is the second on the right, his father (so my great-grandfather) is the man on the right with the silly trousers. The four girls are my grandfather’s sisters, including his twin sister Maria (who died before I was born so I’m not 100% sure which one she is, but I hope she’s the one in the centre since she has a bare midriff, which was sorta taboo in the 40′s in Italy, so that must mean she was super cool, right?) and his regular sister Rosa (who died today and was the only one among the four that I knew a little bit, I’m pretty sure she’s the tall thin one on the left). I have no idea who the man in the back is, I don’t think he was a member of the family though.

moving in today after the longest apartment hunt ever, yay

you know, you would think that the whole moving-abroad-in-less-than-two-weeks-and-finding-a-job would motivate me to do the stuff i need to do and stop procrastinating.
but no.

so megabus finally started being a thing here and they’re trying to promote themselves by keeping their prices super super cheap, so i bought a ticket to paris for the beginning of september. the plan was to move abroad eventually (i spent six month on erasmus in paris last year so it’s not completely random, i know the place and i know people there) so i might as well? at least i have a deadline to finish my portfolio now, and if i don’t finish it in time or i find a job somewhere else i’ve only lost 5 euros, i can deal. looking forward to the stress of finding a flat yay