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Mary-Lou's birthday picnic

This is the third post about Mary-Lou’s birthday, which was right at the beginning of summer. We had a picnic at the park that resulted in complete madness and many, many, many NSFW photos that will never be shared (no boobs, think more drunk idiots).

picnic cupcakes

 

More photos after the jump

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One of my favourite people

These two photos were taken in the exact same place, the only difference being that the photobooth has now sadly been upgraded to a modern one. In 1997 we were looking at photos of Hanson in teenybooper mags, planning an outing to an underage disco, buying our first “adult” clothes and eating ice-cream (always the same flavour). In 2010 we were celebrating her engagement, talking about Hanson, browsing the same shops and eating ice-cream (still the same flavour).
My cousin is the only person in the world that I have so much fun with doing exactly the same things we did when we were 13 and, hell, even 3 years old. We couldn’t be more different and we couldn’t be more alike. She’s turning 27 today and sadly I can’t spend the day with her. I was going to call her at midnight and play mmmbop to her on the phone, but she didn’t pick up, so I’m dedicating her  a little blog post instead.

 

Mary Lou's birthday tea party

 

Sometimes I get out of the house...

 

 

The joys of getting mail

 

Our fake thanksgiving dinner/fake birthday celebration

 

Three people I would save in the event of a zombie invasion

 

On friendship

 

sunset in Munich

The other day marked four years since I moved to Munich. I find this very scary. I had never even been to Germany before and had no idea what to expect. That year turned out to be the best of my life and a completely life-changing experience. There is definitely a pre-Munich and post-Munich me. I got myself out of a depression I didn’t even acknowledge as such and managed to be actually H-A-P-P-Y. As in, “nothing is wrong in my life except for the fact that I’m leaving this place” happy. Obviously there are many factors that contributed to that state. I think it comes down to the combination of how much I liked the educational system there, studying some really fulfilling stuff and feeling like I was actually GOOD, living in a beautiful city where it is pleasant just to walk around and, most importantly, surrounding myself with amazing people.

I learnt a lot about friendship in Munich. I consider myself extremely lucky every time I think about how many of the people who now are my best friends I met there. Life throws us together with several bunches of people that we are more or less forced to welcome into our lives; those we go to school with, people we work with, university friends, camp friends, summer holiday friends, etc. and the sad truth is that most of those relationships die out even if they’re still your friend on Facebook. I find that, in most cases, people are forced upon us by the circumstances and, once these change, friendships tend to break because we realise that they were the only thing keeping the friendship alive. And because maintaining a friendship is hard work and, something people sometimes choose to ignore, reciprocal.

I keep a couple of school friends, a handful of university friends and my best friends I met through music and on a language learning holiday. I consider 7 of my Munich friends some of my best despite living in different countries. Needless to say, I have never been able to forge as many meaningful friendships from one single group. Considering I spent 12 years at school and 6 at university, the fact that I met so many of my best friends during the 11 months I spent in Munich is truly remarkable.

This video summarises what, for me, were some of the best moments of the year. Everybody who matters is in it.