Alpacalligraphy

I'm the last to say this, but happy new year nevertheless ! I hope it's off a great start for you !

So this past year has been, again, very stressful, and very adventurous to me.
Short story: traveled to workcamps, moved to Bavaria, started an apprenticeship as a confectioner.
I would have loved to make more calligraphy than I did, but I think getting my life together was more important.
Now that my situation is stable, I really want to take some time for myself this year, to produce art and be creative. The next few days, I'm gonna upload some of the rare things I did.
Have a wonderful week !

Turns out, I'm not dead yet ! Hurray !
I hope you have all been doing well and that life is good.

I thought I'd share my current state and plans for the future with you.
As you may or may not know, I have studied tourism management for a semester and a half, which made me progressively more and more cynical and depressed. So I completely abandoned that. I didn't want to go to university anymore (regardless of the course - just NO university, that's it), yet I had no idea what to do instead. In the beginning of this year, I finally decided I might do an apprenticeship in France to become a pastry chef. I have now sent a few applications, still no reply except for a negative one. So I'm starting to feel slightly desperate and my mother is pressuring me to send applications in Germany as well, even though I. don't. want. to. (She has never been very supportive of my choices.)
Also, I have spent so much time asking myself what to do that I'm not sure of anything anymore. I HAVE to do SOMETHING and I know I need to get out of my comfort zone. Which I am impatient yet afraid to get out of.
Has anyone else experienced a phase like this in their lives ? Not knowing what to do after school, strolling through everything ? I'd like to know.
However, I am going to send an application for a calligraphy course in the UK. In case I don't get an apprenticeship, at least I'll have something. Something I actually want to study and will have fun with.

It's scary to think that within 4 months, my life might change completely again, depending on the outcome.
I'm hoping for the best !
Have a wonderful week ~

Now, I haven't been active on dA for the past four weeks...Sorry about that. To be honest, I've done no calligraphy whatsoever (okay, a birthday and a Christmas card >w<). I ought to get at my nibs again. Got any good quotes for me ? Or just completely random phrases, why not 8D.
I might now have an idea what to do with my life, I'm thinking about woodworking. I'll see if I could do an internship somewhere first. Time do do something. Although it's hard to get motivation. Not to confuse with pressure, which I get at home.
Anyway, happy Thanksgiving, for those who celebrate it and err... Have a wonderful day !

Yet again, another travel ! To Switzerland again, to do all the tourism I couldn't do during the workcamp. That volunteering project was the best I've done so far, though. Best working atmosphere, really friendly hosts and local volunteers, awesome music, beautiful place... Yeh, it was great !
I'm currently working on a collaboration project with a friend who's gonna exhibit her works and we thought "hey, I could write stuff and you could do the illustrations..!" (or something like that 8D). Hopefully I'll be able to show some works once they're done ^^.
Also, Christmas cards. I'll be working on these for the next few weeks, so that I got something to sell (and to send to friends).
So glad it's autumn now !

Hello, guys !
Been a while since I wrote anything here...! And I feel bad for posting so little calligraphy...*sigh*
Anyway, I'm departing to Switzerland tomorrow for another volunteering project (this time it's about setting up a music festival). Should be interesting, I think ! Can't really be worse than the last project, since we had loads of ticks and midges....also rhodos. Curse rhododendrons.
Other than that, I still have no real clue what to do in autumn. BUT I actually found a private calligraphy school in France...! I hope I'll be able to study there and do something else at the same time.
Let's see what the future brings.
Wish you all well !