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Digital Detox

Hello World! So the Digital Detox was a little project that I gave myself several weeks ago (after seeing Estee Lalonde do a video about it) to try and move away from my dependence on technology. I had hit the point where I was reaching for my phone or going online without any particular purpose, it was just to pass the time. So I took it upon myself to spend 48 hours without my laptop or my phone. I shut both down and put them into my desk drawer and launched on quite the adventure. Below I have listed the observations/lessons that I learned about myself from it. 1. Because I don't own a watch or a clock, my sense of time was completely skewed and something that I found myself worrying about quite a lot even though there was no reason for me to know the time. 2. It allowed my body to fully recuperate in the way that it needed to. When I began the detox I had a massive headache and was just generally feeling exhausted from the week's work. I went to bed incredibly early on...

An American in the UK

Hello World! Yes, I am alive. I apologize for the length of time that has spanned since the last time that I wrote a real blog post. As you may or may not know between the last time that I wrote a post on here and now, I moved from the West Coast of the USA to the beautiful county of Surrey in the UK to study at an absolutely wonderful drama school. What I didn't fully comprehend when I made the move was just how hard I was going to have to work and just how hard moving an ocean away from your hometown is. Not to say that I am not enjoying myself or regretting the transition, on the contrary I am having the absolute best time of my life and I have never before felt more on the right path. But that doesn't change that moving to a new country can be a bit trying at times. I still feel like I'm just in the moving in stage but in reality I've been here for a whole of about 11 weeks now, which is quite a length of time. So, I thought I would push myself to get back into the ...