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Still in disbelief that I just started my last semester of undergrad!!
This semester I’m taking:
Online school is really tough and this semester is going to be stressful in a lot of professional/career ways, but I’m determined to enjoy my last semester of undergrad!
I’ve been thinking about Howl’s Moving Castle and how Sophie’s curse is a physical symbol of her self belief of being romantically unlovable (especially after growing up with beautiful, sought after women in her family.) How Howl tries to undo the curse the moment she steps into his castle but he *cant* because Sophie doesn’t want it to be broken. How, in the film, Sophie gets so close to breaking the curse in the field, but hearing Howl call her beautiful went against her self views, so she reinforces her sense of self by turning 90 again.
And the way that her love and kindness make her younger again and again. How film Sophie sacrifices her long hair, perhaps what past Sophie would have seen as her only beauty, for Howl but she’s grown so much that she still remains young, perhaps even confident about her grey hair, showing that Sophie no longer links her appearance to her lovability or worth and she learned to accept herself as she is. In this essay I-
a bunch of scribbles
By: pundaelena | pundaelena
//Last week was chaotic, there was so much I had to do in a short period of time but it’s over now (finally). This week isn't going to be much better as I have one last midterm to study for on Wednesday and after that its time to get to preparing for exams in April//
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June 2019
may 6 — first strawberries of the season ft. the parisian muji store, upon which we accidentally stumbled while trying to find the pantheon ✨ can’t believe our trip to paris was a month ago already!
09.10.16 cleaning my desk is so satisfying 💪🏻 wish me luck for the start of yr 12 tomorrow!
23.06.2019 “But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.” -Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited.
2/100 days of productivity 💭
- visiting a museum, visiting a new coffee house, german flashcards, reading a book for history class.
some Korean notes and more of Oxford, because i. just. love. that. place.
20.06.19
J U N 4 / 19 omg its been a while since i posted oof :( finished some of my May spreads up and they turned out super cute :)) have a great june everyone !!
— june 14 2019
finally some original content from kat lol. i’ve been pretty busy since school ended and obviously i haven’t had any homework or assignments (other than summer hw i don’t wanna do) so i thought i’d just show you guys some of my notes/notebooks from this year ! the composition books are my two earth science notebooks and the spiral one is my euro book notes
