Lenka´s Corner

So yes. This is what happened. I am going to visit London again. The original plan was to visit it either way, I just didn´t know it would be due to such special circumstances. A professor I adored, respected and idolized so much during my studies, is now working at one of the universities in London. Why do you mention this, you may ask? Well, the thing is, I am writing my PhD thesis under “his wings” and his stay in London opened many doors for me, namely the doors of The British Library and its archives. I am going to spend time looking at manuscripts of many famous writers, turning the fragile pages in white gloves. For some people, it may sound boring. However, for me, it´s a dream come true and one of the fruitful outcomes of my hard work.   Of course, I am not going to spend days locked away in the archives. I have so many plans and so many places to visit that now, when I am planning everything, it seems like I won´t have time to sleep. I decided to share some of the typ...

So, it happened. My little sister got married last Saturday. Let me tell you, the whole weekend was filled with emotions; from emotional ugly-crying to nervous laughing – everything you can imagine. I was doing her hair and make-up. I practiced. A lot. Like the first-week-of-the-wedding-announcement practiced. Almost every weekend, we would sit down (or my sister would sit down, I was jumping around her sitting on a bar chair, doing my best), but there just wasn´t something right with the hair. She wanted a bo-ho half-updo hairstyle and Hollywood waves at the bottom. Nope… After two or three tries, we (or she, rather) rejected the hairstyle and came up with braided half-updo because that´s what I can do. Braids. So, I was watching YouTube tutorials every single evening and trying hard to come up with something I could do, even on the wedding day. I came up with this Daenerys-inspired hairstyle with a side parting. From the part with the less amount of hair, I braided a Dutch br...