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Eco-positive weekly diary #116: Graduation in a borrowed dress

Posted on December 19, 2019January 24, 2023

Hi there! Welcome into my personal weekly diary. Great that you’re here! In this weekly diary I try to show you what an eco-positive lifestyle looks like on a daily basis. What decisions and choices make my life eco-positive? The past week I went to my graduation ceremony in a borrowed dress, had a vegan high tea and my holiday has started! Want to read along? Here’s eco-positive weekly diary #116.

Thursday

Today I’d like to highlight the things I put on my bread for lunch. I had the vegan celery-apple from Johma, which is entirely vegan. And on the other two sandwiches I had chocolate spreadchocolate spread, which is zero waste, vegan, organic, fair trade and palm oil free. The perfect thing to put onto your bread if you ask me! It’s maybe not the healthiest thing, but a good replacer for let’s say Nutella.

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Friday

Such an exiting day! My graduation ceremony! I had graduated back in August already but since I had a little delay the ceremony was today. Today I was wearing a borrowed dress from LENA the fashion library in Amsterdam. I borrowed it a while ago for this graduation, the Christmas gala, Christmas and New Years Eve. I borrowed it for 25 euros for an entire month. This way I can wear something else every time I have a special occasion, but still in a sustainable way. Lending is more sustainable than buying since you share one item with a lot of people. The graduation was amazing. I have worked for this piece of paper for the last 4 years and it feels good to finally hold it! Bachelor of Science in the pocket. I studied Facility Management. Right now I’m already studying somewhere else again. At the Free University in Amsterdam, to do a master in Environment of Resource Management. I think that is more in line with my values than Facility Management. After the graduation we went out to eat in Enschede at the Twentsche Foodhal. It’s a place where you can eat vegan but also non-vegan. So, for me there was good vegan food, but since my family is not vegan there was also something for them. I had a lovely seitan burger with nachos.

Saturday

I got a Christmas Box from work today. It’s a box stacked with a lot of food for the holidays. Since I eat vegan there’s a lot of food in the box which I do not eat and so I give this away to family. My boyfriend and I went to Harderwijk where we had a party at night. They only had disposable cups there and I forgot my reusable cup. Yet! They made an exception for me and put my drinks in a reusable glass all night. Zero waste, yes! I also met someone who is really into zero waste on the party, which was really great. It’s always so amazing to meet like-minded souls. We went out in the city centre for a short while and afterwards we went for a mid-night snack. I had a vegan burger, but it was not zero waste unfortunately. There was a small cardboard plate under it. Plastic free, so fine with me.

Sunday

My boyfriend’s grandma celebrated her birthday with a high-tea. Since I eat vegan they made some special things for me. It was lovely and tasty! No need to skip family celebrations, they just make vegan food for me separately.

Monday

Today my nephew came home from Stockholm, he had lived there for 6 months. We celebrated that once back home where I had a lovely vegan cake. It was very creamy and soooo good! Soon after I went to Sanquin, a Dutch institution where you can donate blood and plasma. I’ve been a donor since I was 18 since I like to help others. I am currently a plasma donor. They make medicines out of plasma and treat people with severe burns. Today was not such a good day since I almost fainted. That can happen sometimes, I probably did not drink enough. I did complete the donation but it is not a very nice experience. You get nauseous, sweaty but cold and yes, almost faint. The people were very helpful and after a small soup and some water I got to go home again. Now I can’t donate for 2 months but that’s fine. I will still continue, it’s just a tiny discomfort compared to the people who need the plasma. You save lives.

eco-positive weekly diary #116
eco-positive weekly diary #116

Tuesday

Judgement day! I had my first exam today, out of two. I was quite nervous but it went well I think. It was a tough exam. I brought some good zero waste lunch to get through the day on school. Once back home I edited my vlog from last week for on Youtube, you can watch that here. At night I studied for the second exam a little bit, which is tomorrow and after that I am officially free! Holidays! While studying I had a good vegan hot chocolate with whipped cream.

eco-positive weekly diary #116
eco-positive weekly diary #116

Wednesday

Today is the day! My second and last exam. It went quite well and afterwards classmates and I went to have drinks. At night I went out to dinner in Amsterdam with classmates at an Indian restaurant, it was very tasty! They had a lot of vegan options. We went out to celebrate the holiday and that’s it, I’m free for 2,5 weeks now!

eco-positive weekly diary #116
eco-positive weekly diary #116
eco-positive weekly diary #116

Yours sincerely,
Romee

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Hi! My name is Romee Hoeksma and I am on a journey to an eco-positive life. An eco-positive lifestyle is a lifestyle in which I have a more positive than negative impact on the beautiful planet earth. On this blog you can follow my journey to a life with only positive impact. At this blog you can find all sorts of things, from tips to recipes to personal experiences, but most of all fun (I hope!). I write about how I want to change the world, but don’t look at it as if I’m judging you. If anything, I like responses from my dear readers the most, so don’t hesitate to contact me or respond to any of my posts!

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Ik gebruik al jaren een bamboe tandenborstel, die van Humble Brush 🎋. Naast dat hun product duurzaam is, doen ze ook wat moois met de winst. Dat maakt een product nou echt eco-positief! Je leest meer over poetsen met bamboe op mijn blog, via de link in mijn bio. Vandaag op de blog: iets waarbij de relatie met eco-positief leven wat indirect is: diëten. Januari is dé maand waarin veel mensen weer aan het diëten slaan en daarom leek het me goed om deze post nog net op de valreep in januari te delen. De blog van vandaag gaat slechts over één van de vele nadelen van diëten: het leidt ons af van wat echt belangrijk is 🧐. Weten waarom ik dat denk? Lees dan nu het artikel via de link in mijn bio. Ik ga dit jaar weer de challenge aan om de winter door te komen zonder de warming aan te zetten. Hiervoor ging mijn essential, een warmwaterkruik 💦, kapot. In deze reel laat ik je zien hoe ik een ‘nieuwe’ tweedehands kruik kocht. Vandaag te lezen op whenateengoesgreen.com: een inspirerende documentary over Greta Thunberg: I am Greta. Een documentaire over hoop, maar vooral over doorzettingsvermogen 🔥. Lees het nu via de link in mijn bio. Meer vegan producten in de schappen, yay! Gisteren probeerde ik voor het eerst de vegan lentil tikki masala saus van Patak’s 🧑🏼‍🍳. Zie in deze reel wat ik ervan vond. Vandaag verscheen er een nieuw artikel op mijn blog over: 5 dingen die ik niet koop. Want we denken vaak dat we dingen écht nodig hebben, maar vaak is dat niet zo 🧠. Check het artikel via de link in miijn bio. Vorige week verscheen er een artikel op mijn blog over alles wat ik nieuw kocht in 2022. Dat is een groot deel van mijn negatieve impact. Deze week was het tijd om te kijken naar de andere kant van de medaille. Vandaag lees je op mijn blog een artikel over al mijn positive impact in 2022 🌞. Je vind de link naar het artikel in de link in mijn bio. Afgelopen week verscheen er op mijn blog een artikel over alles wat ik nieuw heb gekocht in 2022. Eén ding op de lijst waren deze onderbroeken (een stuk of 20). En nu denk je misschien: waarom zou je in één keer zoveel onderbroeken kopen? Op 31 december, nog net op de valreep in 2022, kwam er een video online op mijn Youtube-kanaal over voedselcoöperaties. Ik denk namelijk dat voedselcoöperaties ons voedselsysteem democratischer en eerlijker kunnen maken 🥦.

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