Skip to content

When A Teen Goes Green

About an eco-positive lifestyle

Menu
  • Home
    • What is an eco-positive lifestyle?
    • New? Start here!
  • How to guides
  • Reducing negative impact
    • Veganism
    • Minimalism
    • Zero Waste
    • Sustainable Traveling
    • Sustainable and Fair Fashion
    • Intersectional Feminism
    • Circular Economy
    • The 9 Planetary Boundaries
  • Increasing positive impact
  • Inspiration
    • Recipes
    • Hotspots
    • Organizations and apps
    • Books, documentaries, films, series and podcasts
    • Books, Films and Series List
    • The Ultimate Zero Waste List
  • Personal
    • My Ideal World
    • About me and this blog
Menu
Weekly diary #18

Weekly diary #18: I was on a holiday

Posted on November 23, 2017July 30, 2024

Hi there! Welcome back into my personal weekly diary. You have probably (and hopefully haha) missed it last week. I was on a holiday for 10 days, to Fuerteventura. More than an entire week under the sun at the beach. But! I am back today with a new weekly diary for you. The week I was partly still on that holiday, started school again and threw some stuff ‘away’. Here’s weekly diary #18.

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday

On Sunday I came back from my holiday, that’s why I added all these days together. I was very lazy this holiday and I loved it. I slept about 12 hours a day but I don’t know why. Maybe I needed it. I sat at the pool or beach all day and then ate a lovely dinner at night. And for two days we rode around the island to see it. I read about 6 books as well. Last Monday a post came online where I wrote about one of them. I also read one fiction book as well, The Girl on The Train. It really lived up to my expectations! I can really recommend it. It even kept me up at night. I read The Sparkle, but I didn’t like it from the beginning. I have this habit: when I start a book I want to finish it. But I am working on that. I also started the book On/Off in my holiday and quit after 50 pages. This holiday was great, but not sustainable at all. We flew to Fuerteventura. I compensated my flight at Trees for All, but that’s not the solution as we all know. Hopefully, this will be the last time I flew. I also made some vegan mistakes on the holiday. I ate Tuc and biscuits until I found out they were not vegan. Then I quit! It’s a mistake but it’s okay. I didn’t go trash picking like I did on my last holiday in Gran Canaria, even though some parts of the island are very littered.

Weekly diary #18

Monday

Yesterday night I came back from my holiday and today normal life starts again. School. I have three courses this period. One of them is ‘Good Food’. Food and sustainability are very much related. We can’t have a sustainable planet if we don’t look at food production and consumption. It looks like it’s going to be a fun course! There are so many aspects to food.

Tuesday

I’ve though about it and want to share my waste more. I share what waste I prevent, but I should also share the waste I still have. This waste doesn’t contain waste from the groceries because I don’t get to decide over that. You can see what I threw away today below, and old make-up bag. It is quite filthy. That’s because I don’t throw away make-up, even if the packaging leaks a little bit. However, I can’t get it clean anymore and mom said it will break in the washing machine. I received it as a gift once and today I put the plastic part of the bag in the plastic waste bin and the other part in the textile trash. I also bought another new bag for my make-up. New? Yes. I bought a souvenir for my boyfriend on holiday. A bottle of local olive oil from a small village in Fuerteventura. But later I found out that packages bigger than 100 milliliter are not allowed in the plane back home. I didn’t want to waste the olive oil and so I bought a bag with small empty bottles. I put the olive oil in the small bottles, took it with me to the Netherlands and once there I but it back into the original packaging. Since those little empty bottles were in a strong plastic bag I figured I might as well make use of it. Next time I have to think better when I buy a souvenir.

Weekly diary #18

Wednesday

On Wednesdays there is one chore I have to in the house, vacuum cleaning. I don’t always like doing it. But I have tip for you to make it more fun! Put in some earplugs and dance while doing it. I do this all the time and it makes it so much better. I also sold another book on Marktplaats (a Dutch site for selling and buying secondhand stuff) today. That’s one thing less I own! I always ask people I know if they want to have my stuff, if they don’t I try to sell it on Marktplaats. For dinner we ate pizza today. Since I’ve gone vegan I eat pizza without cow-cheese. But today I went to the organic food store to buy some vegan cheese. I thought the texture was a little different, but it definitely gives the pizza something extra!

vegan cheese


Yours sincerely,
Romee

3 thoughts on “Weekly diary #18: I was on a holiday”

  1. Pingback: Weekoverzicht #37: ik vierde Pasen! – When A Teen Goes Green
  2. Pingback: Weekoverzicht #41: schoenen gescoord voor 20 cent – When A Teen Goes Green
  3. Pingback: Weekly diary #41: I bought shoes for 20 cents – When A Teen Goes Green

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Search for anything

Want to get an update every time I post something?

Enter your email address to subscribe to my blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 272 other subscribers.

ABOUT ME

 

when a teen goes green

Hi! My name is Romee and I live an eco-positive life. An eco-positive lifestyle is a lifestyle with more positive than negative impact on beautiful planet earth. Compared to most people, I live extremely sustainable. I don’t fly, eat meat or animal products, buy only secondhand clothing, etc. On the other hand, I try to help others as much as I can by donating a big chunk of my income, donating plasma, donating poop (yes!), volunteering, etc. On this blog you can read all about my lifestyle with only positive impact. I also have a Dutch Youtube channel (@duurzaamleven) and Dutch Instagram (@duurzaamlevenro). If you have specific questions for me, feel free to ask me anything.

Yours sincerely,
Romee (she/her)

Here’s what I posted most recently

  • The Planetary Boundary Novel Entities
  • The importance of a sustainable mortgage
  • 4 podcast tips – May 2025
  • Vegan restaurants in Enschede
  • Why my partner and I divide the household expenses equally

Translate this site

Search for anything

MENU

  • Home
  • New? Start here!
  • How to guides
  • Veganism
  • Sustainable Traveling
  • Sustainable and Fair Fashion
  • Inspiration
    • Must listen
    • Organisations
    • Books, Films and Series List
  • Personal
    • What is an eco-positive lifestyle?
    • My Ideal World
  • Zero Waste
    • The Ultimate Zero Waste List
  • Intersectional Feminism
  • Hotspots
  • Recipes
  • About me and this blog
  • Minimalism
  • Circular Economy
  • The 9 Planetary Boundaries

Follow me on Instagram

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookies

Read my latest posts

  • The Planetary Boundary Novel Entities
  • The importance of a sustainable mortgage
  • 4 podcast tips – May 2025
  • Vegan restaurants in Enschede
  • Why my partner and I divide the household expenses equally

Subscribe by e-mail

©2025 When A Teen Goes Green | WordPress Theme by Superbthemes.com