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
  • Personal
    • My Ideal World
    • About me and this blog
Menu

Weekly diary #84: I passed my thesis proposal defense!

Posted on April 4, 2019January 24, 2023

Hi there! Welcome into my weekly diary. I try to live an eco-positive lifestyle. I want to do more good than bad in my life, preferably every single day. How I do this and what that actually looks like on a daily basis? That’s what I want to discuss in these weekly diaries. I am not claiming to be perfect, but I do want to show you that living with a positive impact is fun! The past week I attended a 21 dinner of a friend, picked up some trash and passed my thesis proposal defense! Want to read along? Here’s weekly diary #84.

Thursday

Today I first emptied my worm bin, I removed the fluid from the lowest bin (which is basically worm pee). I mixed it with water and put in the garden and some in-house plants. It feels so amazing to have this little worm bin! I put food scraps in there and what I get is fertilizer for my garden. Amazing and zero waste.  The past weeks I am really having a hard time making original dishes for dinner. So today, I ate homemade french fries, again. My mind is filled with other things right now and I can’t seem to eat healthy these days. I do workout about 5-6 times a week, so that’s going well. I also want to eat healthy and meditate every day. Let’s hope it’ll get better, because eating fries every day is not a good plan (even if they’re home made without oil and zero waste). After handball training today we as a team decided to have to drinks at a terrace in the city centre. We drank cocktails and I ordered mine without straw. Even though nobody else did, I do feel very good about it. I am making a difference here. I also did have a vegan, low waste (because of the wooden skewer) snack, olives. Again, making the difference (for the animals, people and the environment) and it feels amazing.

Friday

Today wasn’t so special. I worked out in the morning and worked at my part-time job in the evening. The weather is getting better these days and so I really try to sit in the sun (with suncream of course) and get some vitamin D.

IMG_20190403_185038_316

Saturday

When I woke up today I wanted to work out but there were no nice classes in the gym so I gave myself a weekend off, since I worked out 5 times already this week. Me and my mom went into the city centre together. I recycled my old phone case at an electronics recycle station, since I had gotten a new one for free from Fairphone. I didn’t really know what to do with the old case and so I contacted Fairphone. Contacting a company is always a good thing, since it raises awareness and in some cases they have figured out how to recycle your old things already, like they did here. We had lunch at de Broodbode in Enschede. I forgot to ask them to serve my sandwich without a napkin, stupid. Then, I also forgot to take the napkin home to compost it. Ugggghh. Better luck next time, at least it was plastic free. Mom also has a lot of these little tattoo cards of insects they give away at Albert Heijn now. They’re temporarily and so cute. We did some grocery shopping and I got some things, in plastic. They’re all vegan and palm oil free. I wanted to try some things and they are just so good I don’t mind the plastic. Living vegan is more important to me than living plastic free. Meat replacers are just not available package free or plastic free. One of the few exceptions I make. I bought vegan Magnums, vegan sausage, a vegan celery and apple salad and some vegan chicken burgers (for the 21 dinner I have tonight, they asked me to bring something). At noon I booked the first tickets for my train trip to Albufeira this summer! I am ditching the plane, hell yes! I have to be honest, this is terrifying and exciting at the same time. At night I went to a 21 dinner from one of my dearest friend. We gave her a combined gift with three persons. For the package I bought three tiny plants. Not entirely zero waste, but the best gift I could think of. We wrapped the basket full of gifts in plastic. A long time ago I saved a roll of plastic wrap from the garbage and now it was time to make use of it. Zero waste! It was a lovely night, they cooked 5 courses all vegan for me, how sweet! After the dinner we went out and at around 4/5 am we went to get a snack. I got some fries in a paper bag, I always go tot the same store since I know they don’t serve it in plastic there and asked if I could get it without the plastic fork. The man behind the counter was fine with it and so, I got a plastic free night!

Weekly diary #84
Weekly diary #84
Weekly diary #84
Weekly diary #84
Weekly diary #84
Weekly diary #84
Weekly diary #84
Weekly diary #84
Weekly diary #84
Weekly diary #84

Sunday

Sunday, lazy day. I am working on a sign for my bike, for Loose, my package free webshop. Since it is a webshop, it’s not really visible, so with this sign I want to make people aware of this package free option. At night, I watched a documentary (which I do a lot these days). I love to keep myself educated, especially on problems in the world. I want to know and do as much as I can to solve them. Also, I am always inspired by good documentaries.

Weekly diary #84

Monday

Since I am preparing my thesis proposal defense for tomorrow, I didn’t do many other  big things today. I started the day in the gym, had a driving lesson (which went horrible, goodbye confidence), watched a documentary and worked on the sign for my bike. Being productive makes me feel very good and so I try to make the best of every day. My dad also booked a holiday today, to one of the Dutch islands (so we’ll travel there by car!) for a week. I am so exited! I love the Wadden Islands and I can’t wait to go. It’ll be a huge reward for passing my thesis, because we’ll go when I hand in my thesis. I am looking forward to it! The beach, walks, sun, books, games, rest, sleep, aaaahhh.

Tuesday

So, here goes nothing. I went to school for the test and I passed it with a 7! Oh my, I can’t really express how much confidence that gives me. A huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders and now I’m eager to finish this thesis semester with a good mark and a good feeling. Let’s do this! After that, I walked the dog and wanted to pick up some trash while doing that. After a while I realized that the bag was broken and so things were falling out again, bummer. I made a planning for the rest of the week, since I can finally move on with my thesis project and the rest of the day I chilled. Celebrating, it’s important to me.

Weekly diary #84
Weekly diary #84

Wednesday

Starting the day in the gym again, yes! I did some chores and prepared dinner already, since I’ll be in the train during dinnertime. I worked after those things and then I went to my boyfriend. We don’t see each other a whole lot since I am doing my thesis and he works full time, so these nights are great.

Weekly diary #84

Yours sincerely,
Romee 

2 thoughts on “Weekly diary #84: I passed my thesis proposal defense!”

  1. Pingback: Weekly diary #85: I got admitted to the University of Amsterdam! – When A Teen Goes Green
  2. Pingback: Weekly diary #85: I got admitted to the University of Amsterdam! |

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 269 other subscribers.

ABOUT ME

 

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!

Yours sincerely,
Romee

Here’s what I posted most recently

  • Documentary: I am Greta
  • 5 things I don’t buy
  • My positive impact in 2022
  • All my new purchases in 2022
  • Eco-positive toilet paper: The Good Roll

Translate this site

Follow me on Instagram

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 🥦. Elk jaar stel ik mezelf als doel om geen nieuwe spullen te kopen. Er is weer een jaar voorbij, dus het was tijd om te evalueren. Is het me gelukt om in 2022 geen nieuwe spullen te kopen? 🛒 Je leest het vandaag op m’n blog. Ook tijdens het gourmetten kan je heel makkelijk vegan eten 🌱. Zie hier wat ik at als vegan op de tweede kerstdag 🎄. Gourmetten is een topoplossing als je niet uren in de keuken wilt staan. Lekkere snacks kopen, even snijden en alles neerzetten en bakken maar!

Read my latest posts

  • Documentary: I am Greta
  • 5 things I don’t buy
  • My positive impact in 2022
  • All my new purchases in 2022
  • Eco-positive toilet paper: The Good Roll

Subscribe by e-mail

©2023 When A Teen Goes Green | WordPress Theme by Superbthemes.com