School Notebook


I spent about 13 years of school HATING my own notebooks. It always seemed like everyone around me had really nice and effective ones, I do remember seeing some nastier than mine though. After school I didn't care much more about it. My notebooks became more graphical and filled with to-do lists or notes.

Now that I'm starting to try to teach myself Dutch, I look at my notebook and it's again quite repulsive - this makes that I will probably never be able to access anything from here, so it's more about the process of writing it down than to access it again in the future.

A way to improve this situation is by using drawings - by concentrating and making the drawing, I access a better memorisation. Some people use colours but I normally just get all lost in the different markers and pens and mostly, the colour scheme in use; then there's no more consistency and it becomes an extra distraction.

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