It's June, beatiful June.
Usually this means last exams, oral exams in particular, last weeks before the summer holiday. Maybe being able to wear a skirt outside, and maybe leaving your jacket at home. It's the month when you're finally free from the slavery of school, when the flowers have come and you can lie on the grass. The month before July, a month which exists in our minds as an empty space of golden sunshine and green green grass, a month when there are no obligations, no early mornings, no homework to do in the afternoons. You go swimming and are called back home for dinner outside on the lawn.
Where July is a green and golden month of freedom, June is when it is getting greener, when the sun shines stronger, when you get just a little more free. It's the month when it's always light, even in the middle of the night. A week ago it would be dark for a half hour or an hour in the middle of the night. Now, when there are no clouds, it will never be pitch black. It's still three weeks till it starts getting darker again, three weeks without complete darkness. June, it's the month of light. That's what it feels like. That's what it is to me.
And now it's here.
June, the month of full-time employment, half-finished stories, and hypothetical weather.
ReplyDeleteIt still gets dark around here before 10:30 p.m., this city can never escape that, no matter how many street lights they put up. Now, it's raining, so it's grey and nonchalant. Enjoy your freedom, green grass, and neverending light. Around these parts, such things would be such fiction that one would only believe it if it was a dream.
That was very beautiful what you said.. like poetry :)
ReplyDeleteby the way, so in June, sun never sets or is it like setting late? I miss snow so much.. Send some snow to Australia will u... We are suffering from too less rain and too much heat :P
In Bergen the sun sets at around 10:30 these days. Where I'm from a little further north it sets earlier because there are tall mountains. But way up north, if there aren't many mountains, the sun will not set at all. I think that's only a little later in summer though. That's why Norway is the Land of the Midnight Sun
ReplyDeleteWow seems to me like a dreamland :)
ReplyDeleteoh, just the random ramblings of a girl lost in her own world...
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ReplyDeleteyeep a random peoeple all over teh world saying random stuffs
ReplyDeleteI wish June was a beautiful month here. Unfortunately in Japan it means 'rainy season' - heat, humidity, and mould on everything. :-(
ReplyDeleteYou are making me envious.