Losing Weight. Suitcase Weight.

This week I’ve been trying to think of different ways to make my life just that bit more portable – after all, I can only take a suitcase weighing 20kg and one piece of hand luggage on my flight.  Although I have to admit I’ve been heavily distracted by the release of The Dark Knight Rises at the cinema this week, maybe even more so than my year abroad!

Back to my weight loss battle… everything is so much easier now thanks to technology, yay!  Some of the bulkiest items can be transformed into teeny tiny bits of electronic information that you can take anywhere.  One thing that will drastically reduce the amount of luggage is my Kindle – there is no doubt that this will weigh MUCH less and take up less than lugging around even just one larger book.  I’ve had it around 8 months and it is a lovely little thing.  Another possession I will have to say bye-bye to my Xbox 360.  At least I will still have games on Steam which I can access anywhere and even play them with my boyfriend.

I don’t even have to pack my friends into my suitcase thanks to technology!  They’re all in my laptop too.  I introduced my Grandad to Skype the other day since he recently got a laptop and he was saying it’s like something out of a sci-fi film so I think he was pretty impressed.  To be honest, our computers are already much better than anything they had in Star Trek, we just haven’t quite mastered teleportation yet. 

Clothes seem to be at the back of my mind at the moment, I’ve been thinking more about food.  Food can be a huge part of culture and I wonder just how different it might be.  Let’s consider Marmite for example – it’s a pretty British thing and it’s something I’ve eaten since before I can remember.  But in France however… it’s an alien product.  How can Marmite be in the International Foods section!?  Maybe I will have to use all that space I’ve saved on books and video games on Marmite.

Until next time.