Hit me with your best shot

Hit me with your best shot dundundundun why don't you hit me with your best shot?!

Haha, I've had this song stuck in my head the entire day! Kinda catchy.
So, within 2 weeks is my CAE exam... AAAHH stressing out (again. still. uhm.), I have so much left to do! I decided to read/talk/speak english as much as I can in order to prepare. So far it's going pretty okay.
And I STILL haven't finished Looking for Alaska. Oops. Haven't read anything in the last 4 days. There are only 40 pages left to read. Think I might finish it tomorrow. And then immediately start in The Lighthouse by P.D. James (Have to read that one for the exam).

Tommorow it's time for some sailing! Ah, love it! I teach kids between the ages of 8 and 15 how to sail in a small boat. I absolutely love doing that, it's so much fun. Myself, I took my first sailing class when I was 9 years old. I did it for 3 years, and now this is my 3rd year of teaching kids. (:

And for the rest, my weekend pretty much consists of homework. Dull. But it has to be done, hm? I'll just finish watching Dear John (oh Channing Tatum, how much I love you. Seriously, have you seen those abs...?) and going to bed. Bye!

Picture source: tumblr.

The perfect spring/summer song

The weather today was amazing in The Netherlands! Wow! Haven't seen that in a while.. But it was about 20 degrees Celsius and the sun was shining and it was just lovely and exactly what I needed at the moment. When I woke up around 7AM and opened my window I heard the birds whistling and the sun shone in my eyes and it was just perfect. And there is this song, which resembles that feeling so good, it is Plage by Crystal Fighters.

I listened to it all morning non-stop! (School did not start until 12 'o clock ^^)

Uh-uh, I know, the song is pretty old. But I love iiiit! Last summer when we went to Rome with the fam, I listened to the song on our way to Rome, and it just brings back a lot of great memories whenever I listen to the song. Summer, lovely weather, great time with family, relaxing, not worrying about a thing... kinda hard to explain.

But anyways, I just want to share the song with you guys, if you haven't heard it before.
ENJOY!

Lazy Sunday

 

*insert picture of the incredibly hot Knights of Camelot. Ugh.. Gwaine and Lancelot, why so handsome? *

 

Hello there! Well, today I don't feel like doing anything (and yes, that is also a Bruno Mars lyric). But seriously, I don't feel like doing ANYTHING. So I guess I'll just read a bit, do some homework, and study for my upcoming CAE exam (aaahhhh stress) and visit some family. Sound pretty chill, right (: I woke up early (8 AM) and here I am, still (11 AM while typing this) sitting on the computer doing absolutely nothing. I am watching an episode of Merlin right now, but it is too freaking scary so I just keep pausing it the entire time haha.

Haven't progressed much in LfA (Looking for Alaska, my current read) so that's something I need to work on :P I'm at page 70 or so. My goal for today is to read til at least page 120.

Hm... not much to talk about today, as you may have noticed haha. Just gonna leave it here and get off my lazy but and start doing something useful.

Enjoy your weekend/Sunday!

ALSO! How weird is this!? Just scrolling through the 'lazy sunday' tag on Tumblr, when I see a gif. of a scene in the Merlin episode I am watching right now. *poofffff* mind blown :D

Inspirational Quote #7

Define yourself.

Prettay!

I'm not much of a makeup girl. Actually, not at all. The only thing I wear on a daily basis is mascara. Thanks to my glasses that's the only thing I really need, because my dark circles are covered by the frame of my glasses. Oh, my extra 2 eyes, how much I love you (:


Oh well. But I needed some new mascara. After over 1,5 year my mascara is finally empty. Is that how you say it? Empty? Or should I just say "I ran out of mascara". Hm yeah, I think that's probably better to say. Even though my lashes are very short and even with mascara you can hardly see them, I like to make them just a bit more visible. So that's why I bought 2 new mascaras today. Look at that packaging! How awesome and pretty does that look?!
They are by the makeup brand Essence. I don't know if they sell in other countries, but they are very very cheap. Both of these mascaras were under €3. *explosion* How amazing is that!? Pretty amazing, would I say.


The background of the picture is totally my Greek homework by the way haha. We're currently reading about Odysseus' return to Ithaka. Already know the entire story but still pretty entertaining to read (:

Time to clean my room!

 

Yup, one of the biggest problems while being a teenager: cleaning your room and KEEPING it that way. And I am terrible at it. My mom is constantly talking about how I need to clean my room, but I just can't do it, for some reason. Everytime I clean it, it is just as big of a mess as it was before, within an hour. But the weirdest thing of all, is that WHEN I clean my room, I CLEAN it, like seriously clean everything. All there is to clean, I clean it, and I can't stop before all is perfectly in place. Uhhh weird? Yeah, pretty much. Explain to me! How does this work!? How do I keep my room clean and how can I keep away from moms constantly telling me to clean it up? Complications...


Oh, and the room you see on the picture, is obviously not my room. I got it from some lame bed site or something haha (:

Prometheus

Prometheus. One of the MANY main characters in the Greek mythology. Personally, I think all those myths are very interesting, and fun to read. For school I have to write an essay (and present it in front of class) about an ancient subject. Wow, that's a super clear instruction. Not. Oh well, me and my friend chose the myth of Prometheus, some dude who steals fire from the gods and creates the human race, along with Athena. No but really, I do like the myth, and it is very interesting to read. Could recommend it (:

50 Book Challenge and Movies List

Maybe you noticed, but in case you didn't: I have 3 new pages on my blog! One contains some information about me, and the other two are a 50 book challenge and a movies list.

50 Books
This is a challenge I found when I was reading the booksandquills blog. There are also a lot of videos on youtube about it. It basically means that you have to read at least 50 books in a year. And even thought 2013 started a while back, I'm stille going to attempt the challenge. Wow, that's gonna be interesting, especially since I only read 9 (shame on me) books this year.
Time for a change! I've been reading so little (is that correct grammar? help me out here please) lately and I want to change that. I'll just have to make time for it (: 
Good plan? Good plan. Wish me luck.

Movies List
Aaaaand I'm also trying to write down all the movies I have watched this year. Once again, my memory isn't too great and I don't remember everything, but the list is already pretty long so far. Now the only thing left to do is keeping up (:

That is all I wanted to talk about! Hopefully you enjoy my book and movies lists, and maybe you can take some inspiration out of it.

Currently reading.

 

Since it is weekend, I thought, why not starting in a new book? So I did. I chose to read 'Looking for Alaska' by John Green. I bought it 3 weeks ago while I was in London (waaahhhh london a;lsjdfljasdf love it there). And guess where I bought it.... HARRODS! How cool is that (:
Actually nothing special, but hey, there is only one Harrods, and the only things that are not ridiculously expensive are books. Mwuahaha. So I bought my book there.

I only just started in the book. I am currently on page.. uhh let me look it up. Just a sec. On page 31. Not much has happened yet, except I read some guy's visions on the female body. Ah.. how interesting. But I am very curious how this book's gonna be. Heard some pretty good stuff about it. I'll let you know if it is worth a read. (:


Picture source: tumblr.

TV tip: New Girl

Hello everyone! Today I want to share one of the (in my opinion) funniest TV shows I've ever seen: New Girl. New girl is a TV series about a teacher, Jessica "Jess" Day, who moves in with 3 other guys who are all just as insane as she is: Nick, Winston and Schmidt. They constantly do stupid things and mess everyting up but always support each other in their stupidness.

Sometimes it's a bit weird, and there are a lot of childish sex jokes, but it is super funny. Approved!

I've watched this series since the first episode. Last week the season finale of season 2 aired, so if you're interested, you have 50 episodes to enjoy until the next season starts! (:
You should definetely check it out :D

Weeeeeeekend!

Yay! It's finally weekend! Or technically, weekend is almost over. But hey, look on the bright side. We have an extra day off of school this monday. Time for a little party! Oh wait, not really. School has been really tough this year. And I'm probably not gonna pass this year, so maybe I'll have to re-do this school year. How depressing is that.. I once said I'd rather die dan re-do the school year. Well, that's of course not the case and I didn't mean it, but it kind of shows you how much I hate school and how depressed I would be if I wouldn't pass. I would be destroyed, literally.
But I'm gonna do as much as I can to pass! I just HAVE TO. No mather what it takes.
Well, now that we've had that. time for some other stuff.

Monday me and some of my friends are having a BBQ. Even though it's gonna rain, but that doens't matter haha. We'll think of something to stay dry. Just went shopping for some groceries and I think we've got all we need. So I'm really looking forward to that!

And I am trying to blog as much as I can, even though I don't really have the time. But I think it is very important for me to keep practicing English as much as I can, since my CAE (Cambridge Advanced English) exams are coming up! On Wednesday June 12 is the written part of the exam (the entire day!) and on Saturday the 22th I have my speaking part. Very nervous.. I have to get at least a C in order to pass the exam. And blogging (and reading english fiction books) are a perfect excuse to practise. (:

Inspirational Quote #6

Inspirational quote #6. Life is all about trying new things, stepping out of your comfort zone, and doing what you love. That is something I really should do more often.

Just a lovely picture I wanted to share.

Spring, where did you go?

Ugh. And the rain is back again here in Holland. How great. It's been raining almost non stop the past couple of days. And it's been cold too! Just rain; fine with me, but it is the cold that's killing me. Last week we were tricked into believing spring was finally coming up. Too bad...

Well, the weather may be terrible when you have to bike to school every day, but when it's late at night and you have a warm cup of tea and a good book, it's lovely. So that's what I'm about to do now! Just grabbing a new book (probably gonna read The Fault in Our Stars or Looking for Alaska) and making a hot cup of cherry tea. Have a lovely evening!

New Layout... again

 

As you may have noticed, I changed my layout again. What do you think? You like? (:
It is very basic and the only colours I used are black, white and purple. I am not a very consistent person when it comes to layouts. At first I will really like them, but eventually they get bored to me. Hopefully this one will be around for a while (:

Quokka

As usually I spend way too much of my time on the internet yesterday. And then I stumbled upon this:  a quokka. This small little creature is only to be found in western Australia. This is what Wikipedia says about it:

The quokka /ˈkwɒkə/ (Setonix brachyurus), the only member of the genus Setonix, is a small macropod about the size of a domestic cat^. Like other marsupials in the macropod family (such as the kangaroos and wallabies), the quokka is herbivorous and mainly nocturnal. It can be found on some smaller islands off the coast of Western Australia, in particular on Rottnest Island just off Perth and Bald Island near Albany. A small mainland colony exists in the protected area of Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve, where they co-exist with Gilbert's potoroo.

HOW CUTE IS THIS CREATURE?! This is probably the happiest thing on the planet. It just looks so happy. How cute! I can't stop looking at it. From now on, whenever I'm sad, I'll just look at these pictures and be instantly happy again. (: 
Some more pictures:

 

Mother's Day

I know, I'm a bit late. But still, happy mother's day. I hope you spoiled your mom a bit more than usual yesterday (:

My mom is the best and I love her so much and I am so grateful that I have her in my life, and it's good to remember those things every once in a while. Of course mother's day is mostly commercial, but the idea of thinking about how amazing your mom is and all the things she does for you, is very good in my opinion.

Anyways, that's all I wanted to say. So remember to give your mom a big hug every once in a while!

30 Day Shred

Wow. Last night I started the 30 Day Shred by Jillian Michaels. And let me tell you, it is tough.. Very tough. But I did it! Or at least, I did it once. Now the trick is to keep it up for 29 more days. Kind of proud of myself, even though I haven't done much yet. I thought I was completely out of shape, but turns out I am not as bad as I thought I would be haha.

If you don't know what 30DS is, I'll try to explain. It basically is a workout programme you follow for 30 days, in order to burn fat and build muscle. You have to do a 30 minute workout every day. There are 3 levels: 1, 2 and 3. The first 10 days of your shred you do level 1, the next 10 you do level 2 and the last 10 days of your work out programma you do level 3.

Wanna check the 30 Day Shred out?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pc-NizMgg8

Something came up

Remember when I said yesterday that I was gonna watch Intouchables with two of my friends? Well.. we ended up not watching it. Something came up, as usual. So that's too bad. Maybe another time haha, whenever that will be.

The weather has been so lovely! Last week when I was in London the weather was amazing, with lots of sun but in the Netherlands it had been a bit cold. And you need to keep in mind that in about 1 or 2 months of time we've had sun, snow, rain, heavy wind, clouds and much more! It seems like the weather doesnt know what she wants (: But the time is finally there! SUN! The weather man said on the tv yesterday that the temperatures will come above 20 degrees Celsius! Yay! Time to pull my short sleeve shirts out of the back of my closet!

I'm off! Going outside and taking a book with me! I am currently reading Percy Jackson & the Olympians.

Remembrance Day

Today, May 4th It is Remembrance Day in the Netherlands. Today we remember the ones who fell for our country during the second World War. (1940-1945 for the Netherlands). Tonight at 8PM the entire country will be silent for 2 minutes and think about all those people who gave their lives for our country. On television you normally see Queen (now princess) Beatrix and (now king) Willem Alexander on De Dam in Amsterdam where they lay a bouquet of flowers. It is now 7:35PM, and I don't know exactly how it will go this year, but soon we'll see how it goes (:

I am making this little extra blogpost in honor of Remembrance Day, and all of those who fell during the Second World War.

Intouchables

Today I am going to watch Intouchables (you know, that funny French movie everybody's Always talking about) with two of my friends! We planned on doing this about 6 months ago, but since all of us constantly either have to work or other stuff to do, we didn't. UNTIL NOW. *dun dun dun*

While I'm writing this I am wearing my oversized supercozy and comfy Union Jack sweater (: At first I wanted to buy a 'I <3 LONDON' sweater, but those were very expensive and I figured this one was also very nice and I can also dress it up. I'll post a pic of it later this week!

So yeah, those are my plans for today. And doing a bit of homework, since school starts again this monday. And that was my very short blogpost. Until next time!

Awkward.

Here I am, sitting in a dark room (because I am too lazy to turn on the light) trying to write a blogpost. Yes, it is one of those moments when you have seriously nothing to talk about. Or you have so much on your mind but don't know what to say or how to say it. So why not talk nonsense? (:
A couple of my friends really like the tv series Awkward. It airs on MTV and season 3 started a couple weeks ago. And since she talks about this show ALL the time I figured I watch a couple episodes, and it is quite entertaining actually! Today I did nothing, except watching a bout 6 episodes of it haha. Laaaaazy day. I have so much homework and other stuff to do, but I just can't put myself to it. Procrastinating like a pro. My Cambridge Advanced English exam is coming up and I really need to start practising. I'll start tomorrow, I promise! ^^

Back Home

So the day before yesterday (Tuesday) was my final day in London.. I was so sad to leave. London is an AMAZING city. It is so full of life (duh, but you know what I mean), it's crowded, beautiful, traditional, modern, alternative, everything you can imagine. I enjoyed every bit of it. Taking the tube, walking down Oxford Street, strawling through the Victoria & Albert museum, looking at super expensive clothes in Harrods, crossing Abbey Road, lying in Hyde Park and enjoying the sun, that one cute mexican restaurant, and the lovely dinners I had with my mum. Just everyting.

Anyways. Too make a long story short. I had the most amazing time there, and I absolutely love it there. Can't wait to come back one day. Today I am cleaning up the last things and the things I bought there (I went shopping haha, and bought a lot of books :D )
Now I'm gonna put all of the pictures I took on the computer and upload them on my flickr. (:

Talk to you soon! And expect some pretty pictures on my blog soon.

PS: de picture above is a photo I took during the change of the guards at Buckingham Palace.

Inspirational Quote #5

 

I think this one says it all (: