Ahh finally weekend!

Which meeaaaaaanss.......

Never.

EXAM WEEK IS OVER. My feels:

DUN DUN DUUUUUNNNNN

Oh no, it's here. It's already going on actually haha, just forgot to mention. But what I am talking about is the oh so terrible exam week. BUT! When this week is over, there are only 2 more exam weeks to go, so that's uhh kind of a good thing. I guess.

Nothing you can do about it, huh? So here's a few tips on how you survive your exam week:

1. Drink lots of tea.
2. Try to got to bed early (it's so hard, i know)
3. Relax.
4. It is okay to make mistakes.
5. JUST SURVIVE, it'll be over soon enough.

Okay, back to learning. BYE!

WOOHOO!

Heck yes! I DID it! I read 8 books, I repeat EIGHT BOOKS in October! Wow! That's some sort of accomplishment, isn't it? (:
*pats own shoulder*

Even though I am super duper busy with school, I wanted to read at least one book a week, but since I also read a few small books, I managed to read eight books. Heck yes!

Gotta love reading..

Oh and by the way, I also have a Goodreads profile, if you wanna check it out. If you don't know what a goodreads profile is, that's basically this website (www.goodreads.com) where you can post which books you've read, and when, and what your opinion on that particular book is, and you can fill in polls and such, aaaaaaandd also, you can do a book challenge! I am doing the 50 books challenge, which means you have to try to read 50 books in 2013. I have already read 35 books so far, which means I am currently on 70% :D

Here's the link:

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/21544556-anne

Terrible timing

Well, since I have barely any spare time this upcoming week, and I have an exam week, it seems like the perfect time to start blogging regularly again, don't you think?
Oh man, my timing is so bad. But the thing is, when you have to study you get bored, and even more bored and suddenly you find yourself doing things that make absolutely no sense, or things you should do another time, WHEN YOU GOT THE TIME!

Ghehe. Guilty. So guilty. But I can't help it! I can't wait to finish school. Meh. Just hang in there for 7 more months. Or something like that. When are the exams again? I believer somewhere in May, here in The Netherlands. Terrifying. It really is. But until that time, let's just try to survive school, and read a few more books. Yay.

Current Pool Reads

When the weather is so hot everyday, I pretty much hang out by the pool all day. And what's better than reading a good book while you're laying at the pool.

At the moment I'm reading two books. 

1. Travels With Charlie: In Search of America - John Steinbeck

2. What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank - Nathan Englander

Travels with Charlie is like the perfect book for me. Ever since I was 10 years old I've dreamt of studying and living in America. It may be naive but that's my biggest dream. There's just something about the USA that appeals to me. I often feel like I was born in the wrong country...

This book describes how John Steinback rediscovers his country and I really love the book so far.

(And yes, the book on the picture is the Dutch version ^^)

And the second book: what we talk about when we talk about anne frank. Which, first of all, has an amazing name if you ask me. But there are way too many capitals in the title if you have to type this on a phone (;

The book contains a few short stories which are all in a way connected to Anne Frank, World War 2 and Israel. Maybe a bit odd to read this when you're hanging by the pool but it's quite easy to read and the stories are very interesting.

One more test

 

Allright guys, I'm almost back! One more test to go! And then, finally, SUMMER BREAK! Yay! So excited! Hopefully I'll pass this year and next school year will be my senior year. That's supposed to be the best year of your life, right? Well, we'll see about that

Just wanted to let you know that there will be regular blogposts very soon!

It's a Monday

Can't wait for MU to come out in The Netherlands! :D

Peter Pan!

 

In a very Disney mood today! Randomly decided to watch Peter Pan, such a good movie (:

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.

Inspirational Quote #7

Define yourself.

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.