LAST DAY OF SCHOOL FOR LIKE…EVER

Hi there,
here I am again.

Yesterday was finally the day that we received our A-Level report cards. That means I’ll never have to go to my old school again. Yay.
But before our official graduation ceremony yesterday we had an unofficial last day at school (which was a few weeks ago on the third of June).

Having a last day is kind of a tradition at our school. The 12th graders plan a day full of chaos and confusion for the teachers and the younger students. We got up at 4 a.m. filled 1000 balloons, taped chairs and desks in the classrooms together to keep them in huge piles on the floor, drew stuff on every blackboard and hung up posters of Justin Bieber, One Direction, The Wanted… in every toilet in the whole school. When the first students arrived and every piece of artwork in the building was covered in Disney posters we were prepared.
The students were greeted with a warm welcome of SuperSoakers and finger paint. After the lessons started and the teachers desperatly tried to untie the chairs and the desks, we went into every classroom and generally annoyed as many teachers and disrupted as many classes as possible.

As school normally is extremely strict and organized this is the only day of the year that we are allowed to make a little bit of a mess.

But despite all of the mess we made and the fun we had this day felt incredibly unreal for me. I’ve been going to this school for the past 5, 6.. no 7 years and even though I didn’t like school that much I am sure going to miss learning something new and the routine of a normal school day. Nevertheless I am going to start university in September and there’ll surely be a new routine quite fast.

See you later (a.k.a. tomorrow),

xx

Lina

P.S.: I’m sorry that I have been away from blogging for so long, but June was a friggin’ busy month. There were thousands of 18th birthdays of friends. I had to work. And most of all I had to make/layout/design the whole f****** yearbook this time. Alone. And it nearly drove me insane.

30 DAY SNAP #17

 

Today the weather was perfect. Again. So went outside and jumped into some Harry Potter nostalgia. I’ve probably read this book for more than 4 times and I still love it and it never gets boring.

xx

Lina

CUT THE CRAP

 

Sometimes you have to make changes in order to feel good again. Because I think sometimes we, mostly young females, let ourselves get too influenced by what males or the media think is good for us, what we should look like, how we should be….

And I think that makes everyone somewhat pretentious. That’s why I decided to get rid off some of the stuff that makes me feel self-conscious or bad or whatever. You catch my drift?

Ok.

1. Last Wednesday I went to the hairdresser to get my hair cut. Not the normal get-rid-off-the-split-ends-cut, but I literally got half of my hair cut off. (My hair went down to the middle of my back now it barely touches my shoulders). People often think of long hair as very sexy or cute, I thought the same for quite a long time, but I got kind of bored and decided I needed a change, so off it was. And there is this boost of confidence that comes with having short hair (at least for me), I know that getting short hair can end horribly wrong, but it’s just hair. It’ll grow again and for the worst cases there’ll always be extensions.

2. In one of my cleaning antics I threw out all of my magazines. Not everyone, but issues like COSMOPOLITAN that always tells you what and how to be etc. and I think getting rid of direct body shaming influence works quite well for me. On one page they say that curves are the new trend and everything else is out. And on the next page they announce the same thing for skinny girls. But they always manage to make a lot of people feel bad about themselves. Why can’t we just accept that everybody looks different and that there’s nothing wrong about that?

into the bin with you lot

3. Tell people to shut the f*** up. If they don’t accept you for who you are, if they are mean to you or always try to change you are NOT your friends, no matter what tehy tell you. If they make you feel down, leave them.

4. Be yourself. You are amazing.

 

I seriously want to know what you do to make yourself feel good.

xx

Lina

30 DAY SNAP #12

Yes I know I skipped a few days, but I simply forgot about this project. 

So here's the last awkward selfie of me with my long hair I am gonna visit the hairdresser now. Bye

Chop chop chop

xx

Lina

FALLING IN LOVE ON THE TRAIN – SATURDAY STORY-TIME

I think that there is one thing we have all done despite all our differences. We’ve fallen in love. But there is a very special way of it. It is called falling in love on the train, the tube, the bus, the whatever wherever.

You are just sitting there (if you are lucky enough to have a seat) casually minding your own business staring holes into the air, reading 50 Shades of Grey, listening to your iPod or pretending to be texting. One moment later you some why look up to notice the most astonishingly beautiful person you have ever seen standing just a few feet away from you. And before you can think: ‘Oh hell, you are incredible’ you will be falling head-over-heels for this unknown stranger. If he is smiling at you this is a plus but not  a necessity. And it will make the blood rush into your cheeks and it will make you look like a complete and utter weirdo. But in that moment it doesn’t matter. This possible Calvin-Klein underwear model is so stunningly beautiful that you contemplate getting off at their stop to find out where he’s headed, but the thought to have a little chat with him and to ask for his number never crosses your mind.

Yet for some reason your hormone-filled brain starts to plan a future with this highly attractive stranger, imagining how your first date would be. But just a few seconds later your thoughts are interrupted by the oh-so familiar rustling of a jacket and a backpack being lifted up from the ground. You look up, the tube doors open and your possible one true love leaves the train. Without you even knowing his name and you’ll be sad for 15 seconds but then you’ll go back to your daily tube routine. Staring holes into the air, reading a book or pretending to text. your day will basically be like the previous ones.

But every once in a while you’ll remember this time you saw the most beautiful person on the tube and how they smiled at you and how you fell in love in mere seconds. And you’ll smile at this memory and how ridiculous it seems to fall in love with a stranger and yet you’ll be filled with a radiant happiness whenever you think of it.

xx

Lina

'ello, 'ello,

after 10 long hours of uploading, my first rather crappy youtube video is finally up....

              (this is an epic thumbnail, isn't it?)

I'm so proud it's officially the first thing to be crossed of my bucket list.

I hope you enjoy it and please tell me what you think about it.
What are you going to do this weekend?

xx

Lina

30 DAY SNAP #4

This is what I've been working on today. It's not finished yet but I like it so far. What about you?

xx 

Lina

30 DAY SNAP #3 THE ROSEGOLD STUDDED FLATS

I bought those lovely flats a few weeks ago at a local boutique an I love them so much. I am normally more of a Vans kinda person but those shoes are extremely comfortable. I have already worn them to a wedding and danced in them all night long. 

Hope you're all well. 

xx

Lina

30 DAY SNAP #2

Me and Koko, the squirrel we've been taking care of the past two weeks. She's just too cute. 

30DAY SNAP #1

Hello peeps,

I am sorry that there's been no Friday fun video yesterday, but due to the constant heavy rain in my area my internet connection is basically non-existing most of the day. I can still upload today's picture with my phone.

Because of the bad weather today, I decided to snuggle up in my maroon American Apparel jumper, some pj pants and the fuzziest socks ever to go on reading 'Lean In' by Sheryl Sandberg. I even. So far I really enjoy this book it is incredibly helpfull. Even my pink glasses are in today's snap. 

I hope you had better weather.  

What were you up to today?

xx

Lina