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Hola guapas!

  

So I haven't blogged for a really long time 

Apart from my amazing birthday in Paris I have been living  the most boring life known to man! All I've been doing is working and I am soooo bored at the moment.But hey I have one more month of dullness and then 3 months of SUMMER! I cannot wait! Seeing my friends, drinking cocktails, chillin at the beach with my boyfriend... ahhh so many things to look forward to! Not to mention summer clothes!!!:]

  

Ok lets talk about Paris.....

So we got there on Friday afternoon and we went to the hotel to explore and chill for a bit. That night we rode the lift thingy up to the Sacré-Coeur, had dinner and then looked around. I was so tired because it's a near 3 hour journey just to get to Madrid airport from where I live and then with the plane journey on top I was cream crackered! So we headed home pretty early to sleep.

Saturday morning we woke up (late) and did a spot of shopping, where I bought my outfit for the day. Then in a rush we got back to the hotel and then rushed back out to the Ritz for lunch! We missed our reservation because I took so long to get ready but it was ok because we ate in the bar rather than the main restaurant (it was the Ritz none the less).
 

                                                           
Also Saturday afternoon André gave me my birthday present (as if taking me to Paris wasn't enough!). It was a beautiful black diamond ring that he had made from a diamond that he has had for years! It's absolutely stunning! By far the most beautiful present I have ever received!

Saturday night we headed to the Eiffel Tour for dinner. It was amazing! The food was absolutely perfect, I even got a little birthday cake :] It was a perfect night and a perfect way to see in my birthday!!

I am aware I look like a gremlin

<3

Sunday morning I woke up and it was my birthday! I was finally 21! I was soooo excited because I would be spending the day in Disneyland! :] ......

#o#MG Disneyland was fantastic, it wasn't that busy so there were hardly any  queues. I think we must have gone on space mountain at least 5 times, one after another!

I had a perfect birthday!

Then two weeks later I went to England for a weekend to see my family and have a birthday re-enactment! That was really nice as I have really missed my family being away for so long! And I got some lovely presents too.

So that was my birthday, the only excitement I've had in months!As I've said, I have been living a super boring life and working like I a crazy woman, but it all ends soon and I cannot wait to have a life again! I haven't been to a club since February! WTF! I feel like a Grandma! I can't wait to get my life back!
 
This weekend I'm off to Marrakesh so I'll have lots to share next week :]



Lots of love xxx

Little life update

Hola!

 

So I am now on my second part of my year abroad. I'm chillin in Castilla la Mancha (Spain) in a little village. Ok so the village is a bit quiet, not much to do at all.



Windmills is pretty much all this village has to offer

So before I start here are a few pics from a weekend I spent in Madrid with the boyf.

Best lunch ever @ Spott

Walking through Retiro park with Harriet

RIP blackberry :( (it got stolen the w/e after



I'm working as a language assistant at a high school and I'm loving it! My students are soooooo frickin cute! I teach 12-18 year olds and the occasional teacher. I love teaching at the school but the town is a bit blah! It's gorgeous and people are friendly but I miss my friends & boyfriend. Luckily my uni housemate is living in Madrid doing the same thing as me so at the weekends I have been going up to see her. Without her my life would be sooo boring! Thankfully my boyf is coming this week and then I'll be going back to Porto for the weekend and then from then on I'm going back and forth between Porto, Spain and England every weekend until may!

I have to tell you something really exciting! (all 15 of you ha) At the end of the month it's my birthday and I'm going to be 21 :] (This isn't even the exciting bit)...

So I was looking at Sophie's thelittlestthings.com blog and her pictures from her trip to Paris and it really made me want to go, so I hinted to my amazinggg boyfriend that I wanted to spend my birthday in Paris and he has booked an amazing parisienne adventure, filled with amazing lunches and dinners, and a trip to Disneyland! :]

I am soooooo excited! I haven't been to France since I was like... 8 and the last time I went to Disney Land was when I was 6 and my parents lost me for about an hour! I think that experience alone mentally prepared me for my year abroad (14 years later).

Now let me talk about my woe...

So I'm on a no heat diet. Meaning no hair straighteners or curling wands. My hair is in the worst condition and is super thin and know its from excessive heat! So i've decided to not straighten my hair until I go to Paris. Now I know I'm living in a small village where noone cares what they look like, but I care! This is soo hard and I am not loving it! But I'm hoping to have lucious locks for my return to Portugal in the summer! So It has to be done!

Does anyone have any tips on how to get my hair back on its A game?

Love you long time xxx

Wining and dining

Hola a todos!

Last weekend my big brother came to visit me in Porto. Here's some pictures of the weekend.

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love you long time xxx

Cinemagic

I just watched Black Swan and I absolutely loved it! 

Now i've heard so much hype about the film recently and I was worried that I wasn't gonna get it, or think it's as good as everyone keeps shouting about... but it definately is! I want to watch it again :]

Natalie Portman is amazing! So was Mila Kunis (who I've loved since seeing her on That 70's show like a million years ago, did you know she was 14 when she started on the show!?). I would advise everyone to go see it!

Another film I saw recently was the Tourist, now it definately isn't as good as Black Swan but it still isn't as bad as people say it is. Ok so I was ill and drugged up on anti-biotics when I went to see it, but still I thought it was a really good film. Perhaps it was the costumes that did it for me? Angelina looked absolutely stunning in every scene! Although she's a bit too skinny for my liking, the dresses she was put in were beautiful!

We went to EL Corte Ingles today and saw the most adorable puppy I have ever seen! I am not a huge animal lover, but this dog just wanted to be taken home. He was in the kennel with two others but was just chillin on his own, he looked so sad but when we came over he perked up and definately wanted to be mine! Unfortunately I can't buy a dog until I graduate in summer 2012 because I will be travelling between Spain, Portugal and England until then. :[ sad times! But at least now I want a Miniture Yorkshire Terrior, my sister-in-law has a long haired one and I don't think they are half as cute as the short haired beaut that I saw today, in fact I find the long haired ones to be quite annoying and prissy (no offence to those of you with long haired terriors).

Another exciting thing in my life right now is the fact that André and I just bought a new camera, it is absolutely beautiful and I cannot wait until I'm allowed to use it (he's been hogging it all day and night). We bought the Canon 550D, it's so big and professional looking, i'm actually a little bit scared of it lol! I hope I can actually use it properly otherwise it will be very embarrassing, I think I better have a look at the user manual before I start thinking I'm a photographer eh?

Does anyone have the Canon 550D? What do you think of it?

Love you long time xxx