Sucker Punch

BEST SOUNDTRACK EVER! Every song they used was amazing and I have to say the make up and costumes were perfect, I'd love to have a Sucker punch makeover to see what I'd look like!
Emily Browning is SO gorgeous and I love how all the characters looked. I don't know how I feel about the story line though and the ending totally threw me! I had no idea what actually happened but I liked all the fighting scenes and thought it was so well made :D
Anyway, the point of this is to put on a song from the film which I'm totally in love with, it's a cover of the Pixies' 'Where is my mind' sung by Yoav and Emily Browning. I love the original but this is so beautiful too :)  I can't stop listening to it.

Argh, I love the French language, so beautiful

New aims:


1. Save up 3000 PLN (around £666) so I can go on a road-trip with Pawel and his best friend Piotrek to Croatia in the summer :D I need to get a job asap
2. Get fit for beachy times! Going well so far :)
3. Find the biggest, best hat for my friends wedding in May :D
4. Make a list of amazing fun things to do when Katie and Bethan come here in March/April (hopefully)
5. Finish Celta! (yessssssssssssss)
6. Look into a job teaching children - I think I will be much better suited to it, what with all the colours and games and creative lesson ideas
7. Start to drive in Warsaw! - I'm a bit hesitant to start because it's soooo scary driving here

I've been living in Poland for just over half a year now!

The time has gone relatively quickly. I only have another 5 weeks at my teaching course (which I can't wait to finish) and I'm still enjoying my Polish lessons although they are really hard. My sister is coming over for a week tomorrow with her boyfriend, I can't wait to see her, it's been two months since I last saw her and I can't wait for a catch up. Last time she came I had to rely on Pawel to show her around as I was still new there and didn't know my way around or how to buy travel tickets etc.. so this time I will be able to take them out whilst Pawel is working. 


Hopefully we'll go to this pool I've been dying to go to since I found out about it.

It's pretty expensive but I think it would be amaaaazing to overlook Warsaw whilst swimming :D
I'm trying to get fit for the summer and we've been swimming a lot recently, I love it!
Pawel got me a beautiful necklace for our 2 years anniversary, he drew it out himself then got it made and I'm wearing it everyday now! Wait, I'll show you:

<3 I love it!
He also bought me a really soft white rabbit toy from the oldest toy shop in Warsaw and he recorded his voice in its tummy, so when you squeeze it, it has Pawel's voice saying 'yeah I know' (from little Britain) which he is  unfortunately obsessed with! So cute =)
Oh yeaaaah my dairy allergy seems to have vanished for now which I am SERIOUSLY happy about! Although I'm still drinking Soya milk as I'm not brave enough to drink cow's milk yet, but chocolate has never tasted so good :D
Yesterday Pawel and his dad hung our t.v on some wires so it's like a mini cinema! It's so cool! Here's a picture of it:

:)

My new dress!

Pawel made me a dress for Christmas which I absolutely adore :D It fits me perfectly and I plan to wear it when we go out for our 2 years anniversary on Sat :)
We still don't know what we are doing for it (although I'm at my teaching course till 6pm and Pawel is working until that time too), but 6pm onwards is going to be AWESOME!
I also need to find him a present. I have a few ideas but all are really expensive or are unavailable in Poland! I need to get thinking... I have 5 days to come up with something.
Here's a pic of the dress he made:

  Ah, I love it soooo much :)

Another thing I recently got was the YSL ring I blogged about last year! I couldn't believe it as I unwrapped it, one of the best presents I've EVER gotten although unfortunately it was a tiiiiny size so I have to go and get it resized to fit and then I'm seriously going to wear it everyday forever :D

...beauuuutiful <3

Honey, I'm home!

It's so good to be home for Christmas :)
I was so lucky to get a flight home, as I was waiting for my plane almost every other flight around me was cancelled. I got home with only a 2 hour delay to greet my parents at the airport with tears of happiness :D
Although my house is beyond FREEZING (although we've just had a log fire installed into my room - SO cosy)
it's so GREAT to spend time with my sisters (my best friends) parents and friends :D
I've decided to make Pawels present, its going to take a while but I think its cute to have something with sentimental value! <3
Im even going to church in the morning with Lily, Lyds and my grandma! We always sit in the back row and giggle the whole way through :)
Im so excited for tomorrow, I havent seen my grandparents for 5 months, Im meeting friends for drinks on boxing day and pawels coming over a week tommorrow! I miss him so much already and it's only been 3 days! Aw!

Merry Christmas!

Album I'm listening to at the moment:

LOUD - Rihanna

I really LOVE this!

I find I have it on constantly on my tram journeys to and from Polish lessons and shopping trips.

There's only one song on it I don't like (cheers) but seriously, every song is so catchy and feel-good. Awesome :D

Best songs:

♥Fading

♥Complicated

♥Raining men (Nicki Minaj is so cool!)

♥Only girl

♥Love the way you lie (Part 2)

general update.

I have been in Warsaw for four months now! 
It's gone pretty quick and I'm going home in 11 days for Christmas :D Im really excited to see all my friends and my family for two weeks :) Pawel is coming over from the 1st (probably very hung over) until the 6th and we're getting the same flight back.
My teaching course is going really well. Everyone on the course is really nice and I've found another British girl there, which is great :D Teaching is getting less and less nerve wrecking but I'm not the type to get really nervous about standing in front of people.
My first 3 months of Polish lessons are coming to an end, we only have three lessons left and we have decided to end them in style by going straight from our lesson to the bar (at 11 am!) so... we'll see how that plays out! 
I have been really undecided about whether or not I want to continue onto the next trimester of lessons, as I found the first trimester REALLY hard. I can't believe how hard Polish is. Over the years I have taken Welsh, English, French, Spanish and Italian and Polish is hands down the most difficult. A million times. It's just SO different from English in every way possible. But there's no rush to learn it. I've started to be able pick up on conversations and get the gist of what's going on, which is really useful. 
I have made two great friends on the Polish course, although my friend from Korea is going back home after Christmas :(
Even though it's only been four months, I can feel myself changing and growing more independent and aware of myself, which can only be a positive thing. 
Pawel is doing really well in his fashion course. He came home yesterday with two tickets to his mentors (who is quite famous in Poland) fashion show on Tuesday and I'm going with him :D Exciting!
It's still snowing here. The snow is so much heavier than it is in Britain, I feel like I have been living at a ski resort for the past two weeks! I have to dress in about  a hundred layers to just step outside. It's pretty impossible to wake up at 6:30 am these days, as its pitch black outside and SO cold! I do love the snow though.
 I remember the days at high school where, if there was the slightest whisper of the word 'snow,' everyone would be sent home. I thought it was crazy to see the school children heading off to school with the snow over their knee caps! 
I am ashamed to say the first two things I noticed once I was in Poland were:
* Where are all the fat people? ( Hardly anyone here is fat!)
* I can't believe people work so hard for everything.


Other changes to me since Poland:
* Tea with NO milk or sugar (hardcore!)
* Black coffee (or gingerbread latte, unfortunately with soya milk!)
* No hesitation to hop on trams, metros, buses or trains alone without being 100% sure where I'm going or if its even the right tram/bus etc.
* My fashion style
* My independence