School Book Haul

Hi everybody!

Tomorrow I will start not only my fifth year of high school, but I will also be going into my fifth year of bilingual education. The level of English keeps rising, obviously, and now that I have both my FCE- as well as CAE certificates, I'm going to start the IB Programme. This is a school programme originally designed for native speakers, but they provide it at our school anyways.

A lot of literature is involved, and I'm actually very excited about this! As a writer, I'm very keen on learning more and more about how a book is constructed. Foreshadowing, figurative language, double meanings and literary aspects are all things that intrigue me, because I'd love to be capable of using that myself as well. So I'm actually really excited about these books that landed in my mailbox today. :)

Over the course of the IB Programme, which lasts two years, we will be reading and analysing these four books at school:

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

What will you be reading for school this year?

Love you lots,

Eva

Boohoo Shopping Haul

A few days ago I was watching one of Zoella's awesome videos where she did a shopping haul with clothes solely from Boohoo. I looked at her new clothes and got so inspired! So I ventured off to Boohoo.com, a British-International online fashion shop that has lots and lots of clothes with amazing quality and prizes. I ended up buying two dresses, one of which you can also see in Zoella's video :)

The first is a Cap Sleeve Bodycon Midi Dress and costed me only €12. The colour I picked is Charcoal, but it's also available in countless of other styles and/or colours. The fabric is super soft and makes the somewhat-tight dress extremely comfortable. My European size is 36, and the British size 8 fits perfectly for me. I especially love this midi dress because I find it compliments my length and hips and I also get to wear my favourite sandal-wedges underneath it. To quote my mum: "It's a sexy dress, but not in the exposing kind of way." I love that about it. I think it's elegant, sophisticated but also quite sexy. I would definitely recommend this dress to tall girls and/or girls who love to wear heels. I can't wait to stroll about in this dress when spring comes. ✿

The second dress I bought with the intention to wear to the beach or on a chill summer's day. I was right to buy it with this intention, for this Scoop Neck Maxi Dress isn't designed to take long walks in the city in. Although I love the shape of the dress, (tighter round the bum and looser at your feet) it can be quite the task to move around in. I think this will take some getting used to, and that eventually I'll get the hang of it; but for now I'm still scuffing around like a penguin in it. This might also be caused by the new sandals I was wearing underneath it, which, too, require some practice to walk in. This dress cost me €15, which I think is an amazing prize for the quality and fashion that you receive :)

The best part is still to come: Boohoo ships internationally, and free when your order is €25 or up! Free shipping!!! :'D On the website they state that the shipping takes 5-10 workdays, however my package arrived within two! I love everything about Boohoo, and so should you. ♥

I hope you all like my first Shopping Haul, for I expect more of them to come in the future ;)

Love,
Eva