you can ring my bell

Hello dolls!
School's almost ouuuuut!!!! I can't wait for summer so I can lazily watch movies, read and write as much as I want, be stress free, shop, stay up late, and not have to worry about school or homework. 

Yesterday was my first day interning at a theatre and it was really interesting, I made part of the programs for the upcoming shows so that was cool!
After my internship, I go back to school to write the world's longest report on it then have an oral exam on it as well then
I'm freeeeeeeeeee!!!!

Soon, I'll be volunteering at a music festival, going to a music festival, celebrating Canada Day, and hopefully having an amazing summer! 

nail polish - h&m (it lasted 2 days worth of pool & a whole week before chipping)
ring - urban outfitters 

Saturday was one of my deerest (hi) friends' birthday and he had a dance party and it was absolutely lovely! 
The music was awesome for dancing, especially because there were different genres like disco, punk, rock, techno-ish, latino music, basically everything except pop. 
Plus, there was really good food, an adorable dog and a cute roof-climbing cat. 
My friend Chanelle and I recently discovered the beauty that is a slack line and we're slightly obsessed and there magically was one at the party and I'll let you guess what happened...
(hint: we went on it a lot) 
Also, I got to spend time and dance with some of my best friends and who doesn't like dancing or spending time with their favourite people???

~and now, the moment you've all been waiting for...~

~the clothes~

jacket - a generous gift from my best friend
grey crop top - h&m
black skater skirt - h&m
purple shoes - vans
bloody legs - mine thabks

I may or may not wear this skirt basically 24/7 which is weird because I didn't use to be very fond of skirts, but I guess I got more used to them because of my uniform. And also, once I got this one, I fell in love and now I love skirts!
I'm wearing my purple vans because I knew I was gonna dance around and twirl like a princess, woohoooooo!

choker - thrifted
necklace - somewhere in Korea

I love this outfit because it looks so grungy and I feel like a total badass in it. (It's mostly the jacket to be honest)

back of the jacket

Can we just take a second to admire this jacket.
~swoon~

My best friend Christina very (times infiniti) generously gave me this jacket and I lovelovelovelovelovelovelove it, it's so soft and gorgeous and grungy and reminds me of Asia and i just... *sighs of love*

FUNNY STORY TIME
So, walking from the party down a PITCH BLACK pathway to our car, my mom says "step step" so I repeat "watch the step" to my friends after taking the step and thinking "wow, thank god I knew about it, good thing I told them, now they won't fall unless they don't listen, that would be funny" *evilly laughs on the inside* 
Then I trip on the second step, hit the edge against my legs, fall on the steps and now I have the world's biggest scrape on my leg and two smaller ones on both legs.

This may not sound that painful but it bled like a drop so it was obviously super painful and also the scrape is about (casually just measured it for you) 7 centimeters long and 4 centimeters wide and hurts even when I don't touch it and stings all the time. *dramatically cries*
After everyone made sure I was ok, we're all laughing (them more than me) and my mom says "I said step step, that's what we told Splash (a blind dog we knew)! Step step means two steps, come on Céline!" 
Thanks mom, I'm clumsier and understand less than a blind dog.
Awesome.

Hope my painful story made you smile at least. :)

What are your plans for this summer? What have you been up to lately? Anything painful yet funny happen to you?

Thanks to Valentina for taking these pictures (and actually wanting to) with her super pro camera

Special thanks to Christina for the lovely jacket
Title is a lyric from Ring My Bell by Anita Ward (piewwww)

there's a whole world out there (washington dc)

Hellooooo darlings!

I feel like we're all traveling these days, and since you were all kind enough to share pictures of your trips, I thought I'd share mine too! This is kind of a photo heavy post but I picked my favourite of the gazillion I took so bear with me please. :)

smithsonian

national building museum

Two weeks ago, I went to Washington DC on a class trip and it was amazing and kind of crazy!

The organizer was really... well disorganized so we walked in circles and got lost a lot (even though she was looking at a map. On her phone. Which just by the way was in her hands). Also, the food was mostly salad and burgers but other than that, the trip was full of really cool museums, walking, a lot of monuments, and going from room to room in the hotel. It was delightful to see so much grass and greenery and have it actually smell and feel like spring as opposed to summer 24/7, even if that meant putting my sweater on then taking it off then wearing three sweaters then none again.

national building museum

The really really fun part though was that, when we got to the hotel every night, the teachers would lock themselves up in their rooms and let us run around to each other's rooms, to the gym and anywhere else in the hotel. Some people had a pillow/candy fight the first night and -- don't ask me why -- but someone brought out a cheese grater (???) 

In my room, my friends and I built a fort, had a dance party (loud music, bed jumping and all) and laughed at reality tv shows. We also went to the gym once to play with the machines, got pranked called by the guys a million times, played an intense game of uno which led to a short pillow fight (me attacking my friend and then people throwing pillows at me) and played ding-dong-ditch. 

I know, I know, you're wishing you could be as mature as us! 

(You probably can't, sorry...) 

national building museum

arlington national cemetery

arlington national cemetery

If you go, I really recommend going to:

the Holocaust museum (they have a four floor exhibit so make sure you plan enough time to see most of it), 

the National Museum of American History, 

the Library of Congress (the architecture inside and out is beautiful), 

the Air & Space museum, the White House, the Capitol, 

the National Building Museum (the architecture is beautiful and they had fun activities but the tour was a little boring), 

the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and going on the Ford Theatre Detective McDivitt Investigation tour (an actor plays the detective in charge of Lincoln's assassination and takes you to all the different places where the events happened), 

 and seeing all the monuments during the day and at night.

Have you ever been on a class trip or to DC? What was your favourite trip?

library of congress

mount vernon (george washington's estate)

the white house

the white house

smithsonian american art museum;
the piece is made of lightbulbs, aluminum and other everyday objects

smithsonian american art museum

library of congress

crossroads

I watched the cars drive past as quickly as my future; gone in an instant, driving farther and farther away from my reach. It was scary, really, to see my life and future flashing before my eyes, at a fork in the road, letting the three of us be the judge of which one was the best. Who were we to know anyway? We were just three little measly humans, stuck at a crossroads in our lives, trying to predict the future. I guess now, only time will tell.