Life Changes

Hello lovelies!

Ok so it's quite a different post today as I thought I'd try out doing a little 'life update' post. As thousands upon thousands of Irish secondary students will know in June 2013 I sat the Irish Leaving Certificate, an exam that has the potential to map out the rest of your life for you. These exams area seriously stressful and can really take it out of the best of people. Fortunately I survived the ordeal and moved on with my summer filling it with travel and friends in a futile attempt to forget that in a few weeks time I would get my results....

Wednesday August 14th came around like a lightening bolt and all of a sudden I found myself driving up to my old school to collect my fate, wrapped up tight and served in a brown envelop with a side of anxiety.



In my opinion grades and results are not the most important things in the world and my approach to the Leaving Cert was very relaxed which is why I didn't think I was going to do well. However I was absolutely over the moon to receive 3 A1's, 3 A2's and a B1 in my exams. That amounts to 595 points out of a possible total of 625 so it was safe to say I was one happy girl.

Getting that amount of points meant that I was offered my first choice of university courses which was Business and French at Trinity College Dublin. I'm not entirely sure if I'll love my course but I'm so excited to get into the university student lifestyle. New friends, new classes, new experiences and tonnes of societies and clubs to get involved in. Yesterday I got my welcome email from Trinity and it got me all excited and ready to start choosing my extra course modules (law, political science or sociology? You tell me?). Freshers week starts September 16th!

On another note as you may have seen last year around this time of year my brother attended his debs which is like an american prom but slightly more formal in that the girls usually wear long flowing dresses and the guys buy corsages. Well, this year it's finally my turn to take a whack at the debs and on Tuesday September 3rd I'll be getting all dolled up to dance the night away with my friends. Here are a few hints as to what I'll be wearing but don't worry I'll be posting up a few photos of the day.

Only about 9 more days to go! My friends have put in so much work and I know it'll be worth it.

Right so if you've lasted this long I'd like to first of all congratulate you for getting through all that and also I'd like to reassure you that I'll be back to the usual posts ASAP. Look out for a university haul coming soon.

Ciara xxx

Beauteous British Fashion Awards

Hello my darlings!

Happy mid-week energy fade! Hope you're all going well and haven't been working too hard. Just in case you're a little bit tired I have a short post for you today. 

Yesterday The British Fashion Council celebrated some of the UK's most influential fashion icons at the British Fashion Awards. And of course the level of style was at total 10 out of 10 as is obligatory when this amount of fashion masterminds come together. 

Lets get the ball rolling with some of the lucky award winners!



Alexa Chung was awarded the over all British Fashion Award and who could argue with that. With all the wonderful Chanel looks this model comes out with it's a definite yes. 



J.W. Anderson won the Emerging Talent Award for the Read-to-Wear category. I'm not surprised seeing how his collaboration with Topshop went down such a treat.



Manolo Blahnik is the winner of the Outstanding Achievement Award.



Jonathan Saunders was awarded the Emerging Talent Award for Menswear. 



Roksanda Ilincic and her Red Carpet Award.



Nicholas Kirkwood won the Accessory Designer Award.



Possibly one of my favourite designers Erdem Moralioglu and his award for the New Establishment. 



The beautiful Cara Delevingne won the well deserved Model Award a big achievement for this charismatic young lady. 



Stella McCartney struck gold with two awards, the Designer Brand Award and the Designer of the Year Award.

Out of all the red carpet fashion I have to say my favourite look was Rita Ora of all people. Perhaps because I love the dusty baby blue tones of the gown and perhaps because it was one of the few garments that wasn't completely black! Maybe the fashion leaders are trying to make black the new black?



Over all the night seemed very splendid and glamorous making me wish I was there to see it all with my own eyes. None the less I can't wait to see who will be the winners next year.

Thanks for reading,
Ciara. 

Sourced from http://www.vogue.co.uk/spy/celebrity-photos/2012/11/27/british-fashion-awards-2012/gallery/887571

Genius Brothers and Smashing Burritos

Howdie!
On Monday or was it Tuesday? I'm not sure but anyway on one of those days it was a very important day for all the Irish students who have left secondary school (that's high school for all you USA readers) and will be going to college in September. It was the day all the Leaving Certificate results came out and those results basically dictate your whole life because they decide whether you go to college or not. The Leaving Cert (LC for short) is the equivalent to the English A Levels or the French Baccalaureate and in Ireland it's based on two years of work in 7 subjects in which you do big exams in at the end of those 2 years.
           To cut this long story short you get given points for each grade you get and you have to get a certain amount of points to get into your college course. The highest amount of points you can get is 625 and my cheeky brother who received his on Mon/Tuesday got 615!!!!! Like what the hell? First my sister gets full marks when she did the LC, now my brother has to do basically that as well. It's not fair on me!
But anyhow I know how you guys don't like too much writing so here are some of the photos I took of the food at our delicious meal at Picadero's.

 Now I know it doesn't look too appetising but this burrito here ^ was amazing! I ate my entire one but my less hard core of a sister brought half of hers home which I ate the next day. A mixture of cheese, beef, peppers, creme cheese, salsa and guacamole that had my mouth watering.

 My veggie Dad's cod choice. I'm not the biggest fan of fish so I didn't try it but I'm sure it was nice.

And my mom tucked into her lamb before I could get a reasonable photo of it. I'm sure that just goes to show how tasty it was.
Sorry guys for the poor photo to word ratio I was a bit too excited by my food to take more photos of the churros I had for dessert, but they were goooooood.
Hopefully I'll do as well as my fellow siblings when I do the Leaving Cert next June. I'll talk to ya'll tomorrow,
Ciara.