Already 1/4 of the way through the Uni semester, even more craziness. I'm not even thinking about any assignments yet and I only just bought one of my books last week! (And I don't even think one of the readers for another subject is even available in the bookshop yet. Haha!) Not really enjoying a couple of my subjects so far, but hopefully they get better. I have actually been going out quite a bit recently, lots of birthdays and all that. But I never get round to taking outfit photos, especially because they're all at night. Sigh.
This is an outfit from over a month ago. Dan and I went to the DFO (Direct factory outlet) at South Wharf. I actually really enjoyed it there! There were heaps of sales on! :)
Dan said I looked French with the beret and striped top, but also like an elf with the green skirt and lace leggings :P This skirt is actually one of the few green things I own. Glassons striped top, H&M skirt via ebay, Sunny Girl lace leggings, Dangerfield over the knee socks, thrifted Novo black flats, thrifted gold bow brooch, and Dan bought me the white beret from a flea market in Krakow, Poland when we were there in January :)
Oh by the way I have a lookbook account now... not exactly sure how it works and haven't gotten any hypes yet but we'll see how we go :D
A couple of months ago, on the 24th of June, I became an Australian citizen! Even though I've been living in Australia for 20 years, pretty much my whole life, I never actually got Australian citizenship. This was because I was born in New Zealand so I basically had the same rights and everything! If you've been a reader of my blog since last year you might remember that in order to become an Aus citizen, I had to complete a test which tested my knowledge on Australian history, 'customs,' famous sporting people and so on. After I passed this I had to complete a separate process of filling out forms and sending forms to become a citizen. I sent in all my forms last year but didn't receive a letter until a few months ago, saying that everything had been approved but i'd only become an official citizen after I went to the ceremony on the 24th June.
It was held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (the MCG), and was apparently the largest citizenship ceremony held in Australia ever, with around 3000 people becoming citizens. Dan and I arrived there in the morning to register, and it was horrible, we spent ages squashed up in lines, not knowing which line to wait in because there weren't any signs!! After that, the actual ceremony wasn't for another couple of hours so we just went back into the city and walked around for awhile.On the letter it said you were only allowed to bring 2 guests (who wouldn't be seated with you) so my parents were going to watch me, but when we were actually going into the ceremony they weren't really checking anything.
The actual ceremony was SO boring! All the new citizens were sitting in one section and the guests in another- so they obviously weren't able to take photos of your or anything. The whole thing only when for about 45 minutes. A few important people made speeches and then all the new citizens were asked to stand up together and recite an oath to Australia. We were then supposed to sing the national anthem, and there were a few more speeches... and that was it really! Quite impersonal really! It was absolutely cold and windy, and I was so tired that I kind of fell asleep during the speeches.. kind of embarrassing as there were random people sitting next to me!
I was wearing a white lace bodysuit and bag from Dangerfield, Tokito skirt via ebay, Bardot drape blazer and thrifted white lace tights (very similar but different from the ones I was wearing in my last post, haha!) Took quite a few photos of this outfit but they didn't turn out right :/
Just to finish off... I went bowling quite a while ago. It was fun! I'm pretty crap at bowling though- so many gutter balls! You think that you'd improve as the night went on but for some reason I got wayy lower scores for my second game than my first! I guess i'm not cut out for anything that requires coordination!
Well hope to hear from ya!xoxo
