Cupcakes and Canada!

WARNING: lots of cake and other sugary sweetness was involved in the making of this post.

Hello again! Yet another update from yours truly. These will mainly be pictures of my first (and last, more about that later) few days in Baltimore... The first week of classes was quite... intense. It was really different from what I'm used to. Lots of strict rules and expensive supplies that you MUST buy.

View from one of the classrooms...

And the view from our little kitchen...

My birthday (January 24th) just kinda... went by. I don't even feel 22 now haha! Despite all the birthday wishes and sweet presents from my friend it was pretty much just another day. This was my birthday cake: a very, very dry and overly sweet chocolate cake from the school cafeteria :P

The next day we went over to Target for some shopping.Valentine's Day products are EVERYWHERE right now and it's all so cute! Loving all the lovey dovey themed baked goods!

Spongebob was creeping... hehe

Talking about Valentine's Day sweets... I forgot to share these pictures I took in Canada! So much Valentine's Day themed candy! SUGAR!!

Back to Baltimore... There was a cupcake shop called oooh So Sweet which we definitely wanted to pay a visit! How cute does this look? All that pink! All those cupcakes!

We decided on a Pink Velvet and Pink Coconut cupcake! They were really good and, obviously, very sweet. Sometimes you have to indulge ;)

And then I was back at the airport. What!? Yes. I tried staying in Baltimore for two weeks, but despite all the sweet people and cupcakes and everything, I just wasn't happy and my heart wasn't in it at all anymore. I just felt like it would be a waste of time and money staying there.

So I decided to go back to Toronto to be with my boyfriend and start our life together. We'll have to take care of a lot of things, and it's going to take time, but I'm planning on staying here and eventually go back to art school here. Things happen and plans change :) It definitely feels like home here and I don't want to be anywhere else right now ♥

Stuff that's been going on!

Seeing Alkaline Trio live

Appropiate nail art + loving my new shirt!

It's still all a little unreal to me. I still can't believe that I've been that close to them, seen them with my very own eyes. Also: Matt Skiba is hilarious. I don't know. I just love everything about him. The way he talked about and impersonated the waving bear video, how he talked about how people who read are awesome and recommended us to read this book (on which the song 'The Torture Doctor' is based). His Twitter is awesome too. Maybe this sounds weird, but seeing them live just made me feel that much closer to them. It was such a small and cozy venue and everything was very laid back and fun. It could've been a bit more energetic, but hey, I'm not complaning. Happy times.

Going to Lowlands

Picture on the right by Fleur Bult for Olympus

I have just returned from this music festival called Lowlands and it was amazing. It pushed me out of my comfort zone very very much, which turned out to be exactly what I needed. Not only the live music/performances/iced teas were amazing, but also the entire atmosphere and hanging out with people my own age. That last thing has been lacking from my life for quite some time and I'm having a hard time getting back into the swing of things, but I felt like this helped a lot. I'm not quite there yet, but it's something.

Back to school
The only reason I am kind of excited for school to start again in about two weeks is because I can start taking the first steps with working on my exchange with MICA in Baltimore. I've been dreaming of this for ages (well, three years.) and I really hope I can make it happen. I get butterflies in my stomach just thinking about it.

Orange Is The New Black
So hooked on this show! Like so many other people. All I can say is: go watch it. Because I'm hopeless when it comes to describe why I like something a lot.

The story of Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), a woman in her thirties who is sentenced to 15 months in prison after she is convicted of a decade old crime of transporting money for her drug dealing girlfriend (Laura Prepon).

I'm going to try and start blogging more frequently again. I have nothing planned for my last two weeks of summer. I have yet to visit the cat museum in Amsterdam, have a Hello Kitty high tea, visit the only lolita store here in my country and finish watching Orange is the new Black, but that's about it. I hope I can do those things before my holiday is over! Anyone want to join me? 

Hope you are having a wonderful week so far!