When Everything Seems To Go Wrong

Do you ever get the feeling that you just have some bad luck? 

Could you imagine having that feeling for an entire week?

Well..I can... *insert sad face*

I just can't imagine why this all had to happen at once. I don't even wanna know when I last uploaded a post, but you'll soon know why. I will tell you what happened this past week. (Beware: long post)  

Monday started off quite well although I still can't get over the early classes at school starting at 8:30 in the morning. I mean no one (not even the teachers like that time). This was our last week of school and so the lecturers gave either tips and/or mock exams for the upcoming tests. It was rainy but the day went on well until I remembered that I had to call my doctor (again!). Little background info: I did a test some time ago and was told that the results would be in in three days or so…Well those days turned into weeks and while that's not really an issue at all (if mentioned from the start), it is when you're constantly on the phone with the assistants and they keep telling you to call back in a few more days.

Anywho...Fast forward to past Monday again...I called them to hear that they couldn't find my results at all, that the lab made a mistake and I had to retake the test. Thumbs up for that one right, cause this kickstarted my terrible week.

Tuesday and Wednesday I was working on some stuff for my exchange of course. I have to for example send a so called study plan which basically means that I have to choose subjects and have to explain why I chose them. Went to the bathroom and when I came back my laptop shut down out of nowhere. I thought there was something wrong with the power adapter (was using this solely as the battery of my laptop died in the beginning of the year). So not a good day to say the least, but hey I was going to get a new adapter the next day so no biggie right?

On to Thursday…had class but was running a little late just to do a mock exam in class (still helpful though). Went to Mediamarkt to buy a new power adapter for my HP laptop (yay another 40 euros disappeared). Came home…well not really as I stood before my door finding out I'd lost my keys (this week couldn't get any better right?). After the initial panic came logic…what did I do exactly and where did I need to go or who did I have to call. I phoned Car2go immediately as I'd used one of their cars in the morning. Unfortunately the specific car I had used was located at the other side of town (great), so in order to get there fast I took another one of their cars and drove there. Can you guess what I'd found?…

Yes, exactly nothing, my keys weren't there and I had just spend more money. I asked my boyfriend if he could go to the final stop of the public transport that I had used earlier in the day. This of course again resulted in nothing. 

Lot of bad luck so far right…Well there is more

Came home that evening crossing my neighbor in the street, telling her about the lost keys and you know what… she saw them laying in the street in the morning but left them there as she thought that the owner would immediately run back. Unfortunately I never noticed it as my bag was way to full that day and the keys probably flicked out of my bag when I swayed it over my shoulder. As is was too late I couldn't ask the other neighbors if they had my keys. So finally tested my new power adapter of course only to find out that it wasn't working…my computer still couldn't be turned on. Great…just great...slight panic attack, maybe I did something wrong, I should try it again in the morning was what I was thinking as I was very sleepy. Oh and did I already mention that I had a deadline for a certain subject? (at friday evening…but still)

Friday morning came... couldn't go to school due to losing my keys in the neighborhood and my mom freaking out about potential burglars. Tried to start my laptop again…failed once more. Googled to see if I could find a solution for my problem, didn't work so I called HP. After a numerous amount of minutes where I explained the problems and I had to test it, they came up with a diagnose. Drumroll…it was the motherboard and they didn't have the one for my model anymore. Only thing they could do was offer me a reduction on a new computer

*insert panic attack and sadness now* 

Why so many things all at once…I  work so hard and this is what I get? Now you see I luckily was able to get a new computer on black friday and was allowed to return and get a full refund on the power adapter that I bought earlier. The hard drives of my deceased laptop were saved but I will have to see how an external hard drive works.

To top it all off…I overslept this morning, first time in at least one and a half years. I feel like I should deserve a lot of positivity (and some money) after all of this and I should pass all of my exams as well (LOL and crying)

Have you ever had a lot of bad luck at the same time? How did you cope with it?

Xoxo WyoniAlyssa 

I'M GOING TO....

Hello everyone as some of you know I'm doing an international study of which an exchange semester is mandatory in the third year. Let me explain what this means...students must study abroad for a few months. In order to go one must participate in one of the two offered ranking procedures, so in February or in September. The school calculates your score by multiplying your grades with their assigned ECTS scores. I hope you get an idea of how this works. Unfortunately there weren't many places left, with some you had to speak a certain language and others weren't suited for my study program.

Well I for one participated this month and choose Mexico and France ,to improve either my Spanish or my French, and England because it was close by and you can never have to much English right. We were told that we would get our results mid October, but today I received a mail. Being that next month hasn't even started yet I started panicking, thinking about how I might have had to rank again due to the low amount of places. Maybe other people had a higher ranking score and chose the same places as me and therefore those were given to them. 

But no it was the real deal, because the email started with congratulations, you've been ranked. I quickly scrolled down in the document looking for my student number (which seemed like forever) and there it was...

Mexico!! 

I'm going to Mexico, it feels so surreal. Have to start planning everything now as it's not even close to home at all. Will have to look at all the details such at when my new school will start and when I will return of course. I have to look for housing, my flight and of course vaccinations. 

I'm a bit scared as I've never been away from home that long and by myself, but I'm also happy and really curious where all of my classmates are going.

Have you ever been abroad for work or school? How was that experience for you?

Xoxo WyoniAlyssa

NEW LOOK

So I was kinda bored with being sick at home and not really being able to do anything. I decided to change my background template to this current version and it really took a few hours. I had no idea I could change so many details. When I started this blog I didn't want to spent too much time choosing my background (I know bad right?). I just chose this aery coral-blue background with flowers (I think) and never really looked at it again.

The message I kept hearing though was that my previous template was too distracting from my pictures so this time I chose a more relaxed background. I don't think I will change it that much now, but you never know right. It's still not exactly the way I want it, but it will do for now. 

I hope you guys like my new template as I do. In case you did prefer the old background, I kept that one for my mobile version.

Xoxo WyoniAlyssa

Survived My Exams

Yay I survived the two exam weeks...pfff, now waiting until all of my exam results are in. I just don't get why some grades are taking so long, I mean some were made on the computer (multiple choice exams btw) and the results could've been uploaded pretty much immediately.

But...it didn't. My classmates and I have been waiting for those results for around 1 week now which is ridiculous. Especially when you consider that we were expected to enroll for resits today already. School now decided to postpone the enrollment deadline till after the review day this upcoming Thursday.

Yay right...NOT as I'm sure that some results will still not be in by then.

Anywho...Today I finally *dusted my (hair) ends again after 6 months or so. I just totally forgot how long it has been and although my ends seemed fine I didn't want to create any chances for split ends to develop or get worse. Luckily I still remain at bra strap length hair after my dusting. 

*I think that probably everyone knows what a hair trim is and are probably wondering why I'm talking about dusting. I consider cutting hair a trim when one cuts of more than an inch (=2,5cm) of hair and a dust whenever this cut is less than an inch.   

Some of you know that I have chemically straightened my hair last week and because this process is damaging I wanted to try a hard protein treatment one week after to strengthen my hair again. So today I bought such a treatment which I will be using tomorrow on my wash day.

The product that I got is from the brand Aphogee and is called the Two-Step Protein Treatment, which needs to be followed up with the Balancing Moisturizer. I can't wait to try this tomorrow and will tell you how it went.

How did you spend your day?

Xoxo WyoniAlyssa

New Face of ...

So today my class did Jeu de Boule, I had never played this game before. It's basically a competition between two teams about whose balls are closer to this smaller red ball (uhm yeah). The weather wasn't that great as well and for a moment we had to quit playing because of the rain. Even though it was fun, I do not have to play it again.

Anyway there is this competition at one of the perfumery shops to become their new Beauty Star. At first I didn't want to go and suddenly I thought why not.

How it works:
You need to visit the stores on one of the so called casting days where they would do your makeup first and afterwards take some pictures. Afterwards you also had the opportunity to buy your own pictures, but they used the first 4 for the competition anyway. Let's hope I win (fingers crossed).

I didn't like all of them and decided to just buy these two pictures.

Close-up on the eyes

Unfortunately I can't tell you what make-up I have on exactly though since the make-up artist applied some more on top of my basic look.

After the photo shoot I passed the Lush store and picked up some samples as well. I can't wait to try them.

What have you been up to today?

Xoxo Wyoni

Fire Evacuation Drill

Let me start by saying that I have never experienced a fire drill in my first year at this school. However today was the day.

I just have two hours of French class on Wednesday mornings and during the first hour the alarm went off. Even my teacher stared at us not knowing if it was a drill or the real deal.

So of course we all went outside the room to notice that our two nearest exits were closed off, luckily the one near the main hallway could be opened. Nobody was panicking , some classes even remained seated (strange huh? What if it was real?).

The road towards the main fire emergency exit took way too long in my opinion. Half of the people would've died already if this would have been real. It appeared way too chaotic to me and I clearly understand why these drills are needed. The organization needs to improve big time if they want people to leave the building as quickly and safely as possible.

How is the evacuation drill at your school or company organized? Do you think there is room for improvement?

Xoxo Wyoni