HELLO MOSKVA!

Happy July, and to all my Canadians, happy Canada day!

Well isn't it ironic, I return to Canada on Canada day. I can assure you I will be more than celebrating this country today! I'm incredibly grateful to be living in such a modernized, intelligent and civilized country. I've missed the politeness and modesty of people! I'm not going to mention what I consider to be the shortcomings of Russia (if you want to hear my complaints, this girls got a twitter..) Reflecting back to my time in Russia, I do have to say that I learned a lot while being abroad. I learned to use a gas stove and shower from a bucket!! Im basically a caveman!

Nevertheless I'm currently on a (beautiful & new) train right now to Moscow, where I'll be posting this thanks for the wifi in Coffee House haha.
If all goes according to plan we're going to grab some breakfast there before heading to the airport and getting on a plane to Frankfurt, and then finally Toronto!
Talk to you guys soon!

QUICK GIVEAWAY!

So you may remember I held a contest a week ago on my YouTube channel, but the winner never messaged me back. Seeing as this stuff is a present for you guys, I intend on keeping it that way! That's why I'm giving the contest a second chance!

TO ENTER: leave a number in the comments of this post from 1-100. PLEASE also leave a contact email (that you will intend to check by the end of today to see of you won)!!!

WHO WILL WIN: the first person to correctly guess the number in my mind. OR the closest person by 21:30 Moscow time.

WHAT YOU WILL WIN: a BH cosmetics limited edition party girl palette, a GOSH on stage lipgloss, a
pandora's lips lip gloss, and a surprise gift ;)

The package will be sent out no later than tomorrow, so you'll get it in a week!

Good luck!

BACK TO THE MIDDLE AGES IN GIRONA

Hey everyone!

I’m back in Russia now, and tomorrow I’ll be headed for the train to Voronezh, which is where my mom is originally from. The train takes 22 hours to get there……….. I’m so excited I can’t even contain myself (serious, serious sarcasm there).

Anyways I wanted to share a picture from Girona, a city in Spain that my mom seemed to be in love with, while I, quite honestly think it looks like a dumpster/sewer city ;)

I won’t have internet for the next 5 days or so, so I’ll preplan some posts for you guys and talk to you all soon hopefully when I’m in Moscow, headed back home to Canada.

Pray I don’t have internet withdrawal syndome please!

Bye!

BARCELONA

Greeeetings from my hotel room!

Allow me to share with you all, the magical city of Barcelona. I’ve always heard people talk about how the city gives you an indescribable feeling, although I never understood quite what they meant until I saw it for myself. I don’t mean to sound like I know anything about architecture, because trust me I don’t, but Barcelona’s is briliant. You turn the corner on a random street, and there you’ll find an unusual, artistic building with eyeballs coming out of it. It’s like in school, when there’s that one artsy kid that dresses in rainbow pants and owns it- that’s Barcelona. Although the European charm is still there, the whole city has such a Middle-Eastern feel to it, it almost felt like walking around in the Dubai. I also saw inside an olympic stadium, which I don’t think I’ve ever seen before. We took an organized tour from our hotel in Tossa De Mar there, which I wouldn’t recommend to anyone visiting for the first time because they don’t give you any more than 2 hours to walk around, which is nowhere near enough time. It’s so unfortunate that we didn’t end up staying in Barcelona.. the city is simply amazing and I will 100% return (without my mom hehe). 

Te amo Barcelona!

Shorts and shirt from ZARA

Tourist Sonya haha

Eyeballs coming out of the building! Brilliant! 

You can never go wrong with a selfie!

We had lunch in a cute little Thai restaurant named Bun Bo.

Orange trees growing (for decoration.. but it was still so pretty!)

HENNA FAIL

Kids, don't trust people with henna.
Here's the deal: I wanted a real tattoo but I don't wanna have to ask my mom for permission and have to convince her.
So, I opted for henna! Bad decision.
First of all, the line was done way too thick for my taste and it smudged.
Basically I paid 5 euro to be further convinced I should just get a real tattoo haha but I'll go back tomorrow and try to get it filled in...
Right now were headed for lunch to try gazpacho soup- a so-called "must try" in Spain. (update: we never had it because apparently its cold... I don't think I can roll with that)
Soon I'll let you guys see some Barcelona pictures!
See you soon!

HIKING WITH THE NEON PINK NIKES

Hello!
Last night and also this morning, we found a wonderful “hiking” trail, which basically just means that we walk up the mountains for half an hour and eventually come to find a beautiful view of the entire town and ocean. Here’s a picture from just under an hour ago, when we went hiking. Note: I wore my neon pink Nike free runs. I’ll come to admit I don’t wear them quite as much as I ended to when I bought them haha.

A LITTLE BIT OF TODAY

Good evening!

Here are some pictures to give you an idea of how the day was spent, before I make a full post after dinner. Now I’m just editing pictures, longing for 8 o' clock so I can go downstairs for dinner at the hotel. There’s nothing good at dinner anyways; yesterday I decided to try some fish and it came with the skin on… but I didn’t realize this until I had already taken a bite. I was slightly repulsed haha.

Talk to you soon!

NEW IN: BERSHKA BUTTERFLY DRESS

Major creeper face in the picture! 

Don’t mind me in my natural habitat, it’s truly my other side haha

Here’s the dress I told you all about! It was 22.99€ according to the bershka site. It instantly reminded me of the "one teaspoon" dresses we see so often on tumblr. Don't be fooled by its beauty though, it's incredibly uncomfortable because the slip underneath is supposedly meant to hug your body. However in my case, it slides up my butt every 5 seconds so I have to walk around holding it down. Beauty is pain?! LOL

FIRST FEW HOURS IN SPAIN

Hola ;) 

The flight over here was surprisingly alright (with airline Rossiya), although I’m pretty loyal to Air Canada and stand by my belief that it’s the best airline ever =) I just love feeling safe on a flight no matter what. I read in a magazine that flying in an airplane is like flirting with death- very true. Especially when you’re flirting with death 4 times in 3 weeks, it can be quite the risk haha. Oh, not to mention my flight number was 911, uh, a little too soon don’t you think?! LOL

Anyways, Tossa De Mar, the little city we’re staying in is beautiful, we’ll go to Barcelona soon to check it out, but as for now we’re surrounded with a quiet, historical city and the beach. 

Here’s some pictures of this afternoon, I’m off to dinner at the hotel now (hope it’s good… bad food = bad sonya)!

 

I MUST HAVE WALKED 1000 MILES

Happy Wednesday!
Its Wednesday, right? Time flies when you're halving fun! No, time flies when you fly through several time zones haha. Today I'm pretty sure I did enough walking to amputate my legs with no pain. We walked to find a bershka store, where I found a pretty little white dress you'll see very soon. We also went to the restaurant terrassa, which was one of my goals in coming to St. Petersburg! Look out for vlogs coming soon.

Talk to you soon
♥

Wearing classic wayfarers by Ray-ban: bit.ly/KL7VWv

STUCK IN MUNICH

Hey hey!
I've been stuck (and sleeping) in Munich for the past 8 hours because our flight from Toronto was late, making us miss our flight to St. petersburg! There's a lesson about connecting flights for you! Gelato and gum have become very active on my life recently, which probably explains the stomach ache. Hopefully we'll be on our flight in 2 hours, and arrive in Russia by midnight.
Good luck to me...haha

17TH BIRTHDAY

What? I'm not 12 anymore? I can't order the chicken fingers off the kids menu? Just kidding, I don't eat chicken. I'm totally not kidding about how I feel like I'll always be 12, though!
What an amazing day it was! I did spend half the day alone (it was a wednesday and nobody thought they were cool enough to skip their obligatory social institutions for me). I got my hair dyed, which you can see in the picture! Also, some birthday macarons from Nadege in Toronto! It was an amazing day, and the celebration isn't even over yet! Today I'm going for high tea at the Windsor Arms in Toronto, and of course I'll take pictures!
I can't thank you all enough for your birthday wishes!
Love you and thank you thank you thank you!

CHEETAH RAWR-OMPER

Get it? Rawr-omper? No? Okay :(

Looks can be deceiving, it was actually pretty cold this day, well it was +20 and to me that’s pretty cold! I wore my new ZARA studded sandals, H&M romper, Free People blouse, ZARA purse and Rayban sunglasses!

Happy June lovelies!

  My new dogeared amethyst necklace! Amethyst is my favourite word so I kind of had to buy this. It’s my “i love you” present to myself on my birthday. I honestly want to buy myself a diamond ring just to furthur my relationship with myself. You can check out the necklace here: http://bit.ly/L8Strm

 Vegan soft serve! Crazy right? It tasted exactly like real ice cream, except of course there was no milk in this whatsoever. I’ve been seriously avoiding milk recently because I sometimes push aside the fact that I’m lactose deficient and can’t digest milk products, but then end up in pain and bloating.