Thursday 31 December 2015

Imi in Florida

Yep I seem to be traveling around a lot more than I thought I ever would! Most places that I get the opportunity to go to are with my fabulous school but this time it was with my family. We have been to Florida once before  but I don't really remember it, however this time I will most definitely remember the trip. We stayed in the amazing Hard Rock Hotel in Orlando which was one of the onsite hotels to the universal theme parks which made it super super easy to get to them and we got fast passes for all the rides and early access to the park on one day. It was probably the nicest hotel I've ever stayed in. We managed to go to almost all of the main theme parks and even though I’m a true Disney girl at heart, you could not keep me away from the two Harry Potter sections in Universal with the awesome new(ish) Gringotts ride. Of course I loved the amazing Busch Gardens theme park as well where I loved seeing all of the animals! Unfortunately, there was a slight downside as I got a horrible virus and infection while we were in America that I had pretty much the whole time we were there, but it didn't stop me from going out and enjoying the days! Here are some photos from the trip:

Me and my sister at Universal

Myself enjoying the days spent at Universal

The Hogwarts castle in the Harry Potter section of Universal

Me and my sister at Disney's Epcot

 Me and my sister at Universal

The Cinderella castle in Disney World

As you can probably tell from the photographs, the time spent there was as great as the weather we had and I would still love to go back to Florida in the future, either with family or friends.
Love Imi xx

Saturday 26 December 2015

A Very Merry Christmas

Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas everybody! Despite my sadness that it is the end of that time of year I still take pleasure in writing a blog post about it and enjoying all of the presents. I had such a lovely Christmas this year and I hope that everyone else out there did too. Now I've been told many times by my friends that the way my family does Christmas is quite different from everyone else's so I thought I'd write about exactly how everything goes down in my house on Christmas Day!

It starts off with myself being the first one up and making it my job to awaken everyone else in the house. After that we tiptoe downstairs and go in to the living room to get our presents that Santa has left us. Unlike every other family I know, Santa doesn't seem to wrap our presents but me and my sister don't mind. We spend the day mainly going through our amazing gifts that we were given and I let my parents open an early present from me each year so they can get started on the yearly tradition of Christmas puzzles. After hours and hours of my dad slaving away in the kitchen, the Christmas dinner is finally ready. We eat our dinner in record time and once it’s all cleared up, have some fun with the crackers and the fun that comes inside of them. We then move back into the sitting room where it's time to open our presents from under the tree which we call our family presents. We take it in turns to open each of our presents starting with myself and going up in age order, ending up with my dad. After that we usually put on a mildly Christmas-themed movie or something to watch. This year it was Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and after that's all finished we carry our presents upstairs and say goodnight.

I love how my family does Christmas although I'm sure other ways are equally as fun. I also loved every single one of my presents this year and I picked out a few to show you!

Dot perfume by Marc Jacobs

Blanket scarf from the Atmosphere section in Primark

The Throne of Glass book series written by Sarah J. Maas

Vinyl collectible figures of Coronation Elsa and normal Elsa from Frozen

I'm so grateful for every present that I got and I really enjoyed giving out presents this year because I worked really hard on all of them which just made it the best Christmas. I hope everyone else got lovely gifts but more importantly had a fantastic day and time with their loved ones.
Love Imi xx

Tuesday 27 October 2015

Family Day Out at Tilgate

This weekend I got to spend some lovely quality time with my family as my sister and her boyfriend came and visited and we all celebrated my Dads belated Birthday, treating him to pizza, lots of presents and a fun day out a Tilgate Park. This is a place that I have been going to with my family since I can remember! It's basically a large forest-type place with long walks and a little café at the end, but it also has some little kids parks and cheap water activities to do on the giant lake. I go here at least once a month, but usually more because my family loves it so much and here are some pictures of our most recent visit:







I had the nicest time with my family at the weekend and will most likely go back to Tilgate sometime soon!
Love Imi xx

Sunday 25 October 2015

Imi in Barcelona

My school does some seriously amazing school trips and this one to Barcelona in Spain was the best one I've been on so far! This may have been because I wasn't actually working while we were there as the trip was for art, photography and Spanish students and I actually don't take any of them, I just really wanted to go on the trip and fortunately the teachers decided that I could.
We stayed in the beautiful Hotel Azul which was the nicest hotel that I've stayed in with school as the last one I stayed in had one plug socket and red and yellow stains on the headboards of the beds, which as you can probably guess, wasn't very nice. Lots of artsy things obviously occurred like going to 3 amazing museums: Museu Picasso, Dali Theatre-Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art. All of which I would love to visit again, especially the Dali museum as that was the most amazing to me. We also did some other touristy things like going on a roof top tour bus (in the rain!) and taking the underground or walking everywhere and trying different Spanish foods. We also did some sight-seeing like going to the the unfinished church building called Sagrada Familia and one of the nights we went to see a fantastic light show outside of the National Museum of Catalan in Barcelona.
Here are some of my favourite pictures from the trip (credit to my friend Emily who took some of these photos):

Inside the Dali Theatre-Museum
Inside the Dali Theatre-Museum
Outside of the Sagrada Familia
At the light show
One of the pieces at the Museum of Contemporary Art

Me and my friends outside of the National Museum of Catalan
Me and my friend outside of the National Museum of Catalan
Exploring Barcelona
Exploring Barcelona
The view from outside of the National Museum of Catalan

This trip was the best one I've been on with amazing places to visit and beautiful things to see and even amazing food! I would definitely recommend going to Barcelona for a little getaway as it is such a wonderful place to explore that I enjoyed a lot and would like to go back to in the future.
Love Imi xx

Friday 23 October 2015

Book Haul

I am a huge book nerd and recently I've seemed to rack up quite a few new ones which I'm so excited to read, so here is quite a big book haul on the books that I've gotten over the last couple of months and a bit about them.


Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
A book which I have already read and given a 5/5 stars on because it was just so amazing and fast paced. It is about a world where there are people with red blood, called the Reds, who are the poor people and the workers and there are people with silver blood, called the Silvers, who are the royals and upper class and rule over the Reds and also have special powers. But there is one Red girl who has the powers of a Silver and it's about her discovering her powers and all that. It was such an amazing read with a lot of action and is probably my favourite book of the year so far. And just to prove how good it is, it's being turned into a movie hopefully directed by Elizabeth Banks and the second book will be released at the beginning of 2016!

It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
Another book that I have already read and also loved, but it was very different from my normal reads. It's about a teen boy who is suffering from depression and ends up in a psychiatric mental hospital due to wanting to kill himself! Now I know that doesn't sound like a particularly fun read but honestly it is a book about depression which is not depressing in the least. I thought it was funny, interesting and inspiring and even though it took me a while to get through because it's not my favourite genre of book, I gave it a 4/5 and would totally recommend it to others.

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
A book which I pretty much know nothing about apart from it's supposed to be a retelling of the Beauty and the Beast which is my favourite story, so when I kept seeing this book in stores I knew I had to pick it up and also Sarah J. Maas is supposed to be a really good writer which just makes me more excited to read this book sometime soon.

Bound by Duty by Stormy Smith
A self- published book which I again know not much on. It's about a girl discovering her powers and living in a world of half-truths and choosing between her head and heart. Something drew me into getting this book and even if I can't remember what, I really want to read this book soon and move on to the second one as well, called Bound by Spells.

If I Stay and Where She Went by Gayle Forman
Books which actually took me forever to pick up because I wanted a specific cover for the first book! The first book is about a girl called Mia who gets in an accident with her family and kind of subconsciously wakes up in hospital and has to choose if she should stay or leave. I've already seen the movie of this and if the book is anything like it, then I'm sure I'll give it a 5/5. The second book I don't know as much about, but I know that Mia leaves and it's about why she left and her relationship with her loved ones. I can't wait to read both of these books because I have quite high expectations and they seem like easy enough reads that I can get through quite quickly.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Again, another book I don't know much about apart from it's set in WWII and is about a young girl and a young Jewish boy. I also know that it's a film which looks really good (although apparently very different from the book) and I'm really excited to read this book because I love history and I think I'll find this book really interesting.

Slated by Teri Terry
The first book in a trilogy which I found in Waterstones by myself without having anyone else telling me I should buy it or hearing about it before. Because of this I have high expectations mainly because I found one of my favourite book series (Bloodlines by Richelle Mead) by just finding it randomly in the store. I also have high expectations because this book sounds really awesome. It's about a girl who's memory has been erased and she doesn't know who she is, she's been "slated" and the government also think she's a terrorist so I'm guessing it's about her trying to piece her memory back together while on the run, which sounds really cool and very different from anything I've ever read before, so I'm really excited to read this book and then the next two.


I've bought way more books since getting these ones, but these are all pretty high up on my reading list as they sound so amazing! I can't wait to actually sit down and read them this Autumn and Winter and hopefully read some other books as well (I promise I don't have a book-buying problem...probably)!
Love Imi xx

Saturday 13 June 2015

A Comic Con Adventure

A couple of weekends ago I got to go to ComicCon in London for the third time with one of my best friends and it was honestly such an amazing experience. For those of you that don't know, it's basically a place filled with stalls of comics and different "fandoms" and sometimes some youtubers and people selling stuff and dressing up in cosplay. It's a totally nerdy experience but I love it because I go with my nerdiest friend and get to enjoy the day buying things and taking pictures. Here are some of my favourite pictures of the day...











I had an amazing day and can't wait to be going back again in October :).
Love Imi xx

P.s. Creds to my friend Thea who took most of these photos.

Wednesday 22 April 2015

Wishing for Summer

Hello there! A little random blog post as I wanted to rant off about how much I want it to be summer, and this is not necessarily for the heat but just for the freedom that I get. My GCSE exams start in about 2 weeks (in fact, I actually have an art GCSE tomorrow eek) and my ones end on the 12th June with everyone's exams officially ending on the 15th (in my school) and then after that, I have up until the beginning of September to be completely free. And I already have a bunch of stuff planned :) Here is a list of a few things that I either really want to do this summer, or am already definitely doing and am super excited for...

1) Prom! My school's prom is actually on the 16th June (the day after everybody's exams officially finishes) and everything is almost sorted which makes me super happy. I've got my dress and shoes and pre-prom plans sorted, we're now sorting out cars and after-prom plans yayaya.

2) Holiday! Me and my family go on a hot holiday (this year it's Tenerife) every year, and even though my sister won't be there this time (she's in France oo la la) I was allowed to invite one of my bestest friends and we are so excited to spend a whole week in a hot place, just chilling by the pool and eating delicious food.

3) Theme Parks! Definitely want to go to some theme/ amusement parks this year with a bunch of my friends, especially as they're not that hard to get to. We've already started planning a trip to Chesington World of Adventures and Thorpe Park.

4) A Few Days In London! For someone who has such an easy and shortish way of getting to London, I really don't go there enough. I really would love to go for a couple of days this summer, near the beginning when it's super hot and go shopping and have a picnic in Hyde Park and go sight-seeing and be all touristy and stuff.

5) NCS: The Challenge! I'm going to do the challenge this year which I am so excited for. I probably can't explain it very well so I'll leave the link for their website here and check it out if you think it looks interesting. It's basically a 3 week type course thing where you do fun activities and learn new skills and raise money for charities while being away from home and making new friends. I decided to sign up as it looks like a really fun thing to do over summer and I am super excited to meet lots of new people.

Those are just 5 of my main things that I want to do this summer, but trust me when I say there are many more things that I will hopefully be able to do, but don't worry, I will be spending a large portion of my time just watching movies, TV, reading books and relaxing (and of course blogging ;)). Thinking and writing about summer has just got me so pumped to get through my exams, because when I come out the other side, I have some amazing things that I'll be able to do.
Love Imi xx

Monday 20 April 2015

Movie Talk~ The DUFF

Now I'm not some amazing writer or reviewer so I'm sorry if this is awful, but I recently went to see 'The DUFF' movie and decided that I would write a type of review on it because simply, why not?!
The DUFF is a new chick flick which is all about the social status of a particular girl, Bianca (Mae Whitman) who has been given a new label as the DUFF- the Designated Ugly Fat Friend. She has to try and fight this label by teaming up with a childhood friend, Wesley (Robbie Amell) and deal with her school's mean girl, Madison (Bella Thorne) and the bullying and cyber bullying that happens to her.
It is very much a film about finding yourself, growing up and defying the system by being different. It is also an extremely cheesy chick flick, if you are not a fan of cheese and a predictable ending then maybe it's not for you, but for someone who loves movies similar to 'Mean Girls' then consider this a more updated version (although, nothing can top mean girls).
The characters, in my opinion, were all very well portrayed with the actors doing an amazing job. With a movie like this, I usually manage to find fault with one of the actors but to be honest, I thought they were all pretty amazing. And, the main romance was one that I really loved and enjoyed watching.
I also thought the comedy was perfection; it was current and relatable to a teenager and was probably the best part of the movie. Me and my friends are now constantly quoting the funny lines said.
The story line was well thought out, all though I would've liked to see more of Bianca's best friends: Casey (Bianca A. Santos) and Jess (Skyler Samuels) because I thought their characters were pretty awesome, and more of Madison (but that might just be because I really like Bella Thorne :p).
The only thing that I personally found "bad" about this movie, was that it was quite predictable and of course cheesy and quite girly. My friend who saw it with me really didn't enjoy it for these reasons, however, I found it completed the movie in a way. Another thing, is that it is so so so so different from the book. Usually I would hate this, but in this weird case, I actually didn't like the book at all (just my opinion!!!) (main reason that I won't be doing a book review) and I thought the story line of the movie and just the movie itself was way better, but if you are someone who likes movies that stick true to the book for the most part then this movie definitely doesn't. The only thing that is really the same is the whole status of "the DUFF" and the personality of Bianca, otherwise it's pretty much all different.
As you can tell, I really loved this movie (and seriously want to see it again) and I urge other people to go and see it if it sounds like the type of movie you are in to, because it's definitely worth it in my opinion.

There you go, a little review on the movie 'The DUFF'. Let me know what you thought of the movie if you have seen it, or if you are planning to see it.
Love Imi xx
p.s. little disclaimer thought I'd say, just in case, totally not sponsored.
p.p.s. as I said I'm not a professional reviewer or anything, these are more just my thoughts on the movie then anything, but I hoped you liked it.

Saturday 18 April 2015

Bloglovin... Follow my blog with Bloglovin

A tiny post just letting people know that my bloglovin, which I've actually had for a while, is now working, thanks to my loverly sister :). If you would like to give me a follow it would be much appreciated and I will more than likely follow back. Thank you.
Love Imi xx

Happy List

Kind of stole this idea off of my sister's blog, but oh well :p. Here is a list of 5 things that have made me happy this past week and why.

1) The cleanliness of my room.















I'm a neat freak anyway but I recently did the biggest clear out of my room, it was a proper spring clean, and my mum even painted it for me while I was in Rome, and now that it's done I feel so much happier. And I have already started decorating my room with cute new cushions and signs and things (pics to come soon) and it just makes my room look very put together.I always like when I have a proper tidy room because I feel like I can get on with my study and work, so I'm glad that everything is all neat and tidy.

2) Getting stuff done!
Speaking of studying I have had a lot of work to do these past 3 weeks (my Easter holidays off from school) because I'm studying for my GCSEs, and you may think that I should be terrified about them and when it comes a month from now I most likely will be, but right now I'm happy with how things are going and I'm getting through all the studying and all the little jobs I've had to recently do with ease, which has made me surprisingly calm, as opposed to my usual amount of panic.

3) My new plant :)



















Despite my mum thinking that plants in bedrooms are weird, I managed to convince her that having one in my room would be nice (even though I was probably more excited about the colour of the plant pot to be honest). I don't really know why having a plant in my room suddenly makes me feel happy, but for some reason it does, so it's staying.

4) Yummy fooooooddd















Honestly one of my favourite bits about being on my break away from school is that I can eat whatever I like, whenever I'd like to eat it. I'm one of the most fussiest eaters (I've been told :/) so school lunches aren't exactly my favourite thing (to say the least) so when I'm at home, I love it when my mum treats me with my favourite iced coffee drink (that's from starbucks, but I technically got it in waitrose) and a yummy salad mmm :).

5) The weather
Spring weather is always a bit unpredictable in the UK but for two days it was super sunny with a high temperature which was so nice because it meant I could study and do stuff outside, instead of just being holed up in my room. Even though the high heat and temperatures from those days didn't exactly last, it's still lovely weather where I am; I can go out in a t-shirt and not freeze my arms off. To me, this is the type of weather that I like at this time of year, because if I want to go outside and study, then I can, but if I want to stay indoors, I don't feel like I'm wasting the sunshine or being cooped up either. I really hope the weather stays like this when I take my exams, and then it can be hot for the whole summer plleeeaaasseee.

So there you go, five things that have made me happy this past week :).
Love Imi xx