Some of the cute gifts I got from my friends- like I said before, most will be on vacation for my real b-day, so they brought me early gifts! I'm so so happy, little (and not so little-) things make my day. This is the first birthday I've celebrated in four years, so you can imagine how a few packages can make me super psyched.

The last 48 hours were frantic- my friends and I celebrated my (upcoming) 18th b-day. I'll be 18 in a week though, but most of my friends (and probably me too) will be gone on vacation so this was the last that I got to put them all together.
We celebrated at a party house; place put in the middle of nowhere that had a pool and loud speakers. We ate a lot, drank a hella lot and partied until dawn. Most fell asleep in the morning (mostly because we got back from our school trip the day before, and God knows we haven't slept a night there either). 
It was so so much fun and I love my friends for it! Thank you all for the great great night!
I got some really cool and beautiful pressies, but I'll get the most on my real birthday. People think I'm bullsh**ing when I say this, but it's so true- the best presents I can get from my friends are the awesome memories I got and the fun time my friends gave me.
 Since I'm still all groggy and tired (slept 20 hours in the last 24 hrs - woke up only to watch GOT and eat a bit)- I'll post pics from my gifts some other day. Unfortunately, I only have a few pics from the celebration, most are blurry and not for public eye. There's a video and maybe I'll post it haha
Anyway, I'll write soon! School's over so I don't have much to do. I plan to do a lot of reading and prepping for college next year, also there's a potential plan to start running and exercising more, so keep up 'cause that'll be some of later subjects I'll write about ;)

Second part of our journey was in Prague, capital of Czech Republic. We spent three days there- we toured the center and had a boat trip alongside the river Vltava.
It was so so hot and sunny all I remember was desperately looking for corner shops for water. 

At the end of third grade, every school organizes a week long trip. Usually it's something like Barcelona or Greece, but my school took us to Krakow, Prague and Vienna (a bit of a downer at first, but not bad).
So we started our journey at 4 AM Saturday and arrived at Krakow where we stayed for three days. We made a quick stop to Brno on our way there. Brno is the second biggest city in Czech Republic.
Anyway, in Krakow we stayed in a hotel near the center; the hotel way okay, beyond our expectations anyway.
In three days spent in Krakow, we visited Auschwitz, the salt mine and toured the center. I liked it more than Prague, it's pretty lively and full of young people.
My advice to anyone going there: watch out at night. Our first night-out was a bummer- we overdressed and spent the night fretting for ourselves. In 3AM everyone's outside, mostly drugged or drunk, weird people giving out flyers, cops chasing people, funny looking fellas whistling and giving you the look... After that we played smart and spent our other nights at a Shisha Bar- guys played our music and let us stay there till the morning. 

School's over, hooray!
As a tradition, each generation goes on a week long trip at the end of 3rd grade. We are going to Prague, Krakow and Vienna (all the places I've been to, though). If it were our choice, we'd go to Greece or Spain, but it's the schools' policy. We're going tonight, err actually more like really really early tomorrow morning.
So I'll be away for a while, as when I get back next Friday I'll be celebrating my 18th birthday (!!!) so you can guess it'll be a busy weekend.
In the meantime, all I'll say is that I got a haircut today and done something completely different for a change, as I was inspired by my post about haircuts (don't worry, it's not dyed in rainbow colors haha).
I'll have so so many nice photos when I get back to fill up for my absence :)

Here's something to check out in the meantime-

Artist Benjamin Garcia does amazing abstract portraits, for more see link beng-art.com

You can feel it in the air- school's just for two days and everyone's psyched about it. There won't be much of a text post today, I've got to prepare myself for my annual English test. Plus that, it was sunny and D and I got time to take a couple of pics. I felt playful today so I threw on a lot of tiny bracelets from around the world- Munich, Canary, Turkey, Rome... 

I've had complications with my old account so I made a new one. Follow me on my new Instagram - gabriela_rukavina for more frequent updates, nightout and ootd photos!

Something really cool I found on the web- an artist called Bryan Lewis Saunders did a little (or not so little) experiment. He took all sorts of drugs and medication, then made self-portraits under their influence. I assume it was dangerous and I have no idea how he got away with it, but what he did is pretty amazing. He did a variety of drugs, from marijuana and cocaine, to medical drugs like xanax or aderall.