Alisha's Corner

13/6/22-18/6/22 Hi everyone! Welcome back to my blog. This is going to be my very first weekly blog, so we'll see how it goes.  For context, I'm a 16 year old British expat living in the Middle East but I came home to London for the summer a couple of weeks ago. The purpose of these posts are just to give you a tiny snippet into my day, however busy or boring it may be. I won't be talking much about the people I spend time with because I don't think it's fair on them and they haven't consented to being talked about on my blog.  Hope you enjoy!  Monday Today was one of those really quiet, slightly boring days. I planned the blog posts that I want to put up for these next few months and I started reading Mrs Dalloway (I didn't get very far, though). My new mascara was delivered and I tried it out with my new products- I really like them but I'll talk more about them when I've gone out with them on. At the end of the day, I sat in bed and watched Family...

 Hi everyone! Every single time I travel, I'm hit with the debilitating fear that I've forgotten something really important that will ruin my entire trip and, unfortunately, that fear can become a reality. It's all too easy to bring an expired passport, or forget your phone or socks. So, in this post, I'm going to be talking about how you can ensure that this doesn't happen, allowing your mind to be put at ease. Enjoy! The main, overarching, theme that will be recurrent in all my tips is structure . Structuring your packing well means that you don't overpack, but that you never forget any of the holiday essentials. In order to achieve this structure, it's best to split your packing into separate subsections, e.g: Clothing and accessories  Cosmetics and toiletries   Things you will need in the airport Things you will need on the plane  Anything else that's relevant to your specific trip (e.g touristy things or skiing gear) Under these subheadings, write a...

Hi everyone! It's been an incredibly long time since I've last blogged- you probably don't know how I am. Over the past year and a half I've obviously grown up and changed a lot, a fact that became so much more apparent when I reread my very cringey older posts (the amount of times I said 'haha' made me want to cry). So, this post will just be me reintroducing myself, talking a bit about where I've been and what I plan to do with this blog and, hopefully, will get back into the swing of blogging. Enjoy! My name is Alisha and I'm a 16 year old British expat living in the Middle East. I've just completed my AS exams (we still do them in the international A-Levels) and I'm studying history, sociology, English literature and French. I'm sat here trying to think of what else to say, and I realise that this might make me very boring, but in all honesty I'm just your average teenage girl.  That is kind of what I want my blog to be based around- ...

  Hi everyone! Long time no see. This post is just going to be a little life update- I haven’t been posting much at all over the past couple of months and I’ll be talking about where I’ve been and how my life’s going. So, get yourself comfortable, and enjoy! You may have noticed that I’ve been MIA over the past couple of months (although you probably haven’t haha). I’ve posted a grand total of one blog post so far and that was the What Is In My Handbag , so if you haven’t seen that, go check it out. In fact, it’s been so long since I’ve written one of these posts that I had to go look at my August reflection to see where I left off! I started Year 11 in September and, so far, it’s going pretty well. We’re staying online for the foreseeable future: they said they were going to ‘reevaluate’ in November but I don’t think we’ll be physically going back to school until at least January. I could be wrong though. I was quite upset about it to begin with because I miss school but now I ca...

Hi everyone! Welcome back to my blog. Sorry I’ve been MIA and haven’t posted anything for the past couple of weeks. I’ve been very busy trying to get a routine sorted for school and it’s exhausting! I’ll talk more about this in my September reflection post (coming at the end of September) so, for now, thank you for bearing with me.  As you could have told by the title, I’m going to talk about all the things I like to carry around with me in my handbag. I’m not going to show you which handbags I use because I use different ones for different outfits, but they’re mostly small rucksacks. I honestly don’t carry a lot around with me when I go out, but I do have a few essentials that I’ll be showing you all. Enjoy! Hand sanitiser Even before the whole global pandemic thing, I always carried hand sanitiser around with me. You just never know when you or someone else is going to need it. In this day and age especially, this is super important! Phone This is very self explanatory haha but I...

Hi everyone! Welcome back to my blog. This post is basically just going to be me talking about how my month went (in the ‘ramblings’ part) and all the things that I have been loving this month (in the ‘recommendations’ part). This is actually my second monthly reflection- I did one last month so, if you’re interested, click here . I’m trying to make these posts really relaxed and casual so, if you like the more chatty posts, this post is for you. Enjoy! Ramblings So, this was the last month of summer and I’m not too sure how I feel about it. I’m starting school online this Tuesday and, honestly, I feel prepared enough. This summer was a weird one for obvious reasons so I, as well as all of my friends, didn’t feel as if we had one. Usually there is a definitive break between the school years because of the summer holidays but we didn’t really have that this year. It just feels like one year is blending into another. But, I’ve had plenty of time to get my things together for back to scho...