Best Mistake

Hey everyone! It had been too long since i made a cover, so i decided to do best mistake by Ariana Grande. I really hope you like my version of that amazing song, Let me know what you think! 

X Nathalie

Music in the Subte, trying Mate and Dulce de Leche

I won't begin this post with saying sad things.. so I'll say: Germany has won the world cup! congratulations.

Argentina lost in the final :( but that also means that they are second! And most of the Argentinians here were really happy about that because it was the first time after 24 years they got through the quarter finals. The day after the match, the football players went back to Argentina and the people were waiting for them at the airport or at Av. nueve de Julio. It is near my school and it was so full of people.

My dad told me many times that I need to be really carefull with my things and myself because it is more 'dangerous' in here than in Europe. Of course it is a bit true, but I think it is more likely to die in  a traffic accident than being robbed! The traffic here scares me. All the cars and busses just go everywhere the want. 

I'd rather take the Subte (the subway), it is way faster and it looks safer to me :p. And I really like that many people make music in the Subte. People do that in many coutries but here they don't only play in the metrostation but also in the metro. Here is a video of a guy playing piano in the Subte. Luciana, her brother Manuel and I just had lunch and were on our way home;) 

My Argentinian friends made me try some typical argentinian food. For example Dulce de Leche, i loove it. They eat dulce de leche with everything! they make cakes with dulce de leche, ice cream of dulce de leche, dulce de leche with banana, dulce de leche pancakes, dulce de leche on toast, y mucho más!One of the nicest things they make with dulce de leche are Alfajores, a kind of cookie. When you go to the supermarket you can buy soo many different kinds of Dulce de Leche:






Another typical thing from Argentina is Mate. It is a drink. First I thought it was something similar to tea, but it's not. When watching the video you see that it looks different.  It is a social drink and with that I mean that most of the people only drink it with other people. The weirdest thing is that they all drink it from the same cup. The drink is called Mate because of the 'cup' you drink from is called 'Mate'. I am sorry Argentinians but I didn't really like mate..

If you know some Spanish speaking youtubers, you will have recognized the boy in this picture haha. It is Julián Serrano. Apparently he is also an actor in a play, that's why there was a big picture of him.
I watch too many youtubers, but mostly youtubers from the uk, usa or australia. Here I discovered a whole other 'youtube world' of spanish speaking people haha! so much fun

X Nathalie

Escuela en Buenos Aires

I love traveling! Sightseeing is a big part of traveling so I like that. But being a part of a whole new culture is much more fun! That's why I really like going to school here in Buenos Aires. Every day I go to school by Subte (the subway) just like all the other people who are going to school or their work. And that's also why the Subte is so incredibly full of people in the mornings haha. But luckily I don't need to travel that long to go to school. My school is in the centre of Buenos Aires, very close to Av. Nueve de Julio :) The school looks beautiful and I really like the lessons. 

I had French for 5 years at my high school back home, but I have the feeling I have learned more spanish in a week than 5 years of French. That's also because I hear people speaking spanish all the time of course. 

Last week my school organised a trip to La Boca, which is a really nice neighbourhood in Buenos Aires. I made a video of that trip;) If you'd like to see it, you can click here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toJU-XfTvXI And I also took some photos

Last night I was invited to the birthday party of a friend of my friends Natalia and Luciana;) It was really nice because I got to meet some more people from Buenos Aires, who are called Porteños. 

And the final match, Germany-Argentina begins in an hour !!! And I am for Argentina, obviously. Vamos Argentinaaaaaaa. But...I actually think Germany is going to win though haha. We'll see!

Here are some other pictures I took ;)

Have a nice day everyone!

X Nathalie

BA adventures #1

My plan is to make many videos of my time here in Argentina. I just finished editing my first one ;)

I really hope you'll like it!

How i got to Buenos Aires, but landed in Uruguay..

And this is already the end of my very first day here in Buenos Aires. It has been the longest day ever, and the most exciting at the same time! I knew that i had to sit in an airplane for 14 hours, but i actually realised it when I was on there. I watched some movies but I couldnt really sleep much during the flight, approximately 3 hours in total. It was not the best experience.. also because i got sick the last two hours:/ But i was still alive cause the plane didnt crash so that was good :p 

When there were just 50 minutes of flying left, the pilot announced that we couldnt go to Buenos Aires at the moment because of too much fog, so we went to Montevideo in Uruguay. And now comes the best part: we had to wait for 2,5 hours inside the airplane till we could fly to buenos aires, and couldnt even get out.... But i was still happy, because I just landed in South America for the first time of my life !! 

So after 2,5 hours we flew to Buenos Aires, and after a short flight i had finally arriveddd! Natalia and Luciana picked me up at the airport, who i had not seen in a year! I met them in London, where I studied last summer. It was great to see them again !

The rest of the day we walked around some parts of Buenos Aires. And i had Merienda for the first time. Merienda is the meal between lunch and dinner.

I didnt take many interesting pictures or videos, but i wanted to share a few. Firstly of course an airplane pic, and i also like the Argentinian schoolbus; escolares. And something really weird: while we were waiting for the bus there obviously came several busses but also horses with carriages. 

I'm looking forward to these 6 weeks! and to seeing the football matches with an argentinian commentator:p Hopefully Argentina and the Netherlands will both win saturday so they'll have to play against eachother! must be fun

X Nathalie. 

The next adventure // BUENOS AIRES

It has been a long time since I've written something about traveling. But that will change from now on! Because my next trip is getting closer and closer. Only 8 days left till I am going to Buenos Aires in Argentina :D I will be there for 6 weeks, discovering the south american lifestyle and learning how to speak spanish. 

I'll be writing about everything in Buenos Aires and my experiences on this blog!

my very first performance

There is a show every year at my school. I never had the confidence to audition for it. But this year my friend Christa and I wanted to perform on that show! So we made a medley of Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars songs :) We passed the audition and they asked if we wanted to do another song as well. So we did Confetti by Tori Kelly! You can copy this link to watch that song if you'd like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4wuI1q1qsU

I hope you like them!

Wanderlust

 Wanderlust: A strong desire or impulse to wander, travel and explore the world

Just this simple, 10-letter word, describes how I feel most of the time. I don't know where it comes from or why I have it, but what I do know is that it is amazing! 

I made a little list of things about the wanderlust I have:

1. Tv shows about travelling are the best ones. You can just sit down in your comfiest chair, throw on some cosy pyjama pants and watch the world.. Many other cultures, the highest mountains, the bluest oceans are all shown on that little tv-screen. .... But than that feeling called wanderlust comes into my mind, and i just want to grab my passport and go to the nearest airport to fly to the destination where the people on my tv-screen are right now. 
2. A map, globe, atlas.. I can spend hours and hours just looking at those things. Looking at all the countries and cities, and thinking of all the trips I can make in the future. A great way to spend your time!
3. The experiences you have in other countries are always fantastic. You actually want to talk about those experiences all the time.. In fact, I talk about them maybe a little too often haha. Friends and family can get pretty annoyed with me. 
4. Seeing other places, other houses and other people makes me appreaciate the things I have so much more. Travelling can give you a whole new view on the simpelst things in life. 
5. Once I got my first globe, I only wanted to get more things with a map on it. Posters, pens, phone covers, watches etc. Those things remind me of the travels I've made and the ones I'll make in the future. 

If you relate to any of those things, tell me in the comments. Or maybe you have experienced something else with your Wanderlust..? ;)

I just changed the name of my blog into www.myworldofwanderlust.blogspot.com because I want to write about travelling more often! I am planning on travelling a lot and to write about it on this blog. 

Have a nice day everybody! X Nathalie. 

Cover!

Hey guys! 

I thought it would be good to do a cover in Dutch, since I am from the Netherlands. Here we have a tv-show called: de beste singer-songwriter van nederland. It's a talent show with the aim to find the best singer-songwriter of our country. This is their youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/varadbssw , where you will find many beautiful songs. Maaike sang this amazing, self-written song at her first audition. It's about missing someone. How she describes that feeling is just incredible! 

I hope the people who don't understand Dutch will also like the song :)

Enjoy! 

X Nathalie. 

New cover!

Hello! I just uploaded a new cover :) Its's a Tori Kelly song, again haha. I just love all her songs 

and i realy hope to go to one of her concerts one day. 

I hope you like my cover! 

Have a nice day!

X Nathalie. 

Reunited with my London friends

hey lovely readers!

As you know i went to London last summer, and I met some amazing people there. Saying goodbye after 3 weeks was one of the most saddest moments ever, because I knew that I wouldn't be able to see many of them very soon. But I was sure that someday I would meet them again. And I was right, coz it happened !!

About two weeks ago, I was reunited with three of my friends! Tomás from Portugal, Quentin from France and Amélie from Switserland.We spent one whole week together, including new years eve :) We stayed in the lovely mountains of Switserland, at Amélies house. It was an amazing week.

This is a picture Tomás took of Amélie and I and the beautiful mountains

X Nathalie 

MY NEW COVER

Hello!

I just uploaded a new video on youtube. It's a cover of the song 'Kiss me' by Ed Sheeran. Yes.. i know i am in the bathroom again! Hope you don't mind. haha. It's just that everything sounds so much better in the bathroom. 

I hope you will like it. And if you do, please like, subscribe, comment or share ;) 

Have a nice day, x Nathalie

TIME TO TALK ABOUT MUSIC // Caroline Glaser

I subscribed to Caroline Glaser a long time ago, because i thought she has such a unique and beautiful voice. The first time i saw a video of her, was when i was searching for a cover of the song 'I will wait' by momford & Sons. I saw this cover by the band The new Velvet and Caroline Glaser. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYVo8l7kACY I really liked the cover. Caroline's voice made me curious and i wanted to hear more of her. So i headed over to her channel and i subscribed immediately. 

Seeing this cover only confirms my opinion! She did an amazing job covering this song by the American Singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne. You can listen to it all day long, and you won't get bored of it. I hope you like it as much as I do. Let me know if you like it. And if you do, subscribe to Caroline's channel, obviously :)

And ow. I just read that Caroline was at The Voice, which i didn't know. I hope she came far!

X Nathalie. 

Dear no one - Tori Kelly (cover)

Heeello everybody,

I did a new cover. It's Tori Kelly's song 'Dear no one'. I saw Tori Kelly for the first time (not in real life of course :p) on the Ellen show. She performed her song there, just her voice and her guitar. I thought it was beautiful, and i could really relate to the lyrics. 

I hope you all like my cover, and please let me know what you think. And if you have any requests for a next cover, feel free to tell me!

Have a nice day!

X Nathalie

Instagram!

Since I have my camera, i've been taking photos of everything the last few weeks haha. And i came up with the idea of creating a new instagram account to share the pictures i'll make with my new camera. So if you would like to see the pictures I post in the future, you can follow my new instagram: picsmadebynath. http://instagram.com/picsmadebynath 

Have a nice day!

X Nathalie. 

Autumn photo's

Last week I turned 17 :) and I had one big wish, which i'd been wanting for quit a long time. And now i've got it!!! I have my camera :)

I have taken so many pictures since I got my camera. And as you probably know, the summer has said goodbye to us all, and autumn has arrived. I prefer the summer, but now I have my camera I love taking autumn pictures. So I took some pictures this afternoon of the beautiful autumn nature. And just to make clear, i am not a professional photographer. I just got a camera, so i am still practising with all the different options. Hope you enjoy the pictures!

I know you care!

I shared with you an Ellie Goulding song in my last blogpost, a song I love. This time i decided to cover one by myself. This is, again, such a beautiful song, and it's called 'I know you care'. Ellie has also donated this song to Save The Children campaign #song4syria. In the video of this campaign, you hear the song and you see pictures of innocent children in Syria. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI1GR78A6yg&feature=youtu.be The video really made me think about the situation over there. On the people's faces you can see how incredibly scared and sad they are. Doesn't it gives you a horrible feeling that we can't do anything from here to help those people in Syria?? If i could, i would go to syria to play a song for them, give them big hugs and the feeling that there is a change that it will all get better! BUT, you CAN help, by downloading the song 'I know you care'on Itunes. 

I really hope the video of the Save the Children's campaign will get your attention as much as it got mine. And i hope you like my video! Enjoy :) 

X Nathalie 

Just listen to this beautiful song!

Lots of songs are really beautiful, but this song got me speechless. It is a song by Ellie Goulding; 'How long will I love you?' It gave me goosebumps straight away ;) 

I hope you like it too!

X Nathalie

Music ~~ John Mayer

I've been a fan of John Mayer for a pretty long time now. But since his new album came out, I have been listening to his music Non-stop. All the songs on the album 'paradise valley' are so good! (apart from the fact that all his albums are amazing)

And i've always said that if he would come to The Netherlands i want to go to his concert. And that dream will come true! I am going to see him live in the Heineken Musical Hall in Amsterdam at october 24th. 

I want to share one of his songs with you, since it's one of my favourites :) It is not of his new album, but i love it though. Do you like it too? 

X Nathalie

Video!

Hello!

I made a little video about my time in London :) I tried to put as many pictures and vlogs in it as i could, to always remember the great time i had. Sorry if it's a bit random sometimes haha.

I hope you'll like it :)

X Nathalie