Mademoiselle Cendrillon

A Gluttonous Cat in the Kitchen.

2013-04-07T15:34:00.002+02:00

Hello Cats !

This is quite a random sunday afternoon post. I have been "collecting" photos of most of the "amazing" creations we cook in kitchen class. Now some of those things look a bit peculiar but I put my hand in the fire (Maybe just an italian saying... uhm..) that everything tastes delicious.

We make everything ourselves with the advice of our chef, most desserts though are already made aside from the one bakewell tart in March :)

I wish I did those month per month.. well I will do now for my last 2 months.

I must say that I thoroughly enjoy kitchen class and I was considering taking a culinary path here at school but honestly I can't see myself in the kitchen, I enjoy cooking yes, baking too but working in a kitchen full time.. hell no !

Let cooking stay a hobby !

Top Left: Risotto with spring green pesto, roasted vegetables and pine seeds, beef.
Top Right: Black Forest Gateaux.
Bottom Left: Tiramisu.
Bottom Right: Lamb stew, green beans and swiss rösti.

Top Left: Pangasius skewer on rice with vegetables.
Top Right: Pork roast stuffed with plums on cauliflower.
Bottom Left: Feta on salad with nuts with lemon truffle oil and fruit bread.
Bottom Right: Some meat (sorry..chicken?) on french fries, broccoli with mushroom gravy.

Top Left: Beef Stew on Rice Pilaf with peas and watercress.
Top Right: Beef on green beans with roasted tomato and mushroom cream sauce.
Bottom Left: Homemade bakewell tart with roasted almonds on warm custard
Bottom Right: Beef carpaccio with lemon oil, parmesan and watercress.

Hope you enjoyed this culinary intermezzo on my blog :) More to come soon.. well.. end of the month roughly.

Since I'm on a culinary scholarship you might see some more food sooner than the end of April. Stay tuned.

Hugs & Kisses

Paris ~ La vie en rose 2013

2013-04-03T22:37:00.002+02:00

Hello My Cats,

so here I am.. back.

Back from where, you might think. Well I spent last week in the most amazing city in the world.
From the very first moment I set foot in there I was back in love. Maybe I was literally seeing "La vie en rose" I saw art everywhere, I was speechless from seeing poems written in the metro, having big mosaics inside the stations, violin, trumpet and other instrument players playing to get some money, the style of the french.. just everything.
Paris. My home (someday).

Present from Edie.

It's my spring break tradition now... doing something twice makes it a tradition...right ?!

Anyway.

I had the great luck and pleasure to stay at my friend Edie's flat, it's not the biggest nor the comfiest, nor the closest to the city centre but hey! free accommodation given in exchange of doing laundry and well I did food shopping and invited her for lunch and well.. my delightful presence is payment enough ;) jk

Walking behind them, was not fun.

I had a well set plan of things to do and see this week and I'm glad to say that I did most of them. I arrived on a saturday evening, quite late so that day was pretty much lost. Sunday I went on a solitary walk through Paris, heading to the Champs Elysees, which turned out to be quite a bad idea. A demonstration PRO-gay marriage was going on so several metros were blocked and the Champs were crowded like it's nobody's business. Hence why I headed back home quite early and spent the afternoon sitting on Edie's bed, watching "The Switch" (new fave movie) and several episodes of "Friends" while she was working, with a
classmate of hers, on a Chanel project. Edie's a fashion design student. Which might explain while I was sleeping next to balls of yarn and piles of different kinds of fabric.

On monday I went to Disneyland with the kind soul who back in November allowed me to see the backstage of Disneyland. He had an itinerary in mind by which one could fit as many attractions in one day as possible by switching up fast pass and queues. I guess it would have worked if many attractions weren't having "technical problems", half of the park was pretty much closed so we couldn't quite try out the system.

When we went on space mountain, or tried to, we had quite an "adventure", not only the queue was rather long but the second it was our turn, we entered the wagon, a loud noise began and we had to

Train stuck in launch tunnel.

leave the train. Moments later 100 (slight exaggeration) cast members arrived, one of them in a mountain climbing harness and well few minutes later we had to evacuate the building. From the outside one could see that the previous train was stuck in the launching tunnel. To be quite honest.. I would have loved to be stuck there. I mean they were not upside down and they probably had to leave the train by going through a peculiar passage not everyone's allowed to see.

Anyway we spent the rest of the day doing other attractions to pass the time until "Dreams!" was on. We saw the show with it's small variations so the addition of "The Lion King" and "Brave".. I must say that I liked the new bits. I'm a massive "Mary Poppins" fan so I was quite sad that they took it out but the new scenes are more lively and the music's much nicer especially the scottish music <3

Tuesday my mission was to sell my Canon 550D which I had been trying to sell for weeks now. I found a cash express shop, I must admit that I didn't get much for it but my parents were happy so.. I'm glad. Also.. with that money I can buy a new camera which on amazon is quite "cheap" so that's good. Aside from that I went to eat at "Chez Clement" with Edie, which is kind of our staple restaurant and maybe the only good thing I learnt during my disastrous Nanny experience in Paris.

One of Henry Dargers art works.

In the afternoon I went, alone, the "The Museum of Everything", now the name is an overstatement but it was a great place, sadly the exhibition is over now, but it's a touring museum so if you have a chance, give it a go. I saw quite a few peculiar pieces but the one who caught my eye the most was the work of Henry Darger, sadly it was not allowed to take photos but if you are interested google "The story of the Vivian Girls".

And in the afternoon I had scones and tea at another tea salon suggested by the lovely french blogger Valentine, called "A Priori Thé" it was quite a small place but the people there were super nice and the scones and tea were delicious. I called it a memorial for my uncle, I happened to have ordered his favourite tea "Orange Pekoe" which I never had before and he loved his scones like every normal britishmen.

Tea time at "A Priori Thé"

I spent Wednesday wandering around Paris, buying a few bits and bobs I had in mind, visiting tea salons I wrote down from somewhere and Starbucks became my second home. My 3G, although paid, wasn't working for the first 2-3 days so I needed wifi, also to figure out where my next destination was.

L'OisiveThé

Thursday was a bit of an annoying day to be honest, I was due to meet Edie in a tea salon but because
her phone died and she couldn't charge it anyway, there was no way to get in touch with her so when I eventually met her, slightly pissed off I just dropped off the keys to her place and left to go to Val D'Europe, because I was already quite late.

I went to the Magic Circus to meet my ex colleagues, sadly I found no one at first. But after a long and nice conversation with one guy from Sixt I went in the back office to find my Manager and one of my favourite colleagues so.. day saved. In the evening then was the goodbye party for one of my ex colleagues, another favourite of mine. A lot of people came, we ate, danced salsa and just had a super merry time. Loved being around those people again.

Friday started with an art exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay, which was for free because I passed as student from Edie's school... sure.. couldn't care less about fashion but why not if it's free.

It was called "The angel of the Odd" I wasn't much amazed by it, I liked the short films that they showed there, which were quite creepy or.. well.. Odd. I was super happy when I found out the title of a scene that I knew and had been searching for years. It's called "Un chien andalou" here is the video.. it's not really for the faint hearted but I find it mesmerising. Sorry for the crappy quality, blame youtube.

In the evening I finally met Laura, an au-pair girl I was supposed to meet 2 years ago and last year but we never got round to it so yea we finally met and I'm super glad. I had a great evening with people I didn't know before.. the rest is history.

Thanks to the barista for the smiley,
my mood improved slightly before
leaving Paris.

As always I was shattered when I had to leave, knowing what's expecting me back in Switzerland. What I found comforting (kind of) was a girl that I met friday evening, I only introduced myself to her and after a short conversation she started counting how many months were left until I would be moving to Paris, which I found quite adorable. I'm willing to do things the way I did them back in June 2012, graduate and leave for Paris the day after.

If things go the way I planned them, which so far is the case (almost), I should be back in Paris in July for Bastille Day, would be amazing to actually live it and not work through the day, get home on a super crowded bus and watch the fireworks in Disneyland from my balcony. I'd not go to Disney that day but I'd stay in Paris.. definitely another experience.

One last thing I NEED to mention. I hate ticket controls on the train cause I always listen to my iPod and therefore hate taking out my headphones when control comes, anyway this time due to a long night ,before, I fell asleep on the train and got woken up in the sweetest way by the control guy. He kind of tickled my shoulder, an adorable elderly (but not too old) man.. he also said something, which in that second I woke up, I didn't understand but he wished me a 'good night' once he left :)

This was it, I hope you enjoyed this long post. Stay tuned.. there's more to come, more in depth and specific topics :)

Love & Hugs

PS: If you are interested my instagram is: Joolscat ^_^

Farewell, Uncle Trevor.

2013-03-09T14:27:00.001+01:00

Hello My Lovelies,

this is a very difficult post to write. I still can't quite believe it... last night I lost my adorable uncle Trevor.

Not being home makes it so much harder, I only heard from my mam how he pretty much got worse and worse by the day and how he was weaker and everything was not going well at home anymore.

I met this uncle quite late, to be honest, but it was an immediate bound between me and him. He was such a joyful and happy person, spoke italian with his strong english accent and when he spoke english it was just a lot of fun.

5o'clock every afternoon he had to have his "cuppa tea" even in summer with 40° in the shade.. "It refreshes more than water, trust me." he used to say every single time.

How he dropped by to talk about his and my cats and have a glass of wine, how he used to love the german food we cooked, how he used to be so happy about the same presents every year.. classical music, a cat calendar, tea, mince meat (for mince pies) and a christmas pudding.

I knew my passion for the english language came from somewhere, knowing that someone from England was a little part of my family, got me more than excited. That little part is gone now. I wish I could have said goodbye one last time.

Goodbye Uncle Trevor, you are and always will be loved. You won't be alone up there, have a cuppa tea with the family and give Lillo and Paula a cuddle from me.

Disney Childhood Memories

2013-03-03T18:09:00.002+01:00

Hello My Lovelies,

today on a completely different note than usually I'm gonna talk a bit about my childhood and it's relation to Disney.
Mainly through cartoons... Classic Cartoons and "Silly Symphonies" oh those lovely short films that were all time present after school time.
On german telly there used to be a show about Disneyland Paris which unfortunately my mother and me can't remember the name of.. so silly since we watched it every single day, but anyway, after this show the famous Disney Classic Cartoons were on, always like 2-4 back to back, which I loved.
My mother had the great idea to record them on VHS so that I could re-watch them.. over and over and over :) we had so many VHS in the end.. I remember #24 being my favourite. So here is what was on #24... or what I recall being on it :)

"Ferdinand The Bull" (1938)

an adorable story about a bull, forced to be on the spanish Corrida but who preferred by far to just 'stop and smell the flowers'

Donald Duck in "Early To Bed"

Needless to say that Donald Duck was my favourite character and this short cartoon (which seemed sooooo long when I was 5) still cracks me up now, 17 years later. Poor Donald can't find peace.

btw if you can't understand one word.. it's cause the cartoon's in french (damn you youtube)

"The Little House" (1952)

Cartoon about a little house living in the country which first misstreated by a vandalising family ends up surrounded by big mean skyscrapers and finally gets to find peace with a loving family surrounded by fields, just like in the beginning.

Donald Duck in "How to have an accident at work"

First of all, enjoy the lovely jingle at the beginning, just brilliant :)

Still hilarious and from what I've heard, quite a few companies use this to actually promote safety at work.

"The Cookie Carnival"(1935)

My love of baked goods must have come from this cartoon. A little gingerbread man helps a young cookie lady become really pretty and eventually even take part at the Cookie Carnival.

Now this was just a little digest of my favourites, but I highly recommend all of the classic cartoons and silly symphonies, they are just amazing and they will stay amazing forever, I'm 100% positive that my children will grow up watching those.

You can see the heart and passion put into those. Just sit back and enjoy.

Love and Hugs

Nostalgia.

2013-02-23T18:20:00.000+01:00

It has a wrong feeling to it when you are listening to a song which clearly belongs to a city, while you are in a different city.

Sounds like a riddle right ? Let me explain.

Nostalgia is giving me a hard time. I'm starting to really dislike this city known as Lucerne.

Earlier I was on the bus heading to Lucerne and "La vie en rose" started playing on my ipod, a song that belongs to Paris, that is french, sung by the amazing Edith Piaf, about seeing life "in pink", a song that does not match to the all white scenario of Switzerland, whatsoever. It's not only this though.

A witty, although bitchy, lady once told me "To really get to know a city, you need to get lost in it. Paris is a great city to get lost in." She was right. About both points. So I did what I did on my first day of life in Paris in 2011, ipod in so that I lose complete sense of orientation and off I went.. maybe I discovered that Lucerne is not that bad afterall.

So I walked and walked and walked for roughly 1 hour, starting from a point I knew very well and yes, 1 hour later, I was lost. Yet it gave me no pleasure. If you want, you can find beauty in anything but I just can't. Of course there is some very nice buildings, but Lucerne is boringly small... I mean I just had to walk back straight and there I was, back at start point, even though I went left and right and pirouetted on myself. I eventually even found the sketchiest of areas which did not help with my mission either.

I miss Paris so much. I guess that if I had local friends here, a boyfriend here and I don't know other things that might keep me in this city, but I don't. All those things are in Paris somehow. I just can't wait to leave.

It's sad that my only connection to the "real world" or well the only place i feel kinda alright is a chain café known as "Starbucks"... getting "Chai Tea Latte with Soy milk" like I used to do every single time I met up with Edie or when I had afternoon shift at work.

I came to the conclusion that I know where my "home" is. It's in Paris. Everything I love is there, I'm just working on getting there as soon as possible. 2 more years, just 2 more years and I will be a "Parisienne".
Haul my entire life, one last time from country A to country B.

Wouldn't it be nice...

2013-02-07T19:12:00.000+01:00

to have a stable home to come to after your job ?
to meet your partner and with a glass of wine have a conversation about each other's days ?
cook dinner together and then fall asleep in each other's arms ?

Yes... it would be nice.

On Anorexia, weight loss and gain.

2013-02-02T16:53:00.002+01:00

One might think that after about 80 posts I should be able to remember my blogger password.. well.. no.
Oh by the way it just started snowing... I guess that's something humans will always be fascinated of.

Anyway..

Hello My Lovelies

Today I come to you with a different subject than normal. Weight Loss.
I can say that after the age of 8 I started to be on the chubby side. Never really fat but you know never that you'd tell me "eat a burger" then I started dance lessons which became tougher and tougher and more regular and eventually by the age of 14 I was rated as anorexic. Sounds stupid right ?
Well we had this food psychologists, nutritionists come to our school and force us to take a stupid test on our eating habits, physical data and all sorts of other things.
We were then given numbers and anonymously the numbers "at risk" were written on the blackboard.

Back in those days my best friend used to be a slightly over weight girl, sitting right next to me, so I knew her number she knew mine and as weird as it sounds we both were written on the board. Different problems yet both in the same boat.
Eventually we were invited to go see this psychologist and well it was amongst the scariest things in my life. Never would I ever have expected myself in a recovery clinic for eating disorders. I was not doing anything. I sped up my metabolism, had dance class about 5 times a week for 2hrs each time and ate healthily. Apparently it was too much.
The psychologist called us in. Pitch black dyed hair quite fake looking, fake tan, black lipliner and glittery pink lipgloss... an epitome of bad taste.
She bombarded us with a series of questions and if we did not answer straight away she almost shouted "YES OR NO ?".
We gave her our phone numbers and she wanted to give us appointments with our parents. Luckily that never happened. I'm blessed I got "out of it" without any help.

Thing is.. I actually went back to the chubby side. Now this is something quite personal. I never liked my body, like, ever. There is always too much or too little. Legs are too short, stomach too protrudent.
When I went for my work to Ireland that's when I hit rock bottom. Loads of unhealthy food and hardly any exercise made me gain tons of weight to the point that when I came back home, no one avoided telling me I got fat.
I spent all summer losing those 7kg I gained and thank god I managed that pretty well.

What's been annoying me though is that. That was 2 years ago. I've been stuck on the same weight for 2 years. My BMI tells me I'm overweight so now I decided that it was definitely time for a big change.
I'm 21. I want to feel confident, wear age appropriate clothes and not dread the spring and summertime because of my hips.
Of course I'm not a 200kg girl, far from that... thank god. Yet I do probably have the same body issues and insecurities.
Chubby cheeks give the impression of youth. Thing is.. when you're 21 the last thing you want (maybe that's just me) is being asked for your ID because you look underage. Don't get me wrong, it's an advantage I used rather often but still. One day I'll beg to look "young" again but right now. NO.

Anyway what I'm trying to say is that I'm the laziest person on the planet.. maybe not but I used to live by the phrase "Can't reach it ? Don't need it !"
But since I want change I'm trying to do something every day. I've now set up an account on this amazing page called Sparkpeople. You can track your daily food intake and the calories, the exercises you do and the calories burnt, the amount of water you drink (VERY IMPORTANT) and last but not least there is tons of forums to read for advice, recipes and motivation. You can also set a goal and it tells you in how much time you can achieve it and how many calories you're "allowed" to eat to achieve it.
Now I eat at the cafeteria of my school which makes those tracker a little bit complicated but it's also a reason to eat healthier, to eat separable foods and I'm becoming a pro of "eyeballing" quantities.
About the exercise. I like exercise no I LOVE IT ! Thing is I can hardly ever get myself to do it. I used to dance and used to love it to bits but here I don't have the chance and funds to do it so I have to do something easier.

For once I downloaded this app called P4P: Abs which can be a bit repetitive I must admit but it really works. I did that for 3 weeks and I did have a flatter stomach :D Aside from that, a lovely friend of mine shared the famous "30 day shred by Jillian Michaels" with me and now it's been a week that I have been doing that. Been sore for the first 5 of those 7 days but you can see results, you feel more energetic and everything's starting to be a lot less flabby.

I'm not going to state my weight, I sort of do that on twitter in peculiar little ways but well. Tomorrow is my weighing day so cross fingers and toes. I've been good this week so everything should be fine :)

Sorry for the really long post but I hope you found it interesting. Reason why I am sharing this is because our "Personal Development Teacher" told us that a shared problem gives motivation. I am already motivated but this was also to give some ideas to those feeling lazy and lost.

Love

Back to the Swiss Life.

2013-01-23T23:30:00.003+01:00

Hello My Lovelies,

I have about 2 essays to write, one report to prepare, a presentation to research but... this blog has been neglected, I'm aware and I want to apologise. So here is what happened the past few weeks.

Part of my lovely kitchen uniform.

I'm back at my university in Switzerland, 2nd year and if you remember last year I was a waitress, this year I'm a cook. If at first there was a general panic in me cooking I'm now quite alright with it. It's very tiring, 5hrs from 8 in the morning until 13.30 with a short lunch break in between but it's fine. Thank god it's only 2 times a week.

Roast pork stuffed with plums on a veggie
macedoine with red wine sauce.

We get to choose from the menu which part we want to prepare and during my last class I decided to work on the "Roast Pork stuffed with plums" you might wonder what's special about it... well technically nothing besides the fact that I'm a vegetarian and well it wasn't the most pleasant thing to do to stuff my hand inside a piece of pork meat but well it had to be done. I'm forcing myself to face a few more chances this year.

It's been snowing on and off here lately but the past 2 days the nice Swiss sun came back and gave us some sunny, albeit cold, days.

This year's view.. not really new.. same floor just a change of room by 3 doors xD

Typically swiss food. Cheese Fondue.

I spent quite a few days going to town, to Pilatusmarkt and to the lake... I mean there's not A LOT of choice but I want to see the city a bit more, reason why me and Franzi are trying a few restaurants and things we haven't done here yet. We went to the Fondue House to have a traditional swiss fondue. Although being really really yummy it's also really stuffing, this pot was for 2 and we didn't even finish half of it.

This year again I'm a candidate for the SRC... I'm not too much after it but it would be cool, I liked it last year, it involves you in a lot of things but of course it also keeps you quite a lot busier but well it's interesting.

Anyway that's it for this quick update.

I hope to write a bit more often also cause I have a monthly schedule now, so there will be at least one post each month :) but hopefully more than that.

Love

Au revoir 2012, bienvenue 2013 !

2012-12-31T01:53:00.002+01:00

Hello My Lovelies,

long time no see (as usual)...
Let me update you on a few things, so things are back to... I guess normal ? I'm back in Italy which means that my internship at the fabulous Magic Circus is over... oh tears have been shed.
I had the best of times and I will keep the memories forever. My internship ended with an amazing "Goodbye/Christmas" Party with my colleagues. First we went to a fancy, super elegant italian restaurant, then we went bowling and last but not least to a club.
I miss those guys.

With most of my amazing colleagues :)

I will leave out the details about my departure day because well that is a whole different story and ended with a complaint e-mail sent to Air France... oh yes I had to listen to a lot of complaints this year so why not be on the other side and be the... "complainer" ?

I've now been home for 16 days and I will be heading back to lovely Switzerland in 1 week and I really can't wait to be back. I must admit that I'm getting sick of traveling... it's amazing, incredible, people envy me... bless them but I swear it ain't fun having to haul your life back and forth.
It will eventually end and I'll be able to settle... just not now.

Last year I started a diary in which I wrote down a few moments, in the back I noted my 2012 resolutions so here are the nominees of resolutions 2012:

Write in the diary every work or school day (FAIL)
Become more or less fluent in french (WIN je ne crois pas que je parle français courament mais surment je le parle carrement mieux que au debut)
Get to 60 or 58 (FAIL, yet I managed to keep my weight all the way through the year)
Make more interesting videos (FAIL, I gave up my youtube career)
Keep in touch with one special person (FAIL randomly but not much..)
Get good grades (WIN well... kinda..)
Buy from vintage stores to save money (FAIL !!!!!!! Especially the saving money bit)
Get hair to "under-boob" lenght (FAIL now this was a joke I made with my best friend Marty but included it anyway, at some random point in time I reached that lenght but my hair was more than fried so i cut it off.. I'm on a good way now though)
Keep learning dutch (WIN as in I kept doing it a bit.. enough to check people in)
Rewatch all of "Friends" (WIN I did.. and... re-did)
Get more active (FAIL ! Besides random outbursts of energy I hardly did anything)
Have random dates. (WIN now this needs a bit of explanation.. I had a random date last year 2011 with a guy i met at FNAC, we had been at the same casting and we just went for a coffee afterwards. It was a fun thing so i thought whenever someone in a situation like that asked me out I'd go for it and I did 5 times.. Can't remember who all those were but whatever)

So that was it for 2012. There was actually just 1 more which I didn't want to write on here but it's been a WIN too.
Now for 2013 I don't have a lot.

Eat Less
Get back into running.
Say YES more often.
Learn and USE my Canon camera (maybe finally sell that huge lens to get a smaller one ?)
Keep in touch with my ex colleagues.
Follow the idea of my favourite blogger "Hello it's Valentine" and post every month 7 things I loved (in pictures...reason to use the Canon more)

And that's also it..it was a bit of a messy post but there's more to come. I'll post more often these days preparing up to my travel again.

Until then.. see you, next year.

Have a good new year's eve, party hard.. not too much.

Love

The Disneyland Paris Backstage, thanks to... the internet.

2012-11-14T15:42:00.001+01:00

Hello My Lovelies,

My life’s troubled with being alone somewhere in the world, from time to time, the internet is an amazing matter to keep connected and to get to know new people.

Bless the internet for most of the people I got to know this year.

Most of them I met through twitter.

I have a personal twitter and a Disney related twitter (on request of someone *cough* CF) and through the Disney related twitter I got to meet and to know a bunch of lovely human beings.

First there’s Thomas whom I met together with Jolien and Annelies this summer in DLP after a terrible night shift. I spent a lovely day with them in the park and it was great to meet them in real life. They’re Duffy crazy and super animated, it was like being with “undressed” characters all day <3

Annelies, Me, The Mouse Himself, Jolien, Thomas and their Duffies @ Meet Mickey

Secondly, this was less twitter and more mails honestly, I got to meet Blogparks (I guess it's more something for my italian followers as he writes in italian). I’m not saying his name for reasons but, he’s a castmember. He came back to work during the halloween period and we met up twice and thanks to him and his fearlessness I got to see the backstage, the hidden bits of Disneyland Paris. Saying that I was an emotional wreck is nothing, yet I kept it cool HA HA always been there, i know every corner of it.. of course... OMG IS THAT THE BIGGEST WARDROBE IN EUROPE ??? O_O

Sadly no pictures allowed.. well probably they are allowed but since I was there quite “illegally” it wouldn’t have been good to risk. On the matter of risks.. we ate at Imaginations ! I ate at the CM cafeteria.. *act normal, keep it cool*

And, this is probably a quite well hidden secret... right on the opposite side of the restaurant Walt’s is another CM cafeteria (I ate there too ^_~).

It was 2 afternoons of Disney secrets sharing.. one of which I spoke on here about: the “Harringtons” dome.. he didn’t know of that... shame ! haha

He introduced me to a bunch of little CM procedures which I will (hopefully) eventually get to know very well but it was nonetheless amazing to get to know so many little things that you would normally not know.

The second time we met it was the opening of the Christmas Season so we got to see the tree while it was being turned on. Simply amazing :) Although I need to go back again because there was a show going on under the tree and we were quite far away to actually see it.

So here I leave you now with this little insight to the hidden area of Disneyland Paris.

Have a good day.

Love

You're so brave.

2012-10-18T19:01:00.001+02:00

21.

That's the present age of the writer of this blog. Yup 2 days ago I became legal age in the US.. not that I care since in Europe I've been for the last 3 years.

Lately I've been getting a bunch of comments all of the same kind, whether its guests I'm having small talk with or colleagues or friends.

"You're so brave, so young and so far away from home." I'm getting to the point of saying.. grow some balls. You're 30 (or older when it came to guests)... I'm not brave.. I had to do it.

I grew up in a place where my future was working in a supermarket. When I was 6 I remember people asking me (cause I was such a talent speaking 2 languages back then -_-°) whether I wanted to stay in Italy and I always said NO. Imagine a 6 year old... with a brain.

Of course I know that it's a compliment but I can help but hearing envy in some words and I always remember a phrase I *secretly* lived by.

If you don't like where you are, change it! You're not a tree. - John Rohn

Which is exactly what some people need to start living by when they're unhappy... moving to another country can be difficult but start with a reason why and find something to do and f****** move away. You will miss your friends and family but.. you will make new friends and keep in touch with the old ones (yea right as if...).

Make something out of your life.

I'm glad to say that I finally found my place in this world... I'm a hotel management student. I want to be a hotel manager.. one day... yes one day.. but I'm working on it. I'm actively working on my dream. Start doing !

The downsides of this live is the change of companies, not the place you live in.. you gotta find your little corner of paradise (there's one everywhere), but the change of people... it's difficult that you move to a place and already have a close group of friends. You come to realise that... damn it's difficult to make friends. I mean.. as adult where do you meet people ? Besides your colleagues ?
But you eventually get there it takes a little time.

Anyway I leave you now with this a little negative post, with a song that I thought fitted really well, then I looked up the meaning and... it's absolutely perfect. Only thing.. it's in german.
It's about the need for "strong arms" that can carry you home. Home, is not a physical place because due to the traveling it's not possible,it's a place that you have to create inside yourself.

Enjoy.

Love

Long time no see: being a night audit, birthdays and relationships.

2012-10-04T18:49:00.001+02:00

Hello My Lovelies,

....still someone there ?

5 o'clock in the morning... conversation got boring..

I know it's been over a month but life just rushed by. Can you believe it's already october ? where did this year go ? You're probably hearing this a lot lately.. I think we're always saying this every single year around this time.

Today I am on my break, so here I am writing to you with a few updates.

1. I survived 2 weeks in the horrible midnight shift.. 23-7 is absolutely not fun believe me. I learnt a lot as night audit but it's definitely not a job i'd like to do all my life, imagine always working when others sleep and sleeping when others wake to go to work. I lost completely the notion of time and I was just constantly confused.

Pic from Edie's Birthday.

2. My friend Edie is back in Paris for a years (at least) this time to studying Fashion. Hope it's going to work out well this time, considering that both our last experiences in Paris were quite unfortunate (see october 2011).

Marie and I being obnoxious in the middle.

3. I do still absolutely love my job and I'm growing fonder and fonder of my colleagues which is great and on the other hand bad, I'm gonna miss them a lot when I'm leaving.
Apparently in the month of November I'm changing services, either housekeeping or reservations. It's interesting but it also saddens me a bit. I only hope that I get to spend my last 2 weeks in december at the reception.

4. I guess I can update on my private life as well.. I can say that now we're 2.. no i'm not pregnant. But that's also all you get. It's an unfortunate situation like always. In any case so don't expect a fairytale to come out of it. I'm a realist.

We don't have pictures together.. this seemed fitting enough ;)

Well that is everything for now. Sad news, my annual passport expired.. but maybe with my birthday money (like last year) I will renew it. November is Christmas Time a.k.a my favourite and I missed it last year so I definitely gotta be there this year.

Toodle pip, until next time.

Love

Be the guest you want to be remembered for and other ramblings.

2012-08-09T17:14:00.001+02:00

Hello My Lovelies,

another day another bunch of moron guests.
Don't get me wrong, not everyone's bad but more often than not you get guests where the check-in lasts literally 10 minutes (when everything goes well) just because you want to get rid of them ASAP.
Guests who don't smile, who don't say hello, who just hand you their reservation and when you explain things or ask question don't even listen or not or give any sign of life.
Those are the guests I dislike the most.
Not even the ones who complain, they're showing emotions.. but those who do nothing.. oh dear they're the worst.

Today I really surprised a guest but it was an awfully lucky shot :) Minutes before he arrived there was a problem and bla bla bla hotel stuff I saw that there was only one guest who booked through a particular agency for today.
When he then arrived literally 5 minutes later and handed me his papers I greeted him with name and surname before even looking. He was there shocked for 10 minutes, it really was a laugh. He was a nice guy and kept wondering how I did it well... we're not called "Magic" Circus for nothing :)

I also love excited kids and what I noticed to be REALLY common is.. as soon as I smile at them they dive behind the counter to not be seen haha but later again they show up and it's usually quite funny.
I had a little girl today about 7-8 from Netherlands and since I'm working quite hard to learn some dutch, I asked her for her name and bless her, she understood me and even asked back :)

Lately I'm spending a lot of time with my colleagues, which I really like, I'm working with some great people. Especially one, she's super nice, at the beginning I didn't like her much but then I hated most people in the beginning. I mostly go out with her, a few days ago we went grocery shopping together to a very cheap place which is located in dumbfuckistan... right in the middle of fields and cows you have France's answer to Germany's ALDI: LeaderPrice.
We went shopping in the afternoon and yesterday we went for Crêpes and then to a colleagues house... the last bit was a bit awkward because of reasons but anyway it was cool.
A few evenings ago we all went out to the "club" which is in the Disney Village, also known as Billy Bob's, it was a lot of fun there.. never thought i'd enjoy myself in a disco, being the person I am, but then.. it's the company who matters :) and it was really a great night !!
Also.. I'm finding myself wanting to buy clothes almost just to go out... usually when I went shopping with friends and they bought clothes to go dancing I couldn't care less. For me going out was, day clothes paired with darker make up and eating a pizza with friends... now it's a whole different stories.

I have many things planned lately so that I need to find time to be alone sometimes.. which is great. I love being busy, remember how sad hanging around alone everyday ? Well those days are over ;)

Anyway that's it for now, I will leave you with a rubbish song that we've been singing and dancing to for weeks now.. super catchy xD

Take Care

Love

Oh italian language how I love thee.

2012-08-08T22:00:00.001+02:00

Hello My Lovelies,

this is going to be a bit of a strange post. I had this impression for years, especially while studying english, but now that I'm learning french I just realised it even more.

Italian is the easiest of languages.

1. You pronounce every single letter ! Aereoplano ? you say every letter ! Not like french or english "Parlent" = parl - "Biscuit" = Biskit.

2. Masculine and Feminin words are easy to reconise. It ends with an 'A' - Feminin. Ends with 'O' or 'E' - Masculin.

and what I'm most annoyed about in the 3 languages I know, besides italian, is the unclearness when it comes to relationships.
Now being incredibly insecure, having:

In English,"I love you" meaning something like "i love you" AS FRIEND and also "i love you" AS GIRLFRIEND, just makes me go mental.

In German you have the same BS but with the word Boyfriend. When you say "Freund" it means both boyfriend and male friend. So most of the time to be clear you say this is "a friend" which can be a bit stupid to say. I don't know how to get this across but I hope you understood my point :)

In French and I only found this out a few days ago after it really happening and me still being confused. The word "Copine" can mean girlfriend or just friend.
Now being someone who goes from stranger to boyfriend while skipping quite a few steps in between.. being asked to be someone's "Copine" can be incredibly worrying.
Oh well.. I shall see what comes in that case.

Anyway back to languages, in Italian, you have everything very clearly.
Boyfriend = Fidanzato
Friend = Amico/amica
I love you = Ti amo
I love you (as friend) = Ti voglio bene

Well aside from this strange linguistic rant, a proper post will come these days. It's ready, it just needs a few touch ups and it goes up.
Nothing really Disney related for the following days, as I didn't go to the park in a while, maybe in a few days a little "review" on Fantillusion.

Take Care
Love

Unplanned depressive like post.

2012-07-27T13:54:00.001+02:00

Hello My Lovelies,

My mood is not at its best lately. Today I found this on facebook and it was quite on the spot. The post is in italian but I'll translate it to english.

Tu sei il tipo di persona che alle feste se ne sta in disparte. Te ne stai seduta in un angolo e osservi, ti dispiaci per chi non si diverte e sorridi invece per chi urla e fa casino. Ti piace cogliere le sfumature delle vite degli altri, dimenticandoti delle tue. Adotti lo stesso comportamento quando devi relazionarti con qualcuno, entri nella vita delle persone in silenzio, non fai frastuono, non urli, non batti i piedi per terra, preferisci che siano gli altri a farlo, per questo poi quando te ne vai nessuno se ne accorge, mentre la loro assenza diventa quasi palpabile per te.

You're the kind of person that at parties stays on the side. Sitting in a corner and watching, you're sad about those who are not having fun and you smile for those who shout and are enjoying themselves. You like to catch the little details of other people's lives, forgetting your own. You often adapt your behaviour to those of others when you have to relate to them, you enter people's lives quietly, without noise, you don't shout, you don't stomp your feet on the ground, you prefer that others do that, that's why, when you leave, no one notices, whereas their absence is almost tangible for you.

A bit loosely translated, but as long as the message comes across that's what's important. As much as I changed in Switzerland, I can't deny myself.. that's who I am. I will never be loud, unless I feel 100% comfortable.
Hope you're having a good day.
Love x

Sickness post + World of Disney Store.

2012-07-12T11:14:00.000+02:00

Hello My Lovelies,

I had planned for my next blog post to be about the return of Fantillusion with pictures but sadly I didn't get to see it yet.
I saw it many times in the past years and after the Main Street Electrical Parade, Fantillusion is my favourite parade among them all. Mainly because it reminds me of my trips to DLP with my mam, when everything was fine and DLP still had that little bit more of magic to me than it has now.
I worked all week from 15/16 till 23/24 so I always missed it, but working the morning shift all week next week I will definitely head to the park.

Today's post comes from a rather sick Julie. The weather here has been utterly rubbish (guests blaming front office as usual for that ^_~) so temperature changes and wet feet as usual got me a lovely cold, with cough and loss of voice. It wasn't too bad on me at work, mainly thanks to Vicks Day Med and a german cough med but now I just need my 2 days off to rest and do nothing.
I'm writing in my bed, wrapped up in a fleece blanket and my duvet, socks and a hot water bottle under my feet, cuppa tea with honey next to me... got the image ? Oh yea add a granny bun and you can bet your salary that if I had some yarn and a few needles I'd be knitting.

Luckily (and sadly) I'm living alone now.. my room mate left yesterday. I really liked her so I hope I get someone as nice as her, maybe a bit younger so that whenever I say something age related I don't have to pull out a foot out of my mouth !
Luckily because I slept horribly last night so I've been awake since 5-ish and with a room mate I would have had to stay in bed and be quiet and what not.

Anyway to keep this blog post somewhat Disney related.
The day after my last post I finally visited the World of Disney store :) and also bought something. Sadly nothing that I had in mind was in the shop but I'm pretty happy with my buy anyway.
The store is absolutely AMAZING ! It's huge, it's colourful but elegant and goodness me the paintings on top are just gorgeous. I made a short video of them while I was in there, it was pretty full otherwise I would have taken a few more photos and/or videos.

Anyway darlings my tea is waiting. Enjoy your day and if you're in Paris, today is the official opening of the World of Disney store, no clue what's going to be different to the other days but please visit and tell me what happened :)

Magical Greetings.

Love

Taking a stroll down Main Street U.S.A.

2012-07-07T01:04:00.001+02:00

Hello My Lovelies,

The man, the myth and his adorable wife Lilly.

every week I get 2 days off and unless I have something planned, one of the two days (at least) will be spent at the Disney Parks.
Today was one of my free days, I read on twitter that the Annual Passport holders got early access to the World of Disney Store (due to open July 12th) but as always I didn't get an invitation even though I have the Dream passport, anyway my plan was to go to the office inside the park to fix this because besides the discounts I never get anything and it's not fair, especially not now that I live nearby to actually attend events and such.

Once in the park there was an incredibly long line at the office and then rain.. lots of rain, it wasn't a nice moment but I eventually got in and got told that I crossed NO to e-mails and didn't leave an e-mail address which to me sounds like utter BS because my e-mail is the only thing that stayed the same for the past 1 1/2 years so, anyway I left my e-mail and let's hope it will bring me something.

Remember my "secrets" list ? Well I went on a hunt today to discover a few of them :)
Alright here we go :)

Fairies at "La confisserie des trois fées": I thought that they appear and disappear, but I stood in the shop 10 minutes and they were always there

Phone in "Town Square Photography": I actually listened to it but I thought that when you make a sound they will stop talking, I actually spoke to the phone and nothing happened but it's fun to listen.

Dome in "Harringtons": I don't remember what was so special about it besides the fact that it looks stunning

The Moustache at "Dapper Dan's Haircuts": there is 2 mirrors.. for one I'm a little too short as you may see from the picture and I didn't take a photo of the other one yet as I was a bit too awkward to kneel down xD it's almost at knee height.

Now this, this isn't a secret AT ALL but shame on me I never noticed this, and it's there so many times actually at the entrance of the park you have this plate (?) quite often. It's a different version to the american one "Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy"

And to finish off this pretty nice day at the park, I bought myself a little present. I wanted to buy something to hold my make up brushes but the stores at the shopping centre didn't have anything appealing so today when I found this (originally planned as candle holder) I bought it, got discount on it and it's now happily holding my make up brushes in the bathroom.

I wish you, my readers, a magical day.

Heading off to work.

Love

Flash mobs and other great ideas.

2012-06-29T15:09:00.000+02:00

Living in France and especially Paris means that you are almost 100% depending on the metro system which usually comes quite often OR, especially when you're in a rush, after an hour. Anyway, being a constant "rider" my trustworthy friend the iPhone, functioning as iPod, gives me a bunch of stupid ideas. While I'm listening to a really upbeat song and I happen to be standing almost at the edge of the curb with everyone behind me I always imagine myself as being the first to start a flash mob.. That I'm just waiting for the right moment to start my routine an everyone will follow ending in an amazing movie moment.

Actually I had a moment like this, the last evening I was in Switzerland, almost all of the school went out to the club, which on a Thursday evening was more than empty, all the club to ourselves. At one of the events most of us learnt a small routine to "Danza kuduro" and not everyone was dancing...about 3 people started and soon more as more joined it was so much fun to see the faces of the few people who weren't from our school who looked confused.

I don't remember if I actually ever wrote or spoke about this I only remember always wanting to talk about it when I first lived in Paris last year. I really liked the "dance of the sugarplum fairy" back then and you can't believe how much fun it is to listen to it while doing people watching!! Especially during rainy weather it looks as if people are dancing to it and jumping and doing silly walks it's just a lot of fun. I highly recommend trying it :) especially in autumn !

Most of the time I'm listening to comedians on the metro, long programmes which are funny to listen to and make me look like a nutter while I laugh alone.
But in Paris...everyone's a bit mental.

Love

Reception du Magic Circus, c'est Giulia bonjouuur !

2012-06-24T17:00:00.001+02:00

Hello My Lovelies,

Alright here we go, first blog post on my new job !
I must admit that at first I felt majorly lost, everyone talking in French to me and thinking I was stupid since I understood quite well but never said more than "oui". But now 4 days later I'm getting the hang of it, the girl who is training me did her internship there too, she's quite cool and funny but sadly leaving in a few days but the crew at the reception is quite cool, I like the people I work with and French is getting easier everyday :) check-ins, arrivals, city taxes, group keys and phone calls are not a problem anymore. Although the biggest problem is always the phone, especially if the person is speaking French, in that case most of the time I call someone to take it for me cause people mumble and I'm having my troubles even with understanding properly spoken french haha.

What I love the most is when I'm sitting at the concierge table (thing I shouldn't technically do) and people come to ask informations about he park, Paris an surrounding areas :) I like that cause I can help and I know insider things about Disneyland :) Yesterday evening a little boy came to me while I was at that table and gave me sweets :) adorable !! I really like the Italian guests, they trust me and prefer to talk to me over others who aren't trainees only cause I can talk properly to them :) there's one girl, I think she left now, who every time she came back in the evening shouted "bonsoooooooir giulia" super sweet :) but it's not all roses and flowers (Italian idiom translated to English) sometimes we do have rubbish and rude guests who blame you for things that are absolutely not in our control, but well if it was only nice people the day would be boring and as a matter of fact the days when we're the busiest with horrible guests are those that just fly by :)

Now I have the weekend off and next week I'm working everyday from 3pm it's quite alright it's calmer than working in the morning although I don't like that I lose almost all of the day but that's my fault since I'm not a morning person otherwise I could do quite a few things before heading off to work.

Well here that was the first summary of the first days at work :) I hope this will be helpful for myself for when I have ti write my report about the internship for uni :)

Anyway goodbye my lovelies ! If you happen to be in Disneyland anytime soon don't forget to drop by and say hi :)

Love

Home.

2012-06-16T21:52:00.002+02:00

Super quick/nostalgic post :)

Video made at my school, it's absolutely adorable I love it soooo much !!

Thanks to Chris for making this.

Love

Graduating: Take 1 !

2012-06-15T20:23:00.000+02:00

Hello My Lovelies,

Here I am, writing from my little shared flat in Paris.

Me and Nefeli, volunteering.

But more about that in another post :)

So 2 days ago I graduated from first year !!!

Can I give you a programme Sir/Madam ?

It was such an amazing experience, so me and Nefeli volunteered to help out during the preparation, tbh they could have done it without us but whatever it felt nice and I was there 2-3 hours before the actual thing started.
We placed brochures on tables and I had the oh so important job of closing the door after all the lecturers did their entrance.

Later on we took some photos outside, I took photos with people I almost never talk to, but in the end (literally) we all love each other hehe.

The entrance was so major awkward and depressing, a very slow asian-y song started playing that just makes you want to cry, I will try to find it and post it.
After all the lecturers entered, I had to close the friggin door and walk to my place, this was major awkward because "Why the hell is a student walking in, to the music, behind all the lecturers ?" hahaha ah well I had my moment.

None of them are my classmates.

Then everything was pretty quick, since I was first year and we were only 5 in our class to have passed the year we went on stage got our piece of paper and went back to enjoy the show. Everyone got their pieces of paper (I don't call them diplomas cause one of the years is called Diploma) the BA students got their special red and blue throws on and then came the "Award ceremony" there are a few special awards in our school, Best student in each year, most committed to help students, best in 4 semesters, highest amount of Personal Attitude marks and best newcomer.

Poledancer with a Certificate ;)

While best newcomer was being described I told my friend next to me that no one of our class suits that and I was really wondering who might get it.. seconds later... my name ! I felt like crying. I almost did, I swear I never have been this happy.
It's an award for the most committed to the principles of hospitality and tourism and the most promising in this industry :) I'm so super happy !!

They're so sweet even though I hardly know them :)

Anyway afterwards more photos outside, I really wish my parents came, because next year i'm sure not to get an award haha.
Then we moved to the "after party" in a little place with a stage, some random guy then came up to me to ask if I wanted to help give out the medals for sports day, and when I say I do all sorts of sh** at this school, I really mean it. I didn't even wake up for sports day but sure, shake hands with the winners and give out the medals and trophies ;)

In the night we all went out for a last club night together, the club literally ONLY had people from my school :) It was a lot of fun, I turn really stupid when tipsy, I hugged everyone like I actually cared haha but it was nice to say goodbye. Sadly I didn't get to say goodbye to some people I would have really liked to greet, but well.. sh** happens.
I already miss the school and the people. I really hope to stay in touch with some of my closest friends there :) Aside from Franzi and Nefeli, because I'm sure we will stay friends :D

Anyway now I'm here to start a new adventure. Internship months in Paris, France.

Love

PS: credit for the photos goes to Chris.

Disneyland Paris Checklist of Secrets.

2012-05-24T14:25:00.001+02:00

Hello My Lovelies,

approaching the Disney experience from a different point of view soon I made a checklist for myself of things I want to do and see.

~Photo Checklist:
-Mickey
-Minnie
-Pluto
-Donald
-Mary Poppins !!!!
-Princess Tiana
-Princess Rapunzel
-Bert
-Peter Pan
-Clarice
-Remy
-Stitch
-any other figure I can find but those are the most important to me.

~Park "Secrets"
-Phone in the "Market House Deli"
-Moustache at Dapper Dans
-Fairies in "La confiserie des trois fées"
-Phone in Town Square Photography
-Phone in Dapper Dans
-Toad Hall moving pictures
-Dome in Harrington's
-Huge Egg in Adventureland

~Never done attractions
-Playhouse Disney Live
-Meet Mickey
-Take the art class at Art of Disney Animation.
-Orbitron ?
-Robinson Family Tree (haven't been there almost 15yrs)
-Cars ride in Disney Studios.

Also last time I was there I had a little project in mind, very little and it will be mainly on my flickr hopefully also on youtube but mainly flickr :) We shall see !!

Have a magical day.

Love

Ps. credit for the photo goes to: http://caryandemily.wordpress.com/category/disney/

LUSH reviews of a normal human being part 3.

2012-05-13T23:55:00.002+02:00

Hello My Lovelies,

so here we are again with the 3rd LUSH product review blog. I know it's not your favourite kind but it's what I write when I have nothing interesting to talk about, and I think it's quite helpful for those who want to try Lush the first time.

Catastrophe Cosmetics Face Mask:

I bought this mask during a period of pimple blooming like no other haha this was supposed to calm the skin and make it more radiant and reduce pimple size etc.

This mask has a lovely lovely lovely blueberry smell, it's like you're putting berry yogurt on your face. Regarding the result.. meh.. it didn't do any "wonders" for my skin so.. I wouldn't get it again.

Imperialis Face Cream:

There's quite a love/hate relationship with this cream. I think it's absolutely perfect for winter, it's quite rich and a little goes a very long way !

The lenght of "life" of this product isn't too long so the little 45gr jar is quite a bit too much for like a month of life. I'm keeping it in the fridge 24/7 so it's quite a bit better but all in all it's a bit too much product.

Lately I've been mixing it with foundation to create a sort of tinted moisturizer, coverage is not the best but I quite like the result.

The purpose of the cream is to mainly calm the skin, it's made with lavender (like Fresh Pharmacy) so it's quite matching. At first I didn't like it but now I love it to bits !! Definitely worth a buy. Although it might be too rich for oily skins and during summer.

Ocean Salt Scrub:

Ingrid (missglamorazzi) has been raving about this on youtube all the friggin time so I decided to finally give in and buy this body/face scrub.

It's main purpose is to be a FACE scrub, but being made with big salt chunks I think it's a bit too aggressive therefore I've been using it on my elbows and knees, it does leave the skin soft but very red afterwards, I rubbed very gently but I always got this result so, for me it's a no. My friend Franziska also bought this and she's not too impressed either. So if you got sensitive skin DON'T buy this.

It Started With A Kiss Lip Tint:

I absolutely love love love this !!! Lately I've been obsessed with orange/corally lip colours (Mac's Vegas Volt <3) so I had to get this one. To be honest when you open it it looks like a water colour, if you actually figure out how to open it. It took 3 bartenders at starbucks and later on actually the Lush shop assistant to open it. In the end it's quite easy just twist but it's closed VERY tightly at first. The colour is very lovely on the lips and OMG the smell !!!! I have no idea how to explain it but I love it so friggin much !!!

In the picture it looks more pinkish but it's definitely a red leaning towards orange. Definitely gonna buy this again in like 10 years when it's finished ;)

Jasmine & Henna Fluff Eaze Hair Mask:

Lush hair masks are always supposed to put into DRY hair which was always kind of off-putting, so this time I decided to put it into damp/wet hair and the results are waaaay better !! First of all you use like 5% of the product instead of the usual 30% for one mask ! Then since this one leaves the hair rather greasy because of the "anti-flyaway" purpose, I would never use it on dry hair. One suggestion, if you use this before straightening your hair it's gonna be horrible, your hair will look greasy and heavy, whereas if you have natural curls and let your hair air dry then the locks will be perfect. I've been doing this for the past weeks on both straight and curls and the curls are just amazing, soft and bouncy. The smell is a bit strong, it smells quite a lot like baby wipes and it stays for 2 days, but it's not very bad. Not sure if I'll buy this again, maybe for the summer time.

Love Lettuce Face Mask:

Ladies and Gentleman !

I found my favourite Lush product !!!!!!!!!!!!

This mask is THE BOMB !!!

It's absolutely amazing, it doesn't promise any miracles just to brighten up your face and hell yeah it really does it's job.

I might be biased since my favourite colour is green and this mask happens to be an amazing green, but the smell of lavender is perfect for my face routine since it matches both my cleanser AND my moisturizer. The texture of the mask is a very light scrub, you put it on an you can feel the granules, when you wash it off you rub your skin and you will shine as bright as the sun. It's really amazing ! I love it to bits, nuff said !!

This is it :) Next time I go to Lush (probably tomorrow) I get a 25CHF gift card :) it's a bit of a p-take but whatever free lush money is free lush money :)

I only plan on buying one thing tomorrow since I stocked up on pretty much everything. I want to buy the Ro's Argan. The shopgirl did my hand with that stuff once and I couldn't stop sniffing my hand all day, I looked like a weirdo on the bus home haha.

We'll see.

Love

Dark Shadows Premiere in Zurich.

2012-05-09T20:53:00.000+02:00

Hello My Lovelies,

in german we say "Ein blindes Huhn findet auch mal ein korn" which translates to "A blind hen also finds a corn sometimes" or something like that. Meaning that woohooo even a person like me is lucky from time to time. So, I take part in loads of contests but only now I finally won something. One day Franzi came to me running and said that I got a letter from this german telly channel and well I won 2 tickets to the premiere :)

Yesterday was the day of the premiere, Franzi was driving, technically from our school to Zurich it's 45 minutes... if you don't get lost ehm.. thank god we left with quite some time in advance. Anyway we found to the cinema and it was beautiful such a nice place, outside were poles from the tv channel and inside a red carpet and a little scenario with a casket and mud and all sorts of thingys and also a big red throne where you could take photos.

Who'd have known they'd have something like this.. my dress was more than clashing xD

After walking on the red carpet there was a little cocktail and some finger food waiting for us, sadly the actors weren't there but it was nice anyway.

The cocktail looked like bubbling blood, it was whiskey + cranberry juice + dry ice. Don't get fooled by people telling you that dry ice doesn't change the taste of a drink. Here at school during several events I had cocktails with dry ice and there is ALWAYS a particular taste, it's far from being overwhelming or disgusting but it's there and if you know it, you can taste it. Aside from that the drink was pretty neat.

Before the movie started we were all handed some free popcorn in a little bucket. I got Victoria Winters and Franzi got Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter) but in the end we switched haha so now I own Helena, my love.

This awaited us inside the theatre.

Now.. about the movie !!!

First of all it was GREAT ! I'm going to be very personal here and not talk about the story and spoil anything so it's just a few thoughts I had about it.

Being produced by Tim Burton made it have that typical style that is known among his movies, the special colours and yikes actors haha.

Personally I thought it was going to be a lot funnier, but sadly it wasn't. Really unexpected was that the movie is mainly set in the 70s, which gave it an amazing soundtrack that I absolutely want to have. Amazing was also the appearance of Alice Cooper, performing !

The story itself was sometimes quite confusing but it could also depend on the fact that the movie was shown in english with german AND french subtitles, this was incredibly annoying but then in a country which speaks 3 languages it's a quite normal thing... you should see the medical information leaflets here..almost the size of a newspaper.

Anyway I don't really have much to say about it, besides that I absolutely want to see it again, without subtitles haha. It's a must see. Forget Edward Cullen, Johnny Depp is the new vampire... and... little spoiler... forget Jacob Black too... there's a new Werewolf in town ;)

This was it, premiere over, movie over. Go watch it and make your own opinion about it.

Love

Mickey Mouse, my next employer.

2012-05-05T18:04:00.000+02:00

Hello My Lovelies,

for those of you who follow me on twitter or know me IRL this post wont bear many news, for those of you who don't... well.. read this while sitting down :)

Last tuesday (24th) I was supposed to have a phone interview with the Vienna International Paris hotels. Since tuesdays are my days off I decided to get really ready for this interview, you know you kinda gotta "study" the places you might work for just in case they ask you what you know about the hotel. So, the interview was set for 12.00 noon, I was starting to get nervous at 12, since the HR manager didn't call, 13 still no call, 14 no call, 15 I give up and leave to go to town. Majorly pissed off I asked the head of career department what I should do. On Friday during our most boring class I was on FB *cough cough* and decided to call the HR department afterwards. I called and.. nope, once again out of luck, I left my number to the girl who answered me and hoped for the best.

3 o'clock in the afternoon, phone rings, french number, an english speaking guy with a VERY strong french accent starts to interview me (finally) for Vienna International. All together the interview lasted around 7 minutes and it went incredibly smoothly.

All of this to say that...

I'm gonna work for The Mouse !

So this is my amazing news :) I'm not completely working for Disneyland since the hotel I will be working in isn't fully a Disney hotel but still. I'm going to be a castmember, I'm going to have the benefits of being that and also I'm gonna live in the castmember accommodations !!!! I'm so super excited !!! I was quite honest with the HR manager and told him that I've never been to this hotel but of course this is going to be fantastic cause it's going to be completely new, yet, most of the guests are going to visit Disneyland and about that... well... ask me every detail starting from 1992 and I will be able to help you ;) I'm gonna work in Front Office, for those who don't study hotel management, it means standing at the Reception ! (I'm not offending here... I didn't know what Front Office was before I came here) The hotel is all in the style of a Circus, hence the name Magic Circus, and my uniform kinda resembles the one of a Circus Director :)

I'm gonna start working there very very early, usually internships start in july, some in august. Mine.. starts pretty much right after my graduation. I graduate june 13th, train to Paris june 14th and my job starts on the 18th :D But I don't mind.. I think a break would just make me lazy ! I really can't wait to meet my new roommate, because I'm going to share a 2 people flat with someone. Yayy !!!!

I will try to post as often as possible, I'm really excited to live all the way through 6 months of Disneyland Paris' 20th anniversary, I will live through Halloween AND Christmas :) I will live the opening of "The World of Disney Store" and I believe many many other cool things. So if you're interesting in hearing all the news straight from the source, follow this blog !!

Follow your dreams, they will eventually come true (or almost ^_~).

Love and Hugs