Happy "expensive chocolate and flowers" day !!

Hello My Lovelies,

so today was valentine's day. I walked down in a horrible mood, caused by a very stupid argument I had last night. But 2 hours into my school day, Nick and Ales told me I got elected SRC :) I still can't believe it.. I probably wrote it everywhere but fact is.. I seriously can't believe it. 

After that I had another 2 hours of french class and during the break our teacher spoke to me in french and... to be honest I understood her quite well and could tell her things rather well to, I impressed myself. She asked if I requested to change course, I told her I didn't since it would have clashed with my timetable and knew it wouldn't have changed anything, an hour later she came back with the teacher who organises the language classes... luckily this guy is belgian so he spoke in french to me and realised that apparently my french is better than what they learn in the advanced class... I highly doubt so, I can literally feel my lacks of knowledge and I told him that, he suggested periodical meetings so that we can speak in french and he will give me some sort of homework but besides that I will work on it by myself too. 


Today I had the special lunch and to be honest it was really nice :) we were 10 students and 4 "important guys from school" xD One was the headmaster and the 3 others work in administration. We had a nice chat and the lunch was to die for :)

The dessert was so cute and delishhh.. we had it for dinner again, luckily. It would have been embarassing to take a photo at the lunch table :)

After that, since I had an exemption from french class I was free for 2 hours and during those 2 hours I had a skype convo with the person I had an argument yesterday evening and things are back to normal again :) and also I got a valentine's day box :) It contained a cupcake and some truffles, all delicious, sadly the person I got the box from wasn't who I was hoping for but he's a friend of mine so it was a very nice gesture :)

After that, my least fave class... and then some extra work for PA marks :) Was actually easy peasy :D

Then a nice moment with Mr. X., me and Juli decided to call him like that, since the walls have ears. Nice moment wasn't enough though and I should definitely follow my gut feeling more often, cause what I was thinking was sure to happen, actually happened. So if I did what I was thinking I should do, by know he'd know. 

Not sure if this makes sense xD It actually sounds rather complicated, it's definitely not but whatever :)

So this was today !!! Better than I expected, mainly cause me and my friend solved that argument... it made me feel bad.. and I don't like that :)

Tomorrow I have service class... hope I get MDH tomorrow and most importantly I hope Ms. H. decides to mix the groups so it will be much more fun even if I happen to get the restaurant tomorrow. 

Anyway that's it for today.
Have a nice night.


Love
Julie x

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Confidence and Valentine's Day suicides.

Hello My Lovelies,

another post from the country of chocolate and cheese, of which I had none yet... WHERE’S MY CHEESE FLAVOURED CHOCOLATE ???????

Anyway... days go by, the more I’m at the this school the more I realise, that I’m not as stupid as my school in Italy made me believe, I’m really happy about that.

Especially today, we have this peculiar class called “Personal Development Planning” and it’s about developing and discovering yourself and improving and whatnot, I really like that class, mainly cause the teacher’s scottish and I really could listen to him for a million years and yup I believe I already wrote that sometime. Anyway today he asked us to set up 2 personal, 2 academical and 1 internship goals. This proved to be more difficult than I thought... mainly cause there had to be a way to “measure” that. At one point I was stuck, I had 1 personal and 1 academical and the internship one (more about those later)... and then the teacher came and asked if I was done or needed help.. I told him that I was thinking about putting “Being less shy” as personal goal, even though I didn’t really know how to measure that, and in that moment he told me something that, once again, cheered me up so much !!!
Basically when he started talking to me, I started to flush so I indicated my face to show that “THAT” should stop.. anyway he told me that from what he saw he doesn’t think that I’m shy at all and that I seem to be rather confident, which made me really happy... cause I feel like a 3 year old when I walk around. Anyway to have a way to “measure” that, he suggested that I should apply to become Student Representative for our year... strange was that a lot of people agreed :) So many things are happening at this school that I would have never thought would happen to me, I was so pointless, useless and unknown at my old school... I can’t really believe it :)

Anyway I did it, I applied, now I shall wait.

Regarding the other goals, I tried to keep them simple and POSSIBLE.
Personal: Try to get to the end of the year without spilling anything or breaking any plates or glasses. About that... people don’t realise how immensly clumsy I am, in those 3 weeks I already fell down the stairs 5 times.. and none of those times involved heels. I spilled so many things.. it’s not even funny. So this is going to be a tough one :)

Then of course the SRC one.
Academical: Get at least 80% in French and get 200 PA marks by the end of the semester... should be doable.. I already have 110 :) 

Regarding the internship one... I settled down on the fact that I’d like to become head of housekeeping, so I put down “Get a job in the housekeeping department of the Kempinski in Geneva”... we shall see :)

Besides that, not much else to say... tomorrow is valentine’s day, also known as “Giulia’s Yearly Suicidal Thoughts Day”. What I wished would happen, sadly didn’t so... whatever, another year as single. In the end you can moan as much as you want about valentine’s day but  actually if you have a partner don’t say you wouldn’t appreciate a nice dinner and whatnot, that day. Some extra attention is always nice.

I almost forgot... the school organised a lunch for CMHT group 2 (which would be me) tomorrow... so that's my valentine's day thingy hahahaha

That would be it for today, nothing much interesting going to happen later. I'm gonna indulge on some Lush stuff. Hair mask and shampoo bar.. maybe a face mask just to be even more pretty ( HA HA HA ) for Valentine's day.

Lots of Love (from me if you're single ;) 

Julie x

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Memoires of a waitress

Hello My Lovelies,


week 2 in the swiss hotel school is in course. So many different, strange, great things happened here. I'm really having a good time :)
I made some really good friends, mostly males... you know why ? We figured out I'm a tomboy xD Nah just kidding... let's just say I'm through with female drama... I have 3 girl friends and about 10 guy friends... and I don't mind hanging out just with the guys. 


I met all my teachers by now.. can't complain really... just the subject which, so far got me the most information, has a pretty annoying teacher. But besides that.. I like them all, and I actually look forward to every lesson... maybe not really Beverage studies but yeh xD


We have this class called "Food and Beverage" and it involves serving teachers and students either in the school's restaurant or in the cafeteria. The restaurant is quite a quiet place, not many tables, but it's rather boring. Cafeteria is a madhouse, especially when the "rush hour" starts. Today I had service in the cafeteria with 3 other girls, snob 1, snob 2 and "meh". 
So... we are studying "HOSPITALITY" which means we need to be hospital a.k.a. friendly and welcoming, I'm not joking when I say I have not seen those girls smile once. When the head of housekeeping assigned us stations to start with I got the teacher's table, in other words fill up glasses, pick up dirty plates and eventually serve hot drinks, not a bad job.. but it can be stressing cause it's very narrow there and you can't always serve like you should but whatever; usually after some time, we rotate stations... so the three girls working in the kitchen, washing plates were supposed to take my job and also serve student's tables, but apparently, according to the head of housekeeping, I was doing my job so well that the girls were to stay in the kitchen. Didn't mind AT ALL. Last time I think I spent 3 hours after the service, cleaning plates, polishing and putting everything away. 
During my service I did a few mistakes but all teachers are so nice, I couldn't help but smile anyway.. and there was a short moment during which I was thinking I was doing everything wrong.. and in this moment our "Psychology" teacher looked at me and said "You're doing well, just keep smiling" and that cheered me up a lot.. I think he's got super powers ;) not to mention a scottish accent. 
Anyway after this very stressing lunch, head of housekeeping told me I did very well... and made me hated even more by my group mates... but whatever. 
Snob 1 and snob 2 can go screw themselves and "meh" is just meh... she never speaks and when she does you have to ask 5 times "What ?" to get what she said cause she's ridiculously shy.


Every weekend it's law that you have to be drunk and/or high all 3 days.. which is a bit too much for my short self. Last friday I could barely walk by myself so I decided to be very antisocial saturday and sunday xD because I just can't take it.




I made a bunch of good friends here, mostly guys but you already knew that.. and it's so strange, it's such a different world here. Back home everyone knew me and my "past" and I have a feeling I had a strange reputation there but here, like some teachers said, we have a blank page therefore.. no one knows me. I have a feeling that here they like me, if they like me, for who I am. I the same weirdo as before but people appreciate it.. weirdly enough :) 


Anyway..enough with emotional crap... let's talk about Munich !!! 10th of March, my school... or some of us... is going to Munich to meet "Kempinski Hotels" at a convention, hopefully I'll find a job opportunity at the Kempinski in Geneva, there :) would be so fabulous to have my first proper job in a 5* hotel :) Even only in housekeeping... I wouldn't even mind. Anyway we'll see :)


Besides that I have nothing new... it annoys me that my thoughts are so discontinued but yeh... too much to think about !


Hope you're all doing well.
Best wishes and lots of love


Julie x

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