Back to the Swiss Life.

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

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Au revoir 2012, bienvenue 2013 !

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:

1.  Write in the diary every work or school day (FAIL)
2. 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)
3.  Get to 60 or 58 (FAIL, yet I managed to keep my weight all the way through the year)
4. Make more interesting videos (FAIL, I gave up my youtube career)
5. Keep in touch with one special person (FAIL randomly but not much..)
6. Get good grades (WIN well... kinda..)
7. Buy from vintage stores to save money (FAIL !!!!!!! Especially the saving money bit)
8. 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)
9. Keep learning dutch (WIN as in I kept doing it a bit.. enough to check people in)
10. Rewatch all of "Friends" (WIN I did.. and... re-did)
11. Get more active (FAIL ! Besides random outbursts of energy I hardly did anything)
12. 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.

1. Eat Less
2. Get back into running.
3. Say YES more often.
4. Learn and USE my Canon camera (maybe finally sell that huge lens to get a smaller one ?)
5. Keep in touch with my ex colleagues.
6. 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

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

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 

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