Batizado 2009

I'm so happy with today. I woke up around half past eight. The sun was shining. I went to CHampion and bought some breakfast. I sat on the terasse and had my petit dejeuner tranquille...
11:30 I went to stade de Caubertin where the Batizado was gonna be. This years batizado was sooooo much better! A brazilian music band was playing, we danced samba, it was GREAT! I got my white-orange corde. It felt like this years Batizado past by way faster than last year. Like it wasn't as boring waiting for everyone to get their corde. (For everyone that doesn't know what the hell I'm talking about: Every year all capoeira groups have their Batizado, which means you get baptized. You get your nickname, and you get graded, the teachers play with you and give you a corde, which corresponds to your level, kind of. I haven't been very into capoeira this year, It's just been the last past weeks that I've been coming like 2 times a week. I was a bit unsure if I was gonna get upgraded, but I did. I felt a bit bad though, because Juliana, that has a really good level, and has been very devoted to the association and helped out a lot, got the same cord as me, which isn't very fair. So as Fernando (one of the teachers) said to me it's all the same, it doesn't really mean anything, the cords are just there to hold up your pants.
I hope I will be able to continue the classes next year. But before that I still have the whole summer with lots of capoeira in the parc!
I need to rest my body, and certainly my arm, I think Fernando twisted it in a weird way.

An awesome and tiring day

Today I had a great day at work, although I walked around as a ghost, but everybody were awesome, it was a good ambiance, it was just nice!
I asked Thibault to finish earlier today, the capoeira people had a workshop/picknick at Champs de Mars. The workshop has actually been going on the whole week, but I was too lazy to go. Five teachers from Brazil are here holding all the classes. Today the advanced students got to learn Ju-Jitsu/self defense. It was really fun, and I got to learn a lot which will help me get more secure walking alone in the dark in Bois de Vincennes :S
I need to go to bed now. I'm so tired. Yesterday I met Alison and Moa for the first time in two years. Alison's family moved to Paris and she is going to stay here for some weeks, and Moa just visited. We walked around on Ile de Cité and had ice cream, it was a lot of people outside having picnik last night. But that also caused me not sleeping very much last night. So I need to do it tonight, so I will keep up the energy for tomorrow.
Bonne nuit!

The posters for Angelin Preljocaj's Blanche Neige is all over Paris Metro, and I really want to see the performance!!! It's gonna be in Chateau de Versaille the 1st of July. Have to remember to go to FNAC and reserve the tickets..!
...and they are wearing costumes made by Jean Paul Gaultier that I really wanna see too.

What else has happened on my side of the planet: Paris has gone from superhot and humid to winter again. It's unbelievable how the climate is changing. Sunday I burned my but from lying on the terasse in bikini, and now I'm wearing my combatboots that I wore this winter.

Today I finaly got one step further with my dress that I'm gonna wear for Cissi's wedding. It's gonna turn out pretty nice I think (I hope) It has to, fabrics in Paris are very expensive, so I don't really have afford to make any mistakes right now :P
I'll post some pictures on the dress tomorrow, right now it's wrinkled down in a plastic bag. I fell asleep as soon as I got home this afternoon, and I woke up around midnight, so I didn't really have time to take the photos this evening.

I'm just gonna be lying a bit more sleepless, getting distressed of starting school next year. I don't know how I will make it, especially with the french and everything. Ugh...I just saw the fashion show from FIDM, and it's so big, I got really inspired. I was actually thinking about applying, but it's too american style for me. I don't know if I could handle the whole LA fashion industry. I mean fashion industry in general is not me, wait, remind me why i'm doing this again. Even though I think it's easier to get good publicity in the US, I'm glad I ended up staying in Paris for school, it feels a bit more down to earth, and not too influenced by media. I need to try to go to bed now. Big Kiss.

Paris a chaud!

Paris is HOT right now. And not to mention my room on the attic! I will not be able to sleep.

Bollywood dancing

I can't stop watching Joshua and Katee. I just feel like dancing everytime I see them dance. I don't think they would be that good alone, it's just because they work so good together as a couple, and I love the choreograhpy.

Yesterday I was surprised. My flatmates had thrown together a party. I came home around midnight, and heard loud music coming from somewhere. And it grew louder as I came closer to our house. They had decorated the terasse with candles and had put on iranian music. It was really pretty.

TOday I just worked from 11 to 19. It was so calm today, really nice actually.

Right now I need to get started with the Local Motors competition :P
I really need to try to do it.

Birthday dinner

Yesterday I was invited for a dinner Baptiste and Esther had organized as a birthday dinner for me. It was really nice. I even got my birthcake with candles! LOL

It's 6:30, and I need to get ready to go to work :P I'm gonna fall asleep on the way but that's fine. I will be done around noon, so I'll just go home and sleep after that!
Tonight I suggested to my dear friends that we go to La Cordonnerie for free couscous, it was gonna be a brunch on my terasse, but I looked at the meteo today and it showed a big lightning, so maybe not :P

Tuileries in the sun

I feel very dizzy from the afternoon in the Tuileries. It was nice though. For a really long time we haven't had sun, but today it finaly came, so me, Vincent and Camille sat down at the Tuileries to get some sun.

Today I woke up by a message from CAF saying: You have to declare your salary before the 29th of May!!!
Aah!! so I got up, I sat in front of the computer the whole morning soulsearching about how to declare your salary. I'm still not sure, but I'm just gonna go to the place des impôts and see what they have to say. Although I only have a week to do it, so.....!!!!
I wanted to cry this morning, and had a few tears coming on my way to work, so i thought today was gonna be one of those cry-tiring days. But when I came to work, Memo was there and made me laugh so hard. So sad he is gonna leave, so sad...:(
BUT I mean I didn't get away from the fact that I actually had to do a mistake today.
I accidentaly tapped in 87,00€ on the creditcard machine instead of 8,70€. The stupid thing was I noticed I tapped the 0 twice, but I was like: hmm, something doesn't look right here, well, it doesn't matter, it doesn't make a difference.
So the client tapped the code, and then she was like no wait a minute it's 87, instead of 8,7 €! So she didn't even noticed until after. Anyways, I handed her back the amount in cash, so no bigger damage caused. She was a very kind client too so I was lucky!
Bisou bisou xxx

Bruised Lee

After been having the skinniest and talest guy as a partner in advanced capoeira, left half of my body is totaly bruised. It hurts......!!!

I just wanna cry. buhuuu....

This whole day I've just wanted to cry. The whole day. During work I wanted to smash a plate up a customers face, they just treat you like their servants and think it can help putting a stupid grin on their face....:S
Then I take Anjinho's class, and realize I suck, and have lost the base of my training...the worse thing is I DON*T CARE more than he do. I just do it for fun, and am not planning on becoming an elite in capoeira, but when people say they are disappointed, I start to doubt myself, and ask why I'm not working harder.
...I'm trying to find a good thing that happened today...I can't. Well yeah, the sun was out...
I woke up at 10:00 am. I worked for only 3 hours, and still when I got home after work, I went to sleep and felt like shit...I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't drink, I don't smoke, I eat good, I exercise (a lot!), I have wonderful friends, great family, and I still feel exhausted, like I'm always out of energy. I don't know why this is.
I need to go and see a shrink soon. Not because I think I have a major problem or think that he/she will be able to help me, but I'm just curious about what he/she would say about me. I've always been curious to see one, I think it's interesting to see myself from another perspective, and it feels better if a professional who doesn't know me talks about me, than a friend who actually knows me, feels more unpersonal...I was just talking BS there....I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm just gonna take a shower and watch desperate housewives and go to bed, lol. BON NUIT mes amours!

La nuit des musées

Tonight is La Nuit Des Musées. I was at Beaubourg tonight. A lot of museums are open til 2 am tonight, and it's free! So all of Paris took advantage of it!


Watching a film of the circus that the american artist/engineer Alexander Calder created (between 1926 and 1931) out of small figures he had made out of recycled materials, animated by simple mechanisms.


I really liked theese sculptures by Nikki de Saint Phalle.
The crucifixion and... I don't remember the name of the other one that looks like a bride.




A guy working at the museum trying to tell the story behind a piece of art called Udnie by Francis Picabia, 1913.
Then some random man comes out from nowhere saying:
(the random man)-Hey! I saw your other colleagues talking about other paintings as well!!!...
(Guy working at the museum)- Ok, well...anyways...
-No! I just wanna say that all the stuff you say is BULLSHIT! You are not telling the truth!!!
Other people keep telling the man to shut up and let the guy talk about the piece of art.
(the man):No, but why are you listening to all this BULLSHIT!!
people laughing
(the guy): No, ok, let's hear what this man has to say about the art.
(the old man): Well, its...paint and form.
people keep laughing.
An old lady leaves saying:-Can you please just let the young man talk and say what he was going to say. You're boring us out!
(the old man): Well, I prefer to tell you all the truth and bore you out than just let this man talk about a bunch of crap!
another man: Can You just let us hear what he has to say, we don't care...
the old man: IT'S EXACTLY THAT, That is the problem! You don't care! I bet you're just doing this to get paid(looking at the guy working at the museum) but I can't listen to you talking about contemporary art, I'm out of hear.
So people expect the young man to continue talk about the painting. And he says:
-Well, I guess we need to keep circulating.
And people still just stood there waiting for him to talk more about the painting.
-No, actually there is no more, it was set up.

So FUCKING LAME!




Paris Beaubourg by night.

think pink

Too tired to sleep

OMG, I just came home from a capoeira class. We did a roda outside of Montparnasse. It was great. They all did a birthday roda for me and Motoristo. Really tiring. I'm definitely getting sick. I played barefeet on the ground, and it was a bit cold :P But oh well, it only happens once a year. I just have to give a shout-out to all the capoerists, mes amours!
I'm trying to sleep now, because I have to wake up at 6h tomorrow morning, but I don't really manage too. I'm gonna re-try.

Bon nuit mec!

May, the month of births

I just logged in on Facebook and saw the list of all my friends' upcoming birthdays. I swear every day in May is a birthday for someone I know. Hilarious...:)
My sewing class was cancelled today because of a water leak, no wonder, yesterday I thought it was the end of Paris existence, looked like it was gonna disappear under water because it was pooring rain . Kind of cosy actually :)

sleepless

How is it possible to be sleepy but not tired?
I've been walking around like a ghost the whole day today. I slept the whole way to and from work in the metro. I almost fell asleep watching the swedish news around 19h, but forced myself to stay awake, just so that I would be able to sleep now. But NO, now I can't sleep.

I feel so ignored...:(

I tried to get in contact with CAF today. Because I've been writing them letters, I've been e-mailing them, and now I decided to call them. But how can they just hang up on you like that. I feel so dissed...HATE CAF 4-ever is all I have to say.

I don't know what to think

SOmeone showed me this video a couple of years ago. It's a co work between fashion designer Issey Miyake and choreographer William Forsythe. I love the music, but I think the clothes are horrible, and it all looks like a music video from the 80's. It reminds me of a Michael Jackson music video or something close.
But I would love to use dancers as models for my work. Seriously, I don't know how models can be so demanded in the fashion business. Dancers have the bodies and the charisma on stage AND they know how to move. Sometimes I look at a fashionshow, and the people just bore me to death. Dancers are multitasking people!

My package arrived!

Yey, I came home from work with exitement. My packages from Laredoute were waiting for me, I've now tried the sewing machine and put together the mannequin which so far everything works splendid!
I wish I could stay at home and sew a bit, but I've only had time to watch the dvd manual and try a few stitches. The dvd manual is gonna help me a lot, there are so many functions on this machine I don't know how to use, AND it explains really well (with an american cheeky accent :) LOL
Anyways, I'm off to yoga class now!

cold is back

Somehow I caught a cold last night. So now I have a runny nose and my throat hurts. It's raining outside, is the summer coming EVER???

another drawing

Fotball game between COJEAN family

Can't believe I even bothered going to the fotball game between all the COJEAN restaurants. It took me, Gito and Vincent ages to get there, because it was really far away and complicated to get there, then we finaly got there and didn't give a damn about the game and just felt weird, SO we left right after Madeleine lost the final against Haussmann....!!
Then we had McDonalds at Opera, because we were all hungry but no supermarkets were open, and now I know why I never eat there, I just feel sick. BLÄ!

This is an ad for malo that I drew this morning. i'm finaly getting my hands on my WACOM tablet again. It was a bit dusty I have to admit.

Buying plastic

I don't understand people who buys plastic bags for the garbage bin. It's so not necessary. I mean we have like tons of plasticbags lying around in the kitchen, and Marion tells me to buy plastic bags for the garbage. Such a waste.
One of her reasons was that otherwise we would have to change the bags more often, and everybody would be to lazy taking them out, so it would just lie around in the kitchen. Well, that would mean no change in this case. Everybody are alraedy too lazy taking them out...

Capoeira+summer= :)

OMG, I just feel sooo good. Now when it gets warmer outside we go out and play on the streets of Paris. It's so fun, I wish I could always feel like I feel now....
Well, I can't. I need to take a shower, shouldn't go to bed with my hair that's been sweeping the streets outside Montparnasse. And I need to go to bed because I have to be at work 08:00 tomorrow :P

school of Fame

Stumbled upon this video on http://viewon.com and saw first that there was dancers in the video and then saw that it was Adina Fohlin that went to the Royal Swedish Balletschool. (You have to scroll down to se the video)
It's not this video I'm talking about.

Then I saw this video from Alexander McQueen's Campaign, I love the music by Jon Mann.

work space

Cool friend :)

I'm disappointed! I talk to Tookie on MSN and we both think about what we can do, because we're both free today. But wait a minute, he has been free for a week, and he is not in Paris???
Anyways, I can't be mad because I have a cool friend with streetsyle! ;) (a daily newspaper in ZÜRICH)

Ça y est! I ordered the machine and the mannequin, and just hope I'll be able to live through the month of may...!!!

I thought I was gonna stay awake this morning and work. But I ended up watching the "An American Girl In Paris"-episodes of Sex and The City and fell asleep.
I seriosuly think that Paris is a city for masochists, everything that happends in that episodes is so true, the pessimistic french people, the loneliness.
But the thing is that you have to go through all of that, and after a while it really does get better. And when You've gotten through that stage, it's a great place to live in. Maybe it's not just Paris, I think it's hard to comee to a big city in general. But dealing with the french society when you don't really speak the language is tough.
Sometimes I feel that I should have gone to New York instead, but then I keep thinking, no I can't just throw away everything I've built up here. So New York will just have to wait! But I'm going there though...

I'm thinking about buying a sewingmachine and a mannequin, but it's hard to know what brand to buy and where to buy it. But I think I've made up my mind. I think I'm gonna buy it on LaRedoute. I didn't order it yet, because I'm trying to find out if it's possible to get it delivered to a boutique instead so I can pick it up, otherwise I'll miss it.

8 May 1945

...The World War 2 is officialy over, and another reason for the french people to get a bit lazy. We don't work today, which is good. I fell asleep at 20:00 last night because of a bad headache. I think I got a sunstroke. I sat in the sun for a couple of hours yesterday, and then I ironed some fabrics for a while, which got really hot and caused bad air in the atelier.
So here I am, it's 05:10, clearly awake. It's great!
I just thought about something, what if one of me and my roommates would like fall of the bed and die or something. No one would notice until a week later, or not even that. We barely talk or see each other. Weird, and scary...

work injury

I hate la machine à carrotte!!! I can't move my little finger, and it's bruised. It hurts...:(
I got the OFFICIEL magazine of the wintercollection in Paris, London, Milano and New York. I'm gonna get inspired and sew!!!

ah, home!

I think my heart just jumped up my throat, and disappeared in the forest...
I came out from the metro Chateau de Vincennes, and saw a bunch of policemen standing there in the dark talking to people, probably witnesses of something (will have to look in the newspaper tomorrow about that) The bois wasn't litten up with any lamps tonight, which made me pretty scared, so I used my cellphone as a lamp to guide me through the park, as I enter the narrower road that takes me out of the park I notice a man standing behind a pole, waiting, I don't know for what! Lucky I had someone coming up in front of me, so I wasn't alone, it just scared the shit out of me...

What would the world be without stupid people?

I just talked to Nyko about his Thesis project, the rescue vehicle G.R.U.V. very complicated for a person like me to understand. I didn't understand why someone would want a thing like that in the beginning, but I guess it's for people like me he has to defend his project which is good training for him. It was interesting though.

I went to PARSONS Paris right after work today, supposedly a student was gonna have his thesis exhibit there today, but when I got there I asked people about it and no one knew anything so I just left. I'm surprised of how the school looked like. It kind of reminded me of a kindergarden, and the students pay so much money to go there.
They pay about 20.000€/year!!!

Shit I need to go to work now. :P Don't want to...

This is great ART!

Zoey Kravitz

haha again what?

Funny:
Marion and Alfonso had made pancakes and they had some leftovers they had put on a plate with a note saying :

"Theese pancakes are for you guys.
There are five, so one for each person!"

hehe...what? when did we become 7 people living in this house?? Who are those 2 other people?? I'm curious to know WHO I'm sharing my home with...

What?

Now, someone has decided we can't bring home the food that are left after the day from Cojean. It just HAS TO go to the garbage! Which I think is sooo stupid, such a waste, and now I have to do groceryshopping again. It sucks, I hate doing groceryshopping, not only does it ruin my financial plan, lol, it takes soo much time for me deciding what to buy and eat for dinner and gives me a panic attack because I don't know what to eat :P
So much easier having someone else deciding what you're gonna eat.


Today a lady called and said I could come and visit a room close to Saint Lazare. I'm gonna visit it on friday, but I'm just so tired of visiting rooms and get disappointed. I think this will be the last visit, than I'm stopping, too tiring.

I bought the book ALL THE SAD LITERARY MEN by Keith Gessen. About some college guys trying to understand love kind of. I read the back of it, and thought it sounded interesting we'll see.

Some photos from the COJEAN family night at HIDEOUT

Damn monday tomorrow, AGAIN!

The weekend passed by too fast, fortunately there is another long weekend next week :) Thinking about going somewhere alone, to a small city outside of Paris.

So I visited the studio in the 9th today. M°Notre Dame de Lorrette, very nice studio, but no internet, about 20m2...It's about 600€ as well, I don't think it's possible to find a place inside of Paris for cheaper than that, crazy! Feel bad just thinking about paying a higher rent than my father does for an appartement with 3 bedrooms :S

Took a capoeira class too, I think I'm always en mode low-energy on sundays, I just can't move. But then we kept doing just kicks for like an hour, so I think I pulled my hip finaly, yey!
After that we went to SUBWAY. I knew I didn't have any food at home, so I might as well eat with them there. I haven't been there since I came to France. Well, even in Sweden I never go to SUBWAY. But it's just that when you already have good sandwiches with the best baguettes in the world in a city like Paris, why go to a place like SUBWAY, it's more expensive and the bread is dry and sinks down like it can't breath :S
No, I still prefer the real parisian sandwiches from the traditional Boulangeries with no artficial substances :)
But this whole weekend has been a weekend of trials: friday night I had KFC for the first time in Europe (had it the first time in New Jersey when I was 14), today I also tried a Gourgere, I think it's called...it's a kind of bread with Gruyère cheeze. It was really good, reminded me of petit choux. Then I also tried a libanese thing, it's sweet, made out of almond paste and garnished with pistachio nuts. SO GOOD!

So a weekend of strangeness!
Gourgere

Libanese sweets

autoportrait

So this is one of my autoportraits, I could probably do better, but I wanted to keep you guys updated, so here it is!

Big dinner

Ah, I'm tired and full. I just came home from a big dinner chez Vincent. He made some lasagne and chocolatecake with raspberry for me and his flatmates. It was actually very tasty, although he will probably say it wasn't.
Otherwise, today I visited a room in a colocation in a big appartement close to Gare du Nord. The room itself was about 20m2, a very nice room with big windows and a lot of light.
But the problem was it was very expensive. About 600€ (without CAF though) and then caution, agencyfee had to be paid, plus that I'm obliged to pay for some furnitures that the current tenant is selling, and everytime they change tenant, they make the new tenant pay for the washingmachine, fridge and dishwasher. So that will be a lot of money too. I was there with another visitor that was much more forward than I was, and clearly showed more interest in the room. So I don't think I'm gonna get it. I mean I don't know what I would do if they chose me as a colocataire.
I really liked the whole appartement, and the two guys living there were studying architecture and seemed really nice. But, yeah, if they chose me I would just take that place, but it's way too expensive for me :P
I also took a yoga class this afternoon, it was tiring, my technique is getting really bad, but what the fu*k, I felt good afterwards.
Tomorrow I'm visiting another studio close to Montmartre, we'll see how that works out :P It takes way too much time to visit all theese places, I hate to look for a new place.

can't draw!

OMG, i'm freaking out! I have to be back at Atelier Chardon Savard in june to show some drawings that Chardon told me to do as kind of a "homework". The only problem is: I can't draw for a dime!
I don't know what to do, I really don't earn that place in that school, I just look at all the sketches the students do in that school, and they are way too good for my level :P I'm panicking, can someone please give some talent....
I'm trying to do my autoportrait, but it just doesn't look right at all...

I just came home from an evening of dance performance with the great couple Le Twins. Two guys in their early twenties doing hip hop newstyle. The performance was very amuzing.
After that I went to a bar with Jess and his friends, freezing our asses of, so finaly we ended up getting hot wings from KFC! I had never been there, thought sometime had to be the first time, right! It was good, as in OK-good. More crust than chicken, and calling it chicken wings, I don't know...
I was planning on partying all night long, like I wanted last night too, but no, I'm way too cold and just don't feel like taking the nightbus home. Anyways, I don't know what's up with Paris tonight, I was on the metro, it wasn't even midnight, and I think half of the train was drunksleepy, and a girl even threw up..YUCK!
It's a shame though, now when I have several days off, I don't feel like partying. It's only when I start work 7:30 on a saturday that I feel like partying the night before :P

Here is a video of Le Twins:

kablar

Jag visste inte kablar kunde komplikera livet så mycket.
Har äntligen rätt ut alla kablar i mitt rum, och det känns VÄLDIGT uppfriskande måste jag säga. Jag möblerade om lite, så att det blev lite mer arbetsvänligt :)
Jag hoppas bara jag lyckas hålla det rent.....

WOW, I didn't even notice I wrote in swedish before I re-read the whole input, and thought about the word komplikera: how to spell it OR if it's even a word in swedish...?
Help, someone?
Anyways, I was just saying that I re-did my room, put my desk different to make it more convenient to work at, and that all my cables are a pain in the ass!

But I'm done un-cabeling.
And I need to eat something, and get dressed. Going to watch a hiphop new style performance with Jess and his friends.

Have a nice afternoon!

in pain

My legs have not hurt this much in a very long time.
Oh, I'm so happy having a long weekend ahead!