14 juillet i efterhand

Det lilla vi såg av fyrverkerierna...:(


Yesterday the french national holiday was celebrated with fireworks!..I just wish I could have seen them...
Me, Vincent and Astrid were gonna meet up at Trocadera in the beginning. But already in the metro I noticed the supercrowd that was gonna be there, so I got off the metro and decided with Vincent and Astrid to meet up in Montmartre to get the view from Sacré Ceour. Vincent decided to not come after some up-and down walks from his place to M°Chateau de Vincennes. So me and Astrid met up, sat by the stairs in front of Sacré Ceour. We had no view at all over the fireworks, because the only fireworks were by the Eiffel Tower which was on the other side! :P so everybody started moving that way, which caused a big non-moving block. You know like all other holidays with fireworks, you just end up getting stuck with a big crowd, not seeing anything.
But we did get to take a walk around Montmartre, which was pretty cozy, I don't go there very often, so I always get amazed by how cute it is, and how much I really want to win a lottery and buy an appartement there, with a perfect view, with a terass and a hammock....!!!
Today I had my interview with A.A. (american apparel, and not Anonyma Alkoholister...) it went good, and the guy was really nice, the problem was just that the staff can work a minimum of 24h/week, and I wont be able to do that with school, and I really want to do good work this year. But he told me to call him back if I wanted some other position than a seller. So I might try to get an internship or something else with them later on.

A night out dancing Forro!

It's quarter to five in the morning and I just got home from an evening dancing Forro at Los Mexicanos. It was sooo fun! It's a brazilian bar, so I don't know why it's called Los Mexicanos...??
It was the first time I tried dancing forro, but I had all my capoeira friends teaching me how to do it, so after a while I got the rythm, it was awesome! I love going out dancing, I hate all the bars and nightclubs where you just dance whatever to the usual clubmusic, but going to a salsa club or forro and actualy learning something is great!!
So we were dancing forro in the beginning, then they started dancing samba, and then it was some kind of funk and brazilian rap...Anyways, I'm gonna go there a lot, and it's free too!

This afternoon after been doing the close, Vincent told me I was gonna get moved to Cojean Printemps, for all of you that doesn't know, I've been working at Cojean Madeleine so far. AND I really don't want to move!! If I'm gonna stay in Cojean it's going to be at Cojean Madeleine! But apparently they are opening this new Cojean in the big houseware, and they need confirmed staff. But I'm so sad I'm going to move, no one knows I'm going because Vincent was not suppose to say it, not even Thibault (the director of Cojean Madeleine) knows! I was actualy gonna move there this thursday already, but they got it postponed to in 2 weeks :P Anyways, I hope I get a new job before that...As I said, Cojean Madeleine or nothing else..!

do not take a step outside the door!!!

Can't believe I've been sitting infront of my sewing machine for 10 hours and I haven't gotten anything done! I started on a dress that turned out really weird cut... I know it's because i'm too lazy to cut out all the patterns exact. If something is gonna hold me back to succeed in the future, it's my lazyness. And I'm very very afraid of it!
..well, since the dress didn't come out right, I decided I have to have had something done from my day of just staying in, so I made this flowery skirt...

..I know you can't really see it, I just took one single shot with the camera, and was..again, too lazy, to take another one.
Whatever, I'm going to bed!

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"Unemployed hipsters Line up for chance to work for American Apparel"...hahaha

I have my interview with American Apparel on wednesday and I just saw this article on the web. I don't know if it's suppose to be funny, but I think it was. For me it just shows a desperate hipster trying to still be hip although she can't...because there are more imporant things to do than trying to be hip! haha, hilarious.

Unemployed hipsters Line up for chance to work with american apparel...

...I don't know if I'm that hipster, I just so badly wanna work for American Apparell!!! and no, I wasn't trying to be funny.

late sunday

Yesterday I felt a bit sick and went home a bit earlier from work. My stomach has been a bit worried so the past 24 hours I haven't been eating anything but couscous. Which is great! lol, it's so good!
Yesterday evening I saw a friends expo in the bar Les Etages in Marais. It was very poetic, a bit hard for me to understand. But I think he made a great job. I don't know if You can like things even though you don't 100%understand them. But that's what I did.
He is starting a new project with 9 dancers. He wanted to do a collaboration, so we'll see if that's happening. I would love to do something though.
I then fell asleep around 3am watching How I met your mother.
I woke up around 1pm this afternoon. I don't know what I'm going to do today, I just feel like staying in.

Lovely thursdays :)

I just love thursdays....

Did my yoga class Which felt great.
Besides that Janeck the check-in guy never came, and Sabrina (yoga teacher) was late, so I was inside the studio, since I have the keys. But I couldn't open for the students, because I'm not the one doing the check-in. When Sabrina finaly came to open the studio, everyone seemed so annoyed because they couldn't enter the studio, and there I stood already inside, changed and done for class. I felt so stupid, and people were giving me looks saying:"Grrr, why didn't you open the studio, stupid bitch!" I felt slightly uncomfortable...

I went to the bank in Fontenay sous Bois, transferred my money. I love the front desk girl at BNP Paribas in gare Fontenany sous Bois, she is always soo nice and helpful.

Then I met up with Adela (an old classmate from highschool) and her friend Annika. It was fun to catch up. Have had no idea what she has done for the past 4 years.

We walked around the area Etienne Marcel and Réaumur Sebastopol, because I wanted to find my friend Tomoko's boutique (she is a fashion designer, that studied at Studio Berçot)I didn't find her store, but I did find a great vintage shop where they re-do all old clothes, I found really cheap wigs there too :) So, I'm really looking forward to be invited to a masquerade sometime very very soon! ;)

This evening, Lucy had her good bye drink at Le Piment in Marais. She is going back to England. I had a drink and fell asleep..almost. I felt super tired, so I should probably go to bed now. Nighty nighty!

Lolo going crazy with the cameras at rushhour :P

Today Lolo and Fred was there to help with the rushhours, and of course Lolo was gonna go crazy with the camera taking shots of the dream team ;)

Neighbour with Tourettes syndrom..?

It's 2am and I'm listening to my neighbour. I don't know if it's him playing the classical music, but I definitely think that it has a connection. Cyrielle(the former tenant, and a friend of mine) and Juliana(my flatmate) have warned me about him making sudden noices,and they told me he had Tourettes syndrom. I thought that included sudden shoutings of whole words, but maybe not. Because all I can hear is like strong, long like caughings...It's like when something gets stuck in your throat and you try to get it up again. And it also sounds like he's blowing his nose everytime, so I'm not sure he actually has Tourettes syndrom... And everytime he is making those noices, I also hear classical music playing in the background, it's probably him, putting on the music to reduce the other noises he is making...It's interesting, I hope I wont ever meet him in the hall, I think he would scare the shit out of me...
Ok, I'm seriously gonna go to bed now, so tired, I'm gonna at least try to.

thanks, but no thanks!

I just got home from a long day!
I started 8 am at Cojean. The team this morning were excellent, we were like 1h in advance with the sandwiches, which made everything so much more fun today.
This afternoon it was pouring rain like it hasn't been doing in a very long time, it was nice :)
8 pm I took Emma's class at the yogastudio, it was such a great class. Not many people at all, and such a great energy.
The cleaning guy at the studio was cute. I mentioned that I was looking for another job, and he sincerely proposed to me to join the cleaning firm. I don't want to sound too condescending, but I really want to think I can do better than clean all day:P Not that working in a restaurant is waaay better, but at least you are with people your own age, the same values and you have something in common. I mean I'm truly happy I've met the people in Cojean <3 And if you just know what you're doing next it's actually fine!

colder? no no!

I was looking at the weather forecast yesterday and it said rainy and 21° and this morning I looked out the window and it was quite windy, but when I looked down on the people they still seemed to dress very lightly as it was hot like the other days. I got dressed, put on my t-shirt and jeans! Have only been wearing skirts or shorts theese pas suuper hot days. And I was thinking about taking a sweater with me, but I didn't.
I came out and went down the metro, and I finaly understood why people still don't dress warmer, even though it's getting colder. The metro is not at all air-conditioned, and with all the people it's still like a sauna down there! And when I'm going out or going to work, I'm spending about 80% of outdoor in the metro! So here I am stil soaking wet, even though i was looking forward to enjoy the slightly colder weather...

a perfect end to a perfect sunday

...and now I'm home from a great yoga class with Christian.
Getting home in the slightly less warmer climate felt great.
I think people in Paris are soooo funny. It's just small things that they do. In the metro there were 2 guys in their early 20s looking at a graffiti book, and I kind of looked over their shoulders and saw that a lot of the pictures were from Stockholm. So they saw that I looked kind of interested in the book, and started showing me the pictures and talk really loud, but not talking to me! LOL
Then at the same time, two gay guys with Louis Vuitton shoppingbags started compliment a goth kid for his iron chain bracelet, which obviously wasn't their taste at all...
Anyways, I just feel so great in this moment. Next week the weather is gonna be cooler which I'm looking forward to a bit :P

sunday at the fleamarket in St.Ouen

Yesterday I spent the evening hanging out with Adrien and his friends at Champ de Mars. It was kind of cool. Besides that it ended up with a series of pickpocketing, a bunch of people lost their bags. Not cool...

Today I wanted to find a mirror, since I don't have one. This past week I've had to wait til it gets dark to see how I look like- in the Window! or I've started Photoboot in the computer, using the webcam to see how my face looks like.
So I went to the fleamarket in St.Ouen, which is in the north of Paris (well, exactly where I live). It's suppose to be one of the bigger fleamarkets in Europe. I mean I always get lost there, so it probably is one of the biggest. But there is also a lot of expensive antique shops, so like 75% of the fleamarket is not so fun to go to, because it's so expensive. It's fun to look at, but you can't buy anything, or more -I- can't buy anything! But anyways, in the end I found a mirror for 10€, which I like a lot. I didn't know where to put it though, because it's kind of heavy, and I kind of just hung it wherever there was a hook.

70 Boulevard Ornano, 75018 Paris

View from my tiny balcony


A corner of my room

Lilian's kokbok

Tyckte bara Lilian skulle ändra riktining och satsa på att bli bagarinna istället. Passar henne så mycket bättre, det ser man ju på fotot :)

slept until 10 am! :)

First time I've actually woken up at the same time as my alarmclock goes off!
Yesterday I met upp at midnight with Jess, we couldn't decide if we were gona go out or not since all our friends had stood us up, and he really wanted to go out, so being the good friend I really am :), I went with him. I have to say this club was quite an experience...Not really my thing, but I also didn't pay a dime for it so what the heck!
Last night I sat on my couch going thru my stuff and read the receipt from H&M, and it said that they were looking for staff to their new boutique in Haussmann, so I'll probably go there and leave my CV.
I need to get ready for work now, great another day in hell...Why do people need to be healthy and drink all this juice, WHY!!!!

Fais rien que transpire :P

All I've been doing today is just sweating sweating and sweating...:P
This morning I woke up with no air in my room, it was really hot. So I took a shower, I had breakfast, took a 2nd shower. I decided to leave home a bit earlier than needed because I wanted to take a walk. I walked from Porte de Clignancourt down to M°Villier in the 16th, that's about the whole northern part of Paris city. I came to work looking like I had taken a gymclass.
I worked from 12:00-19:00, we had a lot of costumers because everybody loves to drink juice theese days.
After the close me and Vincent sat down at Tuileries and had our Paradise fruitsalad.
I'm going to bed, tomorrow is an early day, and I'm finaly taking yogaclass after more than a week away from all training. I'm really looking forward to train, I need to stretch my muscles!!!

Revenue and is too hot!

I'm now back in Paris after one week away from the city, but it almost feels like a month.
AirFrance was, as always, delayed, not much, but still. I read the Expressen, and saw that a plane crashed close to Madagascar. I directly thought about what Micke had said earlier, that he was now afraid of flying because of all the plane crashes theese past months. I have to say, it is kind of worrying....
I should go to bed now, this end of the week, looks like it's gonna be more than I can handle after a week of lazyness....

Cissi's preparation

Some photos from my little week in STHLM

Capoeira video

Somwhere in the middle you can find me around 1:22, 1:57 and 2:55 ;)

a day in sunny sthlm :)

A day in STHLM! sun, walks and dinner at Hermann's That's a relaxing summer day. BIS

Ça y'est je suis dedans!

Ok, so I'm officialy living in the 18ème arrondissement! Well, not totaly offical (I mean I haven't signed a contract or anything, and as for now it's only until end of september :P, wish it could be for longer...)
But all my stuff are here, and I've put everything in order and feel very very at home here:)

I have taken some pictures of my room, but I'm gonna take some pics of the quartier I'm living in as well, as soon as I have the time to just take a walk with my camera. This weekend has been crazy, it's been tiring.

I now need to pack my suitcase for wednesday(will be home at midnight tomorrow). Sweden here I come!

04:18 and I'm still not asleep

...and I have to get up at 6:00am tomorrow!!!
So that leaves me one and a half hour to sleep...if I manage to.

I started finish up packing. I forgot to get some duck tejp to the boxes from Cojean, which means I couldn't pack the rest of my stuff in the boxes, WHICH MEANS it was totaly useless to have brought them home!! I just packed the rest of my stuff in plastic bags.

I've been looking up interior design websites. I don't really know how to get my room nice, because I have a really ugly mezzanine in my room, which looks like a big piece of wine red block. It's really big and ugly, and depressing to look at. It would hide a lot of my stuff though. I'll see how I will get my room ready. I just LOVE the big window I have, and the small balcony :) and the fact that it's so close to the metro, no more scary walks in the bois de vincennes.

I will be really close to les puces de saint ouen, which is one of the world's most famous fleamarket, it's really big, so i'll try to find myself a nice antique-looking mirror for a good price.

I really should try to get some sleep...

ICECREAM after a sweaty day :P

I don't think I've done anything but sweat today. The sun in Paris is going up and down, but the humidity definitely stays up all the time. The metro is horrible.
This morning I was stressing, because I was gonna meet up Juliana(my next colocataire) at Chatelet to get my key. And I came to metro to notice I had forgotten my passe navigo, so I had to half-run all the way back home and half-run all the way back to the metro. Already there I was sweating away.
After work I had to stress home because Carlos was gonna be at my place with his car and we were gonna bring all my heavy stuff to Porte Clignancourt. So there I ran up and down 3 floors with heavy tables, and big boxes. Then we got stuck in the traffic on the way there.
At Porte Clignancourt we had to bring all my heavy stuff 5 floors up! No elevator, I think we did 2 days at the gym there already. Carlos drove us halfway home. It took us 1,5h to get halfway home, when it should take like 20 min with car back to Vincennes. But we realized it would go way faster with the metro. Going by car around 5-6pm on a friday is definitely not the right time to drive, I know now.
There, me and Vincent were dead so we had a quick dinner at McDo Vincennes, the only Mcdonalds I can go to. We went to my place freshened up. And off we were back to Butte Chaumont where we got stuck for hours with the car.
Memo was having a good bye soirée at a really cute bar called Rosa Bonheur in the middle of the parc. Really cute, and I love the parc Butte Chaumont. I've only been there once, and I had forgotten how beautiful it is.

could I be more stressed??!!!!

I think I picked like the worse weekend ever to move. Like I'm moving all my stuff this weekend, and having everything organized so that people can help me is a pain in the ass. And I also have to figure out what I should bring in the car, what I should move now and what I should leave, what I should do with all Nyko's stuff. AAAhhhh, it's killing me!
I'm also stressed about where I should adress all my mail. Because I will probably have a lot of important mail coming from school and stuff...

Don't like people that can't give a concrete answer

I just hate to deal with people that don't give a clear answer. I'm afraid I'm like that, I hope not though. That's what people mean by liking people who know what they want, and they give something clear. Not this, yes I can, but no I can't then then and then, but otherwise it should work. I'm like WTF, I don't wanna deal with you anymore...
And it kind of a general thing here in Paris I've noticed, people make things complicated, people give complicated answers. I find it annoying, I just like simplicity, yes, no.

Officialy dead

Damn you windows situated on my roof. Last night's rain had me woken up at 4am. And today Vincent had told me I was working from 12:00 to 15:00, but I actually worked from 12:00 to 19:00. So I was a bit annoyed with all the costumers.

re-doing mum's wardrobe

...but it's really ugly!
I was trying to re-do my mother's dress, because the elastic is really old, and rips apart just of a touch. I also sew it in a bit around the chest. But I just look like a femme de menage when I'm wearing it, looks horrible.

I told Mme Caulin I was gonna leave in the end of this month. She wasn't very happy about me leaving so soon, and told me I should at least give 2 months notice. But I think she is a bit old and have lost a lot of her memory. Because when I told her in april I was gonna leave she didn't have any problems wih me leaving in just two weeks. She didn't even comment or anything, she was just like: OK, if that's what you want, sure.
And now all of a sudden, it's too short of a notice, I don't understand.
Besides I hate these rules, they don't make any sense with each other, the first landlord wants you to give 1-3 months notice before leaving while the next landlord wants you to move in ASAP!

I'm gonna try to go to bed. It's so damn hot here in Paris, and my room is like damn sauna. I can't take it anymore, feels like I'm gonna suffocate. I know I should be used to this heat, but I just like the heat if I know Im gonna get out of it sometime.

Love and hate

Today I met up with Lilian in the city center. We went shopping, I bought two pairs of Cheap Monday jeans. I just love their jeans, although they just last for like a year, lol. But they fit relly good on me and has a reasonable price. And I like the staff who works there. It's also much cheaper to buy them here than in Paris. Normaly everytime I go back to Sweden, Weekdays always have a sale, but they didn't this time, so I was a bit disappointed.
Then me and Lilian ran from store to store in the rain, took the one hour-long train and all I had in my head was "wow, I'm happy I don't live here anymore". Stockholm is so cold and rainy right now, I just wanna go back to Paris. And I dont find any inspiration at all here, no diversity at all. Everything looks so square, everybody dress the same, no crazy people in the public transport, no fun!
I got home, put on my sweatpants and t-shirt and I'm watching the Hills while eating my mum's jumboshrimps baked in mango and banana leaves with rice. mmm YUMMY :) Now, that's a reason to go back home!

What am I getting coming back to?

...working public transportation
...non-crazy drivers
...a lot of articles about rapes
...Kaffe Latte

Home sweet Home

It's afternoon and I don't have anything particular to do right now. It's grey and rainy outside which makes me not feel so bad about staying in watching good tv. Sweden has such a good tv compare to France.
The trip went pretty smooth. The staff at the airport were so talkative this morning, it was really funny. The guy at the check-in complimented my shoes, and started asking me about Swedish cities. Then I come to the customs and the lady starts speaking swedish to me. I don't know how she knew I was swedish, she is definitely the first person ever to directly assume I was swedish. And then she asked what origine I was, and I said my parents were from Indonesia, and so she started speaking Indonesian to me. And then the two guys she was checking also started say some words in Indonesian.
Nyko: Thanks to you I've actually started noticing the containers that goes on the bottom of every airplane. Funny, because I didn't even know they existed before you started going thru you school project to me.
I sat beside a kind of weird man on the flight. Of course I always get the middle seat. On my right side I had this swedish woman coming home from a vacation or something (don't like swedish people when they are in another country, they act like no one understands you, and speaks with a really loud and cheeky voice), and on my left I had this man that looked like he worked for Louis Vuitton and had wine and started looking at me in a really weird and annoying way. And he asked me if there was a time change between Paris and Stockholm...Then I think he was the one farting all the time. It started smell really bad and he didn't stop moving around on his seat.

I've spent the last couple of hours being me, going thru all my photoalbums and taking pictures of all the old photos. I will probably put them up on sunday when I get back to Paris.
Apparently it's gonna rain everyday when I'm here. Yippi!

Sleepless night

I'm going back to Stockholm tomorrow. I'm really exited!!
Although I do have a lot of things to think about....Like if I'm moving or not... I just don't feel like dealing with it...
Juliana (friend from Capoeira) has a great appartement she wants to share, but it's only for 3 months if not the agency agrees on renewing the contract, and that's a big IF. I really don't feel like staying in this house. I want a bigger and lighter space.

Some other shots of the dress

My dress quasi-done

Here are some shots of my dress, it's not totaly done. I still have to cut it shorter. And sew it in around the shoulders, and look for some nice pearl buttons in an antique shop,I wan't it to look really vintage.

Hassan's an Astrid's Birthday

After a long day of work (from 7:30-15:00 with Kuljit in the kitchen and the best Cojean playlist ever) I went for a capoeira class, it was a free class which meant we got to train on whatever we think is best for personal improvements. After that Juliana came to my place to look at Marion's room and tried to decide if she was gonna take it or not. She said it was a bit too small.
Then I had to hurry to a night out with some colleagues to celebrate Hassan and Astrid. Thought I was gonna be late, turned out I was early. Hassan and Kuljit stood outside of Hide Out waiting for people to arrive. I decided we were gonna go and sit down on the quai instead of going to the bar. We met up with Astrid, bought some beer and went to the quai. Luca arrived and we had the birthday cake, a very chocolat-y one, made me gag after one piece.
Then we went to Thomas place and didn't do very much, but it kept us from freezing at least.
Les mecs continued to a soirée at Hôtel de Ville, me and Astrid took the last metro home. I came home around 2:30 am, and watched an episode of One tree Hill. Some message exchange with the guys to check if everyone arrived whole and healthy to wherever their destinations were.
3:30 am dodo...zzz

Finaly I found the video

I've been watching it like 5 times today, I get in some sort of trance when I watch it...

Life feels like a dream

I think that a terasse with sun in the morning is gonna be a big priority for my next appartement. I'm so happy to live where I live now. It's 09:30 and the sun is shining, I'm having my breakfast in the sun on the terasse. This house is exellent in the summer :)

Today is Lundi de Pentecôte, I finaly found the definition of this holiday:

Whit Monday has been one of the 11 French bank holidays for a very long time, particularly appreciated as it is a relaxing - and usually sunny - 3-day weekend during which families and friends get together and enjoy traditional French food!

Pentecost Monday is indeed part of the four public holidays in May which give French people the opportunity to go for a long weekend break - called Pont ("bridge") in French.

Following Whitsun, the Lundi de Pentecôte is actually part of a religious tradition held 50 days after Easter to celebrate the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles (disciples of Jesus Christ). The British name, "Whit Monday", derives from Whitsunday which refer to the white garments worn on Pentecost by the newly baptized, whilst the French national holiday is called "Lundi de Pentecôte", originating from pentêkostê meaning "fiftieth" in Greek.

So normaly people are free, but I have to work :( Wish I didn't have to, it's such a nice day, and this weekend felt way to short.