Works Weekly Fashion

What a week! Just when I thought life was seriously plummeting downwards after returning from my incredible adventure in Tanzania... Friday has come about with an absolute BANG!

But let me start from the beginning...

Monday:

Tuesday: 

Wednesday:

I have been absolutely LOVING yellow blazers for so long, seeing them on all my blogging friends fashion posts left, right and centre! 

South Africa just doesn't seem to have many edgy, funky clothing that is affordable so when I stumbled across this awesome blazer in Mr. Price (the equivalent of UK's Primarks...) I could not resist! I know I'm supposed to be saving my money away right now to pay for my ridonkulously expensive dentist bill and to also eventually fly over to Mauritius and Bali... and India.... and Ireland for St. Patty's day...... I'll stop now! Many travel plans ahead! It may just take a while.... 

Thursday: 

On Thursday I had to do a show house for work (I work at an international real-estate agency). 

You know all those boards people drive by on their way to work that have FOR SALE printed across it or in my case: SHOW DAY....???? The boards everyone LOVES to vandalize or steal??? 

Yeah well it was my job to hammer in about nineteen boards. Only one got stolen though, across from a local pub.... figures. 

Another got cracked in half. 

Back to the point ... I decided to wear my: KEEEEEEYAAAA!!!! (insert karate sound there) clothing. Hammering in nineteen real estate boards is HARD! It got seriously hot and tiring and it was a beautiful Spring day too so I suffered big time! It was much better than being cooped up in an office all day though so I really have no complaints. 

Friday

Friday.... today everything changed for me. 

I had been feeling really low and stressed out to the point where even blogging seemed like a chore to me. I have been really quiet lately and for that I'm sorry. 

I spoke with the real estate agency and was extremely honest with them. I told them that after a month there I've realized that it really isn't the environment for me. 

They are sad to see me leave and made me feel really good by saying that I had been such a huge help to them and was a fast learner but that they understood. 

Directly after that I was offered a job at a Fine Arts Gallery in the centre of town!!!!!! 

I was so unbelievably happy I hugged the lady who interviewed me (who also happens to be my English Teacher from school days!!) and she gave me a big hug back, welcoming me to the team. 

So real estate is no more than a distant memory to me. 

I now have acquired my absolute dream job working in an artistic environment, a beeeautiful fine arts gallery in town. It is so much more 'me'. Words cannot describe the relief and happiness that I feel right now. 

Working in that environment is going to be such a huge inspiration for me while I study my photo journalism course too. Finally it feels like this could be it.... this could be where I am supposed to be. I hope and pray that it is and cannot wait to start there hopefully as early as next week!

Have an incredible weekend bloggers! I know I will :) 

Peace and love! 

Namaste. 

Amsterdam - Holland

Amsterdam, believe it or not, was another place that I was honestly not overly fussed about visiting. Contrary to popular belief, I'm not as much of a party animal as some would like to believe! 

To start off our travels in Amsterdam we found a great bicycle tour company and rode through the streets, getting a really interesting history lesson. I chose a shocking pink bike with tassels and seriously, do not be fooled. That bloody bike was by far the stiffest and hardest one to ride out of all of them! My legs literally died. This may have been because it never actually gets used until someone as idiotic as me decides to come along and blow the dust off of its bell. 

After a few hours, I was pretty surprised we weren't a) drunk or b) high in Amsterdam yet. Instead, we were actually pretty grand tourists if I say so myself! We found our way to this quaint Cheese and Clog factory / farm where we learnt how to make clogs from scratch and actually watched a man do it! We sampled the most delicious cheese I have ever tasted in my life.. and cheese and wine tastings are one of my favourite past times for obvious reasons! I think I bought have of the shop in cheese!! (hehe). 

We then furthered our education by visiting Anne Frank's house (WOW). Anne Frank's house.. I do not even know what to say. She is such an inspiration. I could have spent absolute hours there reading parts of her journal and wondering around the rickety, eerie house. It was majestic... surreal even. I think I had tears in my eyes at one point. It is spooky but beautiful at once, merged together into this strange historical place. 

I took a walk down The Red Light District too and that was an experience and a half!! There are all these windows with half / fully naked women sitting behind the glass, eating banana's, talking on their phones, enticing you to come closer... And every shop is filled with the strangest sex toys I have ever seen! What an experience! I'd definitely go back for a party again. No doubt about it. 

Of course I went into the coffee shops and café's and let me just say here that there is a HUUUUUUGE difference between what a coffee shop is and what a cafe is in Amsterdam!!!!! 

Coffee Shops are where you can find legalized cannabis, not café's. There's an awesome coffee shop called The Grasshopper which I went to but the green stuff is pretty pricey there! Even in the other coffee shops it was pretty expensive... but you're only in Amsterdam once (well no... you're not! As I said, I'm definitely going back!!!) so of course I managed to have a sneaky puff or two! 

It. Was. Awesome. 

We smoked just before we went to this crazy graphic sex show... I don't think any of us actually realized what we were getting into by going to a sex show!!! Literally watching people have sex... right in front of you!! 

The show loves to get Contiki involved as well so we were called up onto stage and had to do some pretty embarrassing things such as eat a banana out of a woman's you know what and undress a very large black man.. yum yum!! hahaha it was by far one of the craziest, weirdest but most awesome nights. You're only YOUNG once so I intend to live my days to the fullest and experience every little thing that I can in life :) 

Amsterdam was our last place we went to in Europe and it was time to say goodbye to each other which was heartbreaking and a lot of tears were shed. My contiki team has become family and to be leaving them behind was awful but I'll always remember every day that I spent with all of them.

We went out for one last lovely meal in Amsterdam and out for an insanely crazy party filled with belly-shots, dancing, puking and LOVE before we parted ways!

Then it was time to head back to London where I celebrated my 22nd birthday. I had my hair and nails done at this amazing place called Richard Ward (apparently where Kate Middleton has her hair done!?) and was taken out to such a divine restaurant and treated to the most incredible food and champagne I have ever had in my life. 

Berlin - Germany

Berlin was not my most favourite place to visit... Munich by far blew it out of the water. There was still a hell of a lot of history to be taken in and so much beauty and eeriness to it but that place is just so under construction! I actually barely took any photo's in Berlin because everything was so under construction! For every view you could find, just add in about three or four cranes destroying it and that's pretty much the way that I remember Berlin! Not even the Berlin Wall was a huge 'wow' factor for me. Honestly, I hadn't researched Berlin at all so I had no idea what to expect and that is my fault but I really wasn't expecting something so historic such as the Berlin Wall to be covered in graffiti. It was beautiful in it's own right and very artistic but not at all what I expected from it but like I said, it was my fault for not doing the proper research as I had been advised to do so the fault is on me. 

There are all these little postcards you can buy that have a little plastic container attached to them with tiny shards of the Berlin Wall kept inside. Makes for a great gift actually but I figured it was a bit of a tourist gimmick and walked away. Now though, I would have loved to be able to put one in my little memory box. Damnit. 

The best story I have about Berlin to be truthful is my first Tram experience! I had never seen a tram before in my life and had no idea what it was! (This small town girl seriously needs to get out more!) 

A tram is probably one of the weirdest pieces of machinery / mode of transport that I have ever seen. Its like a tube or a train... but it works on the roads.... attached to a cable above it. Whadafuck????? It looks beyond odd. People must have been laughing at me so much as they watched me try to figure out this strange contraption. 

Anywho... so the riding part of it was pretty manic. Trams can get PACKED. I also got separated from my group and had to find my way into the centre of Berlin all alone - but I did it!!! Which was awesome. I didn't get lost in the middle of Germany.. for long ;) 

I also FINALLY had Ben and Jerry's ice cream for the first time! I'd always wanted to try it so got pretty darn excited when it was finally available to me. I must have had about twelve tubs in one day. Shh. 

Berlin was pretty much our resting spot before we headed off for Holland, Amsterdam. We needed to rest our livers (and our lungs.......) to be able to survive what was ahead of us in The Red Light District!

(This is a pic of me looking mighty hungover in my jammie's, walking along the Berlin Wall. If you look closely you'll see the Hinduism Om symbol there, which I thought was pretty awesome).

My Weekly Fashion

There are only three photo's of my fashion this week as I was booked off work ill on Thursday and Friday. I woke up on Thursday morning with a massive spider bite all red and inflamed on my chest. Not cool. 

Needless to say - I felt absolutely dreadful and had a roaring temperature.

Luckily I was able to stay in bed and get some of my uni work done though which was great. 

Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Thursday and Friday:

This is when I got ill...

My cat desperately wanted to be in the photograph. 

Meet India - my pride and joy :) 

Everyone deals with being sick in a different way... 

To me, I couldn't think of anything better to do than put on my favourite hoodie, fluffy slippers and yoga pants. 

Be brought some delicious vegetarian gourmet sandwiches from my friend Patrick (as seen below), even though he did tell me that I looked like a heroin addict when I dragged myself out of bed to collect my little box from him. (He's the blondie on the right):

Make some damn good coffee to dunk some Eet Sum More biscuits into and rotate between the occasional study session (OK - its time to face facts... I'm a pretty big nerd. I really enjoy studying), and losing myself in some of the best feel-good movies I could find from my collection. 

How do you deal with being ill??? 

Oh... guess what? 

It's Friday!!!

I might not be able to go out and enjoy myself this time around but you surely can... so, I have taken the liberty of finishing this post off with such an awesome song to start your Friday Night off with!! 

Enjoy!

Jake Bugg - Two Fingers

Enjoy and be safe!!! 

Love, light and happiness to all! 

xxxx

Sick in Bed

It's winter here in South Africa for just a few more days, then Spring is hitting us - hopefully with full force. 

I love the rain, storms and cold IF I am safely tucked away in bed, preferably close to a lit fire along with copious amounts of hot chocolate (or wine, depending what time it is...) and a good book. 

A friend of mine, Jessie, tagged me in this adorable quote today that I couldn't help but share with you all:

She told me that it reminded her of me. How sweet is that!? 

Anywho... so today I have woken up with quite a painful and large spider bite on my chest which has inevitably left me feeling pretty awful. I have a roaring temperature and am in and out of dizzy states. 

I went to the doctor first thing and they have booked me off work and thrusted me some anti-biotics and pain killers to help.

To be honest I've been needing the break. I only just started my new job at this real-estate agency but at the exact same time I started studying my photo journalism course too. Not only that but I also have to study my NQF4 and PDE to become a qualified estate agent so things have been craaazy lately.  Juggling a social life on top of all of that .... some would say its impossible. By the time I finish work at five, cracking the spines of my textbooks open is the LAST thing I want to do. 

It's great to be able to lounge around in bed a bit and update my blog... it's great to be able to just take a few hours to relax! I do still need to be studying my course though - which I will get around to after this post. 

I've become so distant towards my blog over August because of travelling to Tanzania where there honestly just wasn't time to blog and also as soon as I got back life just hit me in the face, breaking my proverbial nose and knocking out a few teeth while it did so! 

Hopefully I will find a pattern of some sort soon. I'm sure things will get easier as the time goes on and that overwhelming feeling cluttering up my head-space has settled. 

So... this is what my next two days will be entailing: 

The book I'm busy reading at the moment (really good!)

Tomorrow I'll do my fashion post of the week, probably along with a lovely sickly photo of how awful I look just to show you that we're all human! Someone recently sent me a message saying, 'Why do you always look so good!?' and I almost laughed. Crickey.. you should see me in the mornings. Usually it looks like I've been electrocuted.

So I thought it would be a really cool way to show you all that its something we shouldn't be ashamed of.

That's all tomorrow!!! 

Have a goodie!!!