French Diary

Packed with a lot of memories and mementos from my latest trip to France, the Provence-Alpes- Côte-d’Azur region to be more precise, I decided to let you in on some of the photographic evidence of the beautiful moments I’ve witnessed for a week or s...

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I'm in France

As I typing this, I am sipping my very well deserved Fraise et Banana smoothie in Aix En Provence, France, while waiting for my dear Laure to come pick me up. We’ll be heading together for Toulon tomorrow for the first Interrail session of the PEJ (Parlement Européen des Jeunes) where I’ll be chairing once again. To give my story a bit of a background, I’ll have to tell you how it all started. Last Friday I saw that my friend, Ruru (whom I’ve known for longer than I can remember and met through the EYP), was selected as the president of the above mentioned session. Congratulations were in order and a couple of minutes later...

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On the job

10 a.m. Preparing myself for a Journalism seminar when I casually check my e-mail, waiting for the delivery date for a Body Shop order. Looking through the unread file, my eyes stop upon a response, “ RE: Lincoln Promo”. I quickly open it to see if my job application had been successful and realise that if I am the first to reply to this e-mail, I’m actually getting my first real job. And I do...

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Finding the perfect concealer - a matter of knowledge and luck

Given a random thought, cosmetics and philosophy don’t really go together. One’s about appearance, while the other is about essence. But what happens when the two meet and intertwine in the mind of an over thinking 20 year-old? I was in Boots a couple of days ago, desperately trying to figure out what concealer to buy in light of my imminent EYP trip (e.n. they involve quite little sleeping time) and realizing it looked like it was shaping up to be Mission Impossible. I went through all the stalls, from Bourjois to No.7 and to Guerlain, but the only thing I succeeded to was confusing myself even more. In less than 10 minutes...

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Open-mindedness

My entire life I’ve been annoyed by the way I look, by the frizzy curls I naturally have and by the other completely insignificant details that made my life awful, while others wouldn’t even notice them. As I grew older and started meeting people from different backgrounds and with different mindsets, I started understanding that I should be more laid back and more pleased with who I am, though I never truly liked myself and always strived to change it. I’m guessing that some parts of it have been embedded in my mind by the society I was raised in and cannot be as easily removed. It is a sad society, where the “perfect...

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