Caminho para o trabalho

Sei que muitos adorariam saber como é um dia de trabalho em Heavenly... Depende muito. A base é a mesma, mas dependendo da função cada dia é um dia. Então decidi fazer uma coisa bacana. Filmei a minha ida ao trabalho desde o hotel até o restaurante lá em cima na montanha. =)

Foram 3 meses indo e voltando do trabalho fazendo snowboard. Delícia!

Quer saber como é esse caminho? ;)

Veja o vídeo abaixo:



Ps. Do hotel até o restaurante Sky Deck em Heavenly leva mais ou menos uns 50 minutos de 'viagem'.

Interview about my Work Experience USA

Yaaay!

I was interviewed by Renato - my consulter - about my Work Experience and you can check it out online. Here!



Au revoir!

Sour sick!

Well.. I'm back.

Brazil is all over me now... breathing my own breath. *dramatic*

I guess I'm allowed to be, though, I'm sick. My throat hurts. My back, my body aches. And my head only wants a bed with soft pillows and no more pain. It sounds too much. Well, this is a blog, isn't it? I suppose I have to be like this. Right?

Nah. I'm just kidding. Well, the sick part is true, but I don't have to be such a bitch. I guess is my 24th birthday late crisis. It's finally growing on me.

Since I got back, I have been feeling kinda lost. That the place I really belonged was far away from me... However, I'm getting use to the idea of being hot and sweaty all the time. That I'm back to reality... to college. That I have to find my way into this mad world again and get a job.

I hate being sick. I feel really old when I'm sick. I feel like complaining about everything. =) As if I had the right to do it.

I'm still working on updating my last days in Tahoe. You all should know what its like to say goodbye to a place it's grown on you! It's something you don't forget.

But I'm saving that for later! I'm still not ready to do this... To make a closer out of it. At least is how I think this is... a closer. Me.. coming back.

Soon. I promise.

White hair

Can you really say that you've noticed when you had your first white hair?

Well.. I know I did. I never ever had one 'till today. I mean... I found out today. But it wasn't there yesterday, I can assure you. It's not that I keep track, I'm really not that shallow, laughs, cause I don't give a shit, but I look at my hair everyday for a reason! I do it, cause I miss my old hair so damn much! I know it's coming back to red, but I miss the old red. =P

Anyway... I was taking a brake at work, went to the bathroom and when I turned I saw something shining. Really. Shining. I came back and there it was... a white hair. I'm so proud!

I guess it took me 23 years and a Work Experience USA to grow in me white hairs... I mean, hair. :) Let's not push it. Laughs!

No one likes to loose things... Right? When something like this, this amazing and unique experience, comes to and end... Well, it does feel like I'm losing something. I know I will get over it and all of this will be even better in the future. However, right now, it feels like part of me is fading away... like a memory fading black or a movie right before its end.

Sometimes the movie is so good you just don't want it to end, right? And when it ends, feels good but at the same time, you wish there was more. :P

I learned a few things here, that's for sure. And when we learn something we end up losing something as well. You know... You grow up! A little bit more. I remember when I didn't wanna grow up. A forever living child, if that sounds right. I guess many people wanted to live forever as a child. Look at me now! Growing up never felt better! I have a white hair and I couldn't be happier! *grin*

What am I going to miss the most? Lets see... The mountain. I am damn lucky to get to snowboard every single day to work, get on that chairlift and being able to look back over my shoulders... at the lake... to this god forsaken view that takes - literally - my breath away! And when I get off work, it's even better. I get to see the sunset of this place. Can you believe I actually look at it and I get hypnotized and try so hard to memorize it so in the future the image of this lake and the snow mountains around it will be forever frozen in my mind?

South Lake Tahoe - 2009/2010

And I know that no matter how hard I try... memories can be mean to us. Even here, in Lake Tahoe, right now, seating in my room, when I close my eyes and try to see the most perfect view in my mind, it doesn't bring me the feeling of perfection that going up the mountain does.

Now I sound like a drama queen!

Me and Anielen on our lunch break at Sky Deck

Speaking of work, I won a star! Every month - at Heavenly - the bosses vote for the TOP 2. And I was chosen. I cried... as soon as I went to the bathroom after they told me, laughs! I didn't want anyone to see me crying. I know for some people it's silly, but it isn't for me. It was actually something I really wanted. Like a goal... you know? I went to the Stars Party, which was really great and fun, I ate shrimps and lots of pasta, met nice people and finally put the star's pin in my uniform. =) I love Sky Deck! Best crew I could've ever wished for!

Heavenly Stars Party

I guess I still have more two weeks of this Heavenly place and then I will hit the road to Vegas! Right after I will be going towards one of my biggest dream ever; going back to Disney World in Florida. I was six years old when I went there for the first time, in 1992. Tell me that this isn't the greatest thing in the whole wide world for - a forever living child such as myself - to do? :)

Hasta la vista!

On My Way, by Phil Collins

I couldn't say it better! It sounds like if I had written! :P

Welcome to South Lake Tahoe

Tell everybody i'm on my way
New friends and new places to see
With blue skies ahead, yes i'm on my way
And theres no where else i'd rather be

Tell everybody i'm on my way
And i'm loving every step i take
With the sun beating down, yes i'm on my way
And i can't keep this smile off my face

Cause theres nothing like, seeing each other again
No matter what the distance between
And the stories we tell, will make you smile
Or really lifts my heart

So tell'em i'm on my way
New friends and new places to see
And to sleep under the stars and could ask for more
With the moon keeping watch over me

Not the snow nor the rain, can change my mind
The sun will come out, wait and see
And the feeling of the wind
In your face can lift your heart

Oh... theres no where i'd rather be
Cause i'm on my way now
Well and true
I'm my way there
I'm on my way now(x3)

Tell everybody i'm on my way
I just can't wait to be there
With blue skies ahead, yes I'm on my way
And nothing but good times to share

So tell everybody I'm on my way
And I just can't wait to be home
With the sun beating down yes I'm on my way
And nothing but good times to show

I'm on my way
Yes, I'm on my way

Hasta la vista!

Never miss opportunities!

This chapter is dedicated to my mother!

My favorite

When I was little I learned that you shouldn't say no to opportunities, no matter how they appear or how you think they will come back for you eventually.

Recently I had the opportunity to go to San Diego... It wasn't my idea. I wasn't exactly called for it and I didn't know anything about it till the time came. Somehow I saw myself packing and inside a huge car.

Two of my roommates along with a friend, were heading there to apply for an english course or something like that and they needed to bring documents, money and themselves (such as they say) to make it happens. Somehow 9 more people knew about it and found themselves ready to road trip with them. I was one of them.

Like I said. I can't afford to loose opportunities.

Me and the girls - streets of San Diego

So, on January, 25th, we rented two big cars and twelve people headed their asses to San Diego from South Lake Tahoe. And by that I mean freaking 13h inside a car with people who love brazilian funk music, hip hop, samba, 'pagode' and 'axé'. Everything I asked God for it! Jeez.

Let's just say that I survived, cause I don't wanna be such a drama queen. Besides, I already talked about this and I'm okay with the idea that I wouldn't listen to this crap any other way, so... Honestly, it was worth it. Those are, for me, the songs of Lake Tahoe and forever will be part of my life.

I kindda saw a little bit of Los Angeles, cause our driver decided to get out of the highway and go through the streets of LA instead. People might have complained cause that made us arrived in San Diego 2 hours later... But I enjoyed. I liked Los Angeles. The streets are so cute... So.. different, you know?

Anyway, we're talking about San Diego. Once we got there, after bloody hundreds of hours later, we checked in, ate Jack in the Box and instead of settling down we started to get ready to go out. San Diego night called us. Them, actually. I just followed, cause I have no personality. =)

I didn't drink cause I didn't want to spend money in drinks so I just chilled with myself while everybody drank their asses off. Which was really fun, cause I never saw some of them that kind of drunk before. I keep letting people surprise me... Didn't I learn already?

1:30am the lights went on and the DJ literally told everyone to go home. Like that. Laughs. I love this culture thing. =) We all went home and a few of us went to bed... the others were playing with the video camera while they were drunk. :P

I went to bed smiling and happy cause I was in San Diego, baby!!!!

Me, Bruna and Anne

I woke up at 7am and waited. Since three people were visiting San Diego for a reason besides tourism, they took a car and went straight to Community College to decide their destiny. The rest of us had to decide where to go first. So we all went to have breakfast and then headed to the first beach; Ocean Beach.

I just love being silly

Since we were twelve, opinions can be a bitch sometimes... but everybody has a right to have one, so... it took us a while, but finally we met an accord between ourselves. Half of us were going to the Zoo after the second beach and the other half wold stay and have some beer at the peer of a third beach. Honestly... I know it's a different country, different beach, but we only had one day in San Diego and I didn't want to spend it drinking beer at a peer, once I can do exactly the same thing in Rio de Janeiro. I know it's only my opinion, but it didn't sound right to me. For me... it was a stupid idea.

So... Back to Ocean Beach. We took a lot of pictures in this hippie community area, which I thought it was awesome, by the way, and wondered about for a while saying what a f******* great town San Diego was every second of the time!

Second beach; La Rolla. Now we're talking! Since it's a rich neighborhood, the streets are clean, the houses are perfect and the beach is the best. For a moment I almost cried... I wish I lived in a place like this! Beautiful... beautiful!

La Rolla Twelve! :P

More pictures... maybe some videos... jokes about seals and birds and then, Zoo time. It was then that we split. Half headed to Pacific Beach and me and 5 more went to the Zoo. The best decision and the best thing about this trip by far!

The most famous and beautiful Zoo 'evah'!

How can I explain the bliss of a child? I felt like the most happy child in the entire world... I was in one of the most famous Zoo's in the world... what else can I say? I saw this lovely Panda and bears... I saw Pumba and Timon! I saw creatures I've seen million of times before, cause I have a perfect mother that took me everywhere when I was a child, but anyhow, everything seemed knew to me. I was far away from home... and I realize (not for the first time, of course) I was in a first world country. I wish the Zoo in Brazil were a happy place... just like this one.

Hey... How you're doing?

Isn't it the cutest thing you've ever seen?

A little something for myself...

After 2h of children happiness we were starving. We took the car and went to this perfect Brazilian Restaurant. Can you believe, after almost two months without rice, beans, beef with french fries and 'farofa', we finally ate it? Definitely my favorite dish! We looked like we'd never seen food before. We had fun.

SO GOOD!

When we headed back to the Hotel we went straight to be and took a nap. Late at night we went out. A different night club and a night that changed things completely for me... People can be really selfish and mean for no reason at all... and I never learned how to respect that. Maybe I never will! Anyway... bad things that happens in the past should stay in the past, right?

The important thing is that we learn everyday different things about people you see everyday. We learn that people change and we have nothing to do with it. Each one with their own problems, so... See if I give a shit!

I was exhausted when I went to bed and even more when I woke up. The ones who went to the Zoo, myself included, decided to wake up really early so we could see Pacific Beach before going back home. Perfect! It was sunny and not that cold, so with ran to see the beach, ate breakfast by the shore and took pictures of our last moments in that amazing city! I had the best time!

Me, myself and I

Me and Fê watching fake-wave surfers having a blast! =P

Loved everything about it!

But now its time to go back home. We checked out, split again in two cars and hit the road. 2 am we were back in South Lake Tahoe.

Maybe I'm dreaming and this is just a magical place I went to in my own mind... but the one thing I'm sure about it is that I don't regret anything and I am indeed having the time of my life! FUCK YEAH!

So... what did I learn? Never miss opportunities... you could have been missing a perfect day-life in San Diego! I miss my Argentinian... I wish you had been there with me!

Hasta la vista!

When you miss something or someone

This chapter is dedicated to my boyfriend.

My story here in Lake Tahoe is different than anyone else. I can't compare to make my point. I can't say I have the better job or the better room or better friends. Each and everyone here has a different point of view about what feels like to experience all this.

The idea of a Work Experience USA doesn't mean the same to everyone. Now I know that. Sometimes people just wanna get away from home, from their countries for any particular reason or their fathers thinks its the best. Sometimes they're returnees... they already did all this, fell in love with this life and decided to do all over again.


Apple Bee's with friends

And sometimes, you worked so hard for this and now you see your dream coming true and everything makes sense. Nothing can make your sad or stressed... you just not capable of complaining.

Everything I do there's consequences, right? Good and bad. Nothing can't be perfect or else it would be boring and happiness doesn't come from boredom! I knew when I decided to make this trip I would miss my home, my mom, my friends and my argentinian. I also knew it would be the definition of "experience of a lifetime".


Working - Sky Deck

Everyday I think about home and I know thats part of who I am, it doesn't make me sad. I know home is waiting for me... I miss it but I will never let that be turned into something I would be sad for. I knew what I was doing and I'm facing the consequences. I miss home but I'll miss all of this also. And I'm okay with that. Life is made of moments... and I'm enjoying as much as possible, cause my moment is right now!


Me and Fê having fun

I consider myself a positive person. Maybe good things happens to me for that reason, I don't really know. Anyway, where there's good there is also bad things. It has to be a balance. I mean, speaking clearly, I have to put up with some shit (excuse my french) just to maintain that balance, you know? People are different and being able to live and co-exist with different people is already a hard job, but when they don't have a clue of anything requires more than talent. You have to be freaking good with relationships or outstandingly easy-going. Since I don't think I'm neither, maybe a little bit of both, I must have been really blessed with patience. :P


Fell in love with snowboarding!

But the thing is... I don't even care about small issues like that. People who complains a lot just to be heard, tries to be more than they really are, says things without thinking just cause they have to have an opinion about everything... That happens wherever you are, right? It doesn't really matter if you're back at you own country or here in US or any other. So, I choose to live the best of it. I'm having fun and I'm living in Lake Tahoe... what else could I possibly want?

If you're happy you take that happiness with you anywhere you go...

Having the time of my life...

Hasta la vista!

It's all part of the plane

Every two weeks we get our pay checks. In two weeks you can work from 50 to 80 hours, maybe more, maybe less. It really depends on your luck. You never know. Sometimes you have two jobs and that doesn't mean you will make more money. Like I just said. Depends on your luck.

In my case I work five days a week, from 8:30am to 4pm almost everyday. I work on the mountain, up there where I can only get to work by snowboarding. I call it luck. I got my board - rental - for free, also my boots. Actually the whole package. I work in Food and Beverage so I get to eat for free too. Where I work, the whole crew is good people. Yep. It's not only luck. I'm blessed. =)

It sounds perfect, but sometimes people can be mean to you, for no reason at all. But this happens everywhere, right? It doesn't matter if you're in Brazil or abroad. Shit just happens. Not that I'm complaining, cause I couldn't be more happier here. It's a beautiful place, really nice people, lots of Brazilian to party even when you don't feel like it, laughs, and everyday is something new.

Anyway, when you do stuff like that, you're adapting everyday, there is no doubt. It can get really hard to adapt when you're feelings are in two places at once. As much as I love this place, this new magical moment of my life, my heart keeps following its way back to Brazil... It's not a bad thing, not really, it's just something I have to deal with it.

What completely amazes me is that everyday when I wake up and look through the window and see the white trees, the snow, the quite neighborhood, when I walk those ten minutes down the street to get the bus at the transit center... I just feel like home, you know? It just feels right. Everyday I'm excited to go to work. And I have to clean women's bathroom! I mean...

My roommates are really adorable, but they insist on listening to music I don't even call it music... laughs. It's a torture for me, but you know what? Where on hell I would listen to things like... mmm nevermind... I rather believe that this is all part of the plan! *coringa mode off

You see... it is indeed an experience of a lifetime and what it would be if I didn't do things I'm not use to? Right?

I'm just trying to be positive about it, laughs!



Good night!

Hasta la vista!

When the Sun Goes Down

Yep. I know... I've been lazy. Enough said.

Today is my day off so I found the time to write at least four sentences. Just kidding! The thing is... now that I'm getting use to all this, it seems easy to find the time to do things, but I don't know how to explain, the time isn't the same here. I know it sounds weird. But it's true.

The time goes by in a different speed. It might have something to do with the sun going down everyday at 5 pm. The day is smaller than I'm used to, indeed. But not to be able to enjoy the night as much as I would like... that is just playing nasty! I'm to tired all the time, laughs!

Holidays were nice. I've spent my Christmas working and then eating Burger King. Totally awesome... you can imagine. =P However, New Year's Eve was all about Brazilians, cold and live music.

Every single Brazilian in Lake Tahoe was there having fun, screaming 'Brazil! Brazil! Brazil!' all the time! We are for sure the loudest people on earth... even more than the Argentinians... laughs!!

Hasta la vista!

Sometimes I feel Like Screaming, by Deep Purple

Just because that song reminds me of my Argentinian... Wish we could be together to celebrate our anniversary today! Best 2yrs and 5 months of my life!

"While you were out...
The message says
You left a number
And I tried to call
But they wrote it down
In a perfect spanish scrawl
In a perfect spanish scrawl

Yet again
Im missing you
King size bed
(in a) hotel someplace
I hear your name
I see your face
I see your face

(the) back street dolls
And the side door johnnies
The wide eyed boys with their bags full of
Money
Back in the alley
Going bang to the wall
Tied to the tail
Of a midnight crawl
Heaven wouldnt be
So high I know
If the times gone by
Hadnt been so low
The best laid plans
Come apart at the seams
And shatter all my dreams

Sometimes I feel like...
Screaming
Close my eyes
Its times like this
My head goes down
And the only thing I know
Is the name of this town
Is the name of this town

Yet again
Im missing you
Wont be long
O coming home
Until that distant time
Ill be moving on
Ill be moving on"

Hasta la vista!

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
Bob Marley