New life, here I come!

For those who don't already know, it's finally done, I found an internship! I'm going to work at a company called Cartus, it's a leader in global employee mobility, they work with big international companies and provide them help in relocation, management and cost reduction for example. I don't know exactly what I will be doing but something related to international communication and then there will be a project in management control and profitability calculation, something that the previous intern started and that I will hopefully finish. My boss is a French-American women, she is super nice and she keeps telling me that I will be doing a little bit of everything and that the most important thing is that I will work with something that I like and that I get the most out of my internship. She really seems friendly and I like this whole not so French atmosphere there. :)

 

Anyway, the company is well known and international and this internship will certainly be a great experience and look good on my CV. And I can't believe that for the first time in my life, I have a real job! No work on evenings or week-ends. I will have my own little office, I can dress nice, wear high heels and I don't have to tie my hair up. With my friend E who's also doing an internship, we are so excited about the fact that this summer we can go to after work parties and actually be like adults who have a real office job and who go to after works from there. I feel like I'm finally going to the right direction, towards a real career and that my studies are worth something. I've been working at cafés and smoothie bars for quite a long time now and it has been nice but I really hope I never have to go back to that. Wish me luck!

 

And the funny thing is, you know how frustrating this job hunting has been, I've sent almost a hundred applications and created profiles to at least twenty different recruitment web sites, and I really started to panic a little bit because if I didn't do an internship, I wouldn't pass my year. So now finally, when I got this job at Cartus, I also got one other interesting offer that I had to refuse (hope I did the right choice!) and this week and last week almost every day someone has called me for job interviews. Great.

 

As I had promised to myself a while ago that I would do, when I got the job, I walked straight away to Minelli and bought the turquoise clutch that I told you about before. It's beautiful, I'm already starting to love it as much I loved my old turquoise Minelli clutch bag. And this is just a coincidence, but the first time I wore it, I went to Montmartre for drinks with E. I walked pass the place where my old bag was stolen and I could literally feel the danger. Haha, but nothing happened, thank God. But maybe I should have bought two of them, just in case. :)

 

 

 

 

 

So a new life is really starting for me now. On Friday I had my last class at Uni and the next time I will go there for classes, that will be in October and Master's degree! We still have our final exams in the end of May and since I start my job next Thursday, I really need to organize my time if I'm going to study and have good grades. But now I'm on holidays until Thursday and I've been doing basically nothing but sleeping, partying and having fun.

 

 

I started taking it easy a little before my last class, well after the last tests. On Wednesday, beautiful weather and a piquenique catch up with R and M at Pont des Arts.

 

We saw this beautiful rose ceremony on a boat

And as always at Pont des Arts, a lovely sunset

 

 

 

On Thursday night, drinks with some of my friends from Uni to celebrate the end of classes

And later I was invited for dinner at Café Marly, terrace overlooking the pyramid of Louvre

 

 

Saturday night with M and D. First sushi and champagne at M's place, then drinks and dancing at the Kong club. Life is good.

 

Tomorrow Monday and I have nowhere to be. Perfect, I so needed these couple of days off. I don't think I'm going to do anything, just some more sleeping. And I will start studying for my exams. Maybe...

 

Love you,

xoxo: Emi

Need to be outside

Just wonderful weather again! I'm meeting with J later at Starbucks but I just couldn't stay at home anymore so I came to a nearby park with my accounting book and lecture notes and so I'm pretending to study but I'm actually just sunbathing and writing this. I love summer, life is good and I have a job interview tomorrow and another on Friday. I'm finally getting a little more hopeful and I have a feeling that everything's going to fall into place. Sunshine and +23 makes everything better. :)

xoxo: Emi

Ps. First time I post directly from my phone, we'll see how it works. ;)

Sunday summertime in my yellow summer dress

The waiting was long and painful but here it is: the SUMMER! Well maybe only for today but anyway, feels so good. I wake up early and did some studying (for example prepared my Spanish oral presentation about Sephora's marketing strategy. In Spanish, yes, great) and then went to the Gym to complete my this week's training series which I'm quite proud of: combat, zumba, attack, balance, balance, combat, balance! And the rest of the day, only sunshine and relaxing. We went to the Buttes Chaumont parc with M and C and had this year's first picnic. When we left after 6pm I was really going home to continue my studies and M was really going home to get some work done but once we got into le Marais and it was still 26 degrees (see the photo below) and lots of people outside we just couldn't. Weather like this is so rare that being inside would have been a waste of time. So we had a walk and went for dinner and drinks to Les Philosophes. Now I'm tired and a little sunburnt (but my aftersun cream smells like summer so it's okay) but I spent a great day. :)

 



piquenique food

summer dress

M enjoying the sun

blue sky

Buttes Chaumont

One of the most beautiful parcs in Paris

Just to make everyone in Finland jealous. And this was in the evening.

Eating outside, delicious salades, Mimosa-drinks and spending time with big Sis = perfection



It's very important that your drink matches your dress. Or that your dress matches your drink, that's okay as well.

After a perfect Sunday always comes a less perfect Monday. So now to bed and tomorrow some serious studying. Sweet dreams,

xoxo: Emi

Ps. Since my blog has somehow begun to resemble a food blog, here's one cute pic from our Friday night dinner with J and A. J made salmon and potatoes, like in Finland, and for dessert a fondant chocolat which was yummy. Good thing I did sports before and that we had a nice walk home with A afterwards. :)

Happy Sunday

Hey! So this week has been a little rough but today I'm finally starting to feel alive again. Thanks for everyone who has been there for me, I don't know what I would do without you. <3 And I don't know what I would do without Club Med Gym and all the Les Mills - classes. Once again, sports is the answer for everything. From now on, I will really try to go there as often as this week. Even if I'm super busy with school or with anything, I just need to go there and do a Balance, Attack or Combat because it makes me feel so good.

 

Today the sun is shining in Paris and it was actually warm when I walked home from the Gym. Now I'm enjoying my colorful healthy lunch and then I'm going to attack my favorite daily pastime - writing and sending job applications! Yey, seriously this internship hunting is not at all fun anymore if it ever was.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yesterday I even tried to have fun clubbing but I think that my party days are over. I just don't get the point of staying out the whole night and getting drunk when you could sleep well, wake up early, feel good and go to the gym for example (well I still went but it wasn't easy). But it was great to see big sis and our friend C and the pre party celebrating A's birthday was nice as well.

 

 

smiling again

Magic candles. Happy Birthday A!

At Showcase. Happy Birthday M!

 

Lot's of love,

xoxo: Emi

 

Ps. This week I've also realized once again that besides sports, singing always helps when I'm feeling down. You should try! :)