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I made this today, on photoshop- nothing special really, I just found an illustration and then added colour. But it was added to my collage for my project (which is taking a little longer than I hoped!). I call it bird on LSD :)

I do however have some exciting news- I just got an invite to the Lusia Via Roma party on June 11th. It is the closing dinner for their Firenze4Ever event. The dress code says- Animalier- so animal print (ek!). Here is my problem, I dont really own anything animals print, so I will either have to get creative or just wear a dress with a snakeskin purse ( I am thinking this is what I will do, leopard and me dont really go...).

2 more days until Sardinia!

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In June, Polimoda is having a fashion show, where the fourth year students will show their collections.

They emailed out to everyone that there was going to be a casting call at Luisa Via Roma looking for people to take part in the show. I decided that I had nothing to loose, so I went and filled out forms and got my picture taken. A shop worker took my measurements as I had no idea what measurements I was- I felt slightly awkward when after writing down my measurements, she showed her clipboard to a fellow shop keeper and said "bellisima". I didnt really understand that?

Unfortunately because the forms were in Italian I wasn't all that sure what I was signing for...but I think there is a contest of some sort, or at least thats what I could gather from the form? So I will keep everyone posted about that.

When I was leaving the store, the camera man noticed I had my camera along so he asked if I wanted a picture, we took about 3 different pictures and they all came out dark- for some odd reason my camera wouldn't adjust its settings? So the third picture I have posted is the interesting photo the camera man took- sorry for it being so dark, I tried to lighten it.

After the casting, everyone met up for a happy hour at a Mexican restaurant in the Centre. The food was delicious and the drinks were cheap. After the happy hour, we made our way to the Red Garter where they had karaoke.We only had one girl from our group sing!

Randomly I met a girl named Amy from Calgary, it was quite funny when she told me where she was from and then said her name. I think judging from the state she was in- she was more excited than I was :P

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Since it was Friday I decided to take to opportunity to relax a bit and walk around the Centre, I made my way back to LuisaViaRoma and tried on the dress (see previous post about Giambattista Valli-as I couldn't wait any longer). Lets just say it looked way better on the hanger than on. First of all it had way to much happening, I slightly felt like I has silk flowers blooming everywhere and it was awkward to even put my arms down.- you can see from my face how I felt...

We all decided to meet up for apertivo at Dolce Vita, I didn't end up staying long because I had previous plans to meet up with my roommate at another restaurant- Moyo, to celebrate a friends birthday. However we were all going to meet at this place called- the Eskimo Club after apertivo and catch the happy hour going on there.So I ended up at Moyo were I had multiple servings of their barley salad- highly recommend- and other delicious food. Then I made my way to the Eskimo Club, luckily I had ran into everyone on the way, so we all ventured together to try and find this place....well we found it......closed! There was a lock on the door and it looked like it had been closed for quite some time.....does'nt really make sense to me to market a place that is closed? But perhaps thats Italy for you :P

Just down the block there were people standing outside of a pub, so we decided to just hang out there and see what happens. We were greeted by the very friendly doorman, who ended up being our bartender in the end. As there was a large group of us, it was tough to find seating in this little place, but we managed. I turned and asked if there was any specials going on, unfortunately the happy hour had just ended but I was told that I could get a special. Slightly intrigued I agreed to this...then I was told- but you know you have to take this drink how I request you take it. Slightly scared, I once again agreed and was then given a flaming shot. Basically you had to light it on fire, shake it up, and then take a deep breath- or so that was my instructions. It was highly stressed that I needed to breathe in deeply- slightly puzzled I asked why and was told- well it could be slightly dangerous if you don't

-oh lord, I don't know what im getting myself into here-

In my mind, I wasn't sure what was going to happen, maybe I would breathe fire or something? I don't know?! So I followed the instructions and what happens is when you take a deep breath your throat feels like ice. After I took the shot I was kinda disappointed, I mean, I was expecting something crazy to happen but it was still cool none the less. Afterwards, the doorman made us drinks to test out, a mojito and his special (mix between peach and orange)- delicious! We ended up getting a round of both. I turned to him and inquired about any jobs that they might have available- he said that the owner would be there in 40mins or so and he would be the better person to ask, but he did say I could come and dj there and host an evening. I laughed because- of all people- me to dj? I thought- hhmm well ok this could work...then after I ended up going behind the bar and playing songs from my ipod. The owner showed up and we talked, he was fascinated at the fact I was from the Caribbean and he couldn't get over that I was from there. He told me to come back tomorrow night and we can talk more about it- so I might have a job! Which is great because it will give me a little extra spending money to travel and what not.

After the pub, which is called- The Joshua Tree Pub, some of us headed back to Dolce Vita. Everyone there was dancing and having a good time. Funny enough the music that they were playing reminded of 50's style music, it was something that I really wouldn't expect to be dancing to in Italy. It was great fun, and definitely a workout (from dancing so much)- I never knew that Italian people liked to dance to that kind of music, they also like to twirl you a lot too...?