I think it's time for another blog!! I arrived back in my little North-Eastern home-town after an amazing time away working at a hotel in rural Dorset. My friend Mel (who did a degree in tv and film production so she is a pro at this kind of thing) made a series of videos highlighting the best bits of our time there.Here is the last in the installment of videos....hehe I love it!
watching that back made me realise how many awesomely fun and exciting time I had at that place. And there are so many great times we had that aren't even on that video. For example when Mel and I were asked to work at a wedding at this rather enormous manor house called Studland Bay house, it was like a Royal wedding, or one of those big weddings you see on American movies...it was a huge piss-up of a wedding event, we were meant to be serving teas and coffees but hardly anyone wanted teas and coffees and as soon as they came from the wedding they all started drinking the pimms or champagne on offer as did Mel and me. So from about 4pm onwards our boss Lynn, kept giving us more and more pink fizz much to our delight while we had many breaks and were hanging out behind the scenes in the kitchen. By this time returning to our tea and coffee station, we were completely pissed and were dancing around to the likes of Abba, Pulp, and other wedding disco classics that I can't remember cos I was to pissed. We even got a thumbs up from the groom! When the time came for us to leave, obviously we didn't want to, our boss (who was also kind of pissed) was telling us the only way we would be allowed to stay is if the bride and groom said so, luckily we met this young Bristolian college chap who was insistent that we stay and from there he shoved glasses of wine into mine and Mels hands and practically dragged us away to the dance floor. There, we met a whole host of other college age people who were just like us! completely buzzing off the free booze and dancing like mental people. I think everyone liked the fact that the staff were having a good time and dancing. The whole evening and night from about 4pm onwards was probably one of the best parties I've ever been to and it wasn't even a part it was a wedding that we hadn't even been invited to.
The sluzzy waiters party, the Sangria nights, My birthday (anything but clothes party) when some of the guys came naked with just a leaf covering their modesty, the Derren brown show, Bankes arms beer garden, piano and ukulele jam in the garden room, Rachel dressed up as 'osama's widow' chococo for Anita's birthday, sangria night at the beach, ukulele sing-alongs to a improvised mash potato song, being suprised by my brothers coming down to see me and spending an awesome week with them!, road trips to Bristol, London, Bath, End of the road festival, 80s party at studland bay house, CJ!, cider festival at the Bankes,PIERRE! finding a monkey suit on the street, singing 'son mis amigos',star-gazing,spontaneous parties, smoking joints at the pool with edu and Paco, our BRILLIANT night out in Bournemouth in the church converted into an awesome nightclub, the nights out in Swanage, SNAPS! Beanie's trumpet noise, Al being the Pope,the Royal wedding party,Twister nights, being able to stroll down to the beach at any point between shifts, the after midnight walk to old Harry rocks to watch the meteor shower, sunset at Aggelestone rock, the staff BBQ, all the other BBQs,BRIGHTON!
The best thing, and I will probably be really sentimental here, has been meeting the people that I met. Nice, cultured, interesting, kind and funny people! Meeting one of the best friends I will ever have in the shape of Melanie Vautier! And falling in love with a boy called Pepe whom is now my boyfriend! When I went there in April and honestly I really didn't like the look of it in my first couple of days, I actually found in the end, that the people I've met and the things that happened to me while there were positively life-changing! The diversity of the people and places everyone was from made it such a more interesting and fun place to be and I wouldn't have a similar experience anywhere else. I feel insanely lucky.
Meanwhile the brilliance of this year still isn't over, as soon as I arrived home I went on a job-hunting spree, it was almost too easy for me to find a job. I only handed out 3 CVs and one, a lovely little Italian restaurant opposite the ARC in Stockton got back to me and I now work for them, starting tomorrow, eek! One of my best and longest friends Jenny, got engaged two days ago and she asked me to be a bridesmaid!! Next week I am going to see the Smashing Pumpkins in London and also a Mel reunion and then in a couple of weeks Pepe is coming over hurraaayy! and we will visit Newcastle and Edinburgh!
My smashing pumpkins ticket!! :D weeeeeee!!!!!!!!!
