All the gear, and no idea.

The best thing about this season will be the fact i'm living in the alps for 6 months. WHO can complain?!

Though it has caused a serious case of 'All the gear, and no idea'.

I have spent to my hearts content, accumulating a mixture of bits and bobs i feel are necessary for my season, the latest purchase being a brand new pair of Oakley goggles (best. purchase. ever).

Snap chat courtesy of my dad.

Whilst getting saddened about my current bank account status (though my worries have been half uplifted by getting paid last Friday), I started to think that budgeting on ski equipment is a feat the best of us could not succeed at. Anyway who knows, the case of 'all gear and no idea' may be uplifted and i'll be a professional skier before you know it.........

One of my purchases was my own hand held whisk/blender, as requested by my employers. The realisation of my cooking ability hit due to the small fact I wasn't sure what one even looked like. This spurred me to organise a dinner party for friends and family to test it all out next week (What was I thinking?!). 

Stay tuned for an update from yours truly - a supposed skier extraordinaire and domestic goddess combined.

P.S. 2 weeks and 3 days until I'm in the alps!

Hell's Kitchen.

A couple of weeks ago reality hit: The ski company I'm working for sent through the recipes I'm going to have to produce week in, week out, to the highest of standards.

One would not say one is a chef, I've cooked plenty a stir fry whilst I was a uni student, which my housemates will vouch for, and also competed in a spin off 'Come dine with me' with a group of friends (I was the winner might I add..). But the beautiful, gourmet 3 course meals and cake a day scenario that my employers have implemented made me suddenly realize I was going to have to work rather hard once abroad!


So I've become a domestic goddess in my mum's eyes - she loves that I have to practice as she gets to taste the finished product!


Well, as everyone says: Practice makes perfect!


- if you need to find me, I'll be in the kitchen.

The run up to 'living the dream'.

2013 has been a big year. I’ve graduated from the University of Leicester with a 2.1 in Psychology and been thrown into the big wide world of ‘growing up’ and ‘work’.

But that is something i’m just not quite ready for yet…. so I’ve decided to take a year out and embark on the challenge of 'living the dream'.

A little bit about myself to set the scene:

- I’m small, 5 ft 1 to be precise. Not a hindrance by any means, however despite that, the small jokes have followed me around throughout my life.

- Brown hair, brown eyes and witty banter that will clearly be present through the reading of this blog.

- I’m a unbelievably keen skiier: I learnt at the age of 7 when I lived in Japan and developed it at uni, becoming President of the University of Leicester Ski and Snowboard Club and developing a passion for dry slope racing.

- And I do have sensible life plans eventually: To become a primary school teacher.

So I took on the initiative and am now joining many as a chalet girl for the season 2013/14, with this blog detailing the ups and downs of ‘living the dream’.

Au revoir.





(I'm using the film Chalet girl as an accurate account of what to expect i.e. Ed Westwick arriving as one of my guests).