Slopes.... unveiled

During the week, and while studying Health Economics, I found out that the English vocabulary used in one of the chapters is basically the same used in skiing. Words like "slope" and "steep" made me despair... Exactly like during my skiing classes!!!

But after 4 hours of going back and forth in that health economics chapter, I managed to understand it and I end up answering the exercises correctly. So, this Saturday I decided to go back to the slopes and give them a new chance!!! Guess what?! It worked!

I spent the whole Saturday going up and down hill in green and blue slopes, the ones that are not very steep... And I did fine! I had a good and outdoors sporty day to contrast with the totally-inactive-and-just-sitting-at-the computer week :o) I was totally exhausted when I went to bed and I slept for 12 rewarding hours!!!

I'm absolutely starting to see the point of skiing!! :o)

Chocolate, Passion, Gossip and Ice-Cream

What do these 4 things (chocolate, passion, gossip and ice-cream) have in common??? They are great for your health!!! I'll explain it better:

1) This one, needs no further explanation besides the fact that there are gazillion studies proving their good effect in our health!! But a study published in an Italian magazine (read by me last year inside a chocolate shop), was advertising that women who ate frequently chocolate had a better and more satisfied sex life, than those women who did not ate it!!!!

2) Passion - being in love is one of the best things, one can do for the good of one's health... at least that's according to a recent study largely advertised at WRG radio station. The bad thing is, according to this scientifically accurate study, the real "in love/ great passion" mood only lasts one poor year, and after that the good hormones that were raised, decrease to their natural level the effect disappears.... :o(

3) Another Italian study proved that individuals who gossip more than 5 hours per week (if I'm not mistaken), have a decreased risk of developing several diseases like depression, CVD, etc...

4) Ice cream brings happiness to those who ate it (and also to those who sell it - and probably paid for the study that proved this). A study published last year in a Portuguese newspaper advertised that people who ate regularly ice-cream were happier than those who did not!

Hot chocolat - 3 down, no more to go.... Saved by the wisdow teeth

So, last Saturday the trip for hot chocolate/ski was to "les contamines" and for the first time, I think I had a glance of understanding of why the whole world enjoys skiing!!! I actually enjoyed going down one of the big green slopes, I liked the landscape, I didn't felt, I wasn't terrified... So it was actually enjoyable!!!

Too bad it was my last class, as I'll miss the next two classes because I need to have my wisdom teeth removed...

Maybe I enjoyed because I knew it was my last class... One never knows... Let's just hope that I won't be dragged to lots of skiing trips and Sundays afternoon of skiing... I might not resist it :o)

Corps

J'habite dans un pays de rêves: mon corps!
J'habite dans un monde sans frontières: mon corps!
J'habite dans un univers de possibilités: mon corps!
Je vivre... Mon corps c'est mon instrument!

Hot chocolat - 2 down... 3 to go

So... this week the trip for hot chocolat was to Praz de Lys... Despite the fact that hot chocolat was the main unoficial motive for this trip, this week I felt the need of a healing tea instead of healing chocolat... I know... I know, there's nothing like a hot chocolat to make the day go better, but last saturday I was too upset to be able to enjoy the chocolat and compare it to the one I took in Avoriaz... (also I it seemed to me, just from looking, that they made the hot chocolat with real milk, and I didn't want to risk paying 3 or 4 euros for a hot beverage that could taste like milk, and consequently I would not be able to drink it, as I really hate milk!!!)

Besides the fact of having the oportunity of tasting a new hot chocolat (which I didn't seased), this trip also meant to be my second experience skiing.... Probably I should be improving my skiing skills, and should also be working on my love/hate relationship with this sport, but frankly what is really improving is the hate part of my skiing relation.... I just don't see the point of spending the day going down and coming up an icy hill...

Plus... all the body work that skiing implies is totally "anti-natura" to my own body and to all my muscles... I spent more than 13 years educating all my muscles to work with and for the "en dehors" design (feet, knees and hips... all of them positioned to the outside), and know at the age of 25 I'm forcing them to go "en dedans"... They really complain about this, and I don't blame them at all!!!

Another thing is where your weight is suposed to be put on... In skiing is always to the front, pressuring your boots... but to the front is downhill and why should I want to through my body weight downhill when I really don't want to go down... Plus, the person is supose to enjoy the high speeds that you can get from skiing, but me.... I'm just terrified with speed on skis and with what that speed my imply if one falls to the ground....

So... skiing is really not my future, but as I already paid for it... better use it and try to enjoy it... plus, going to the montains means sun and blue sky... which you can't see downtown for weeks... so if not for the chocolat, then at least the sun should be a good enough reason to get me out of bed next saturday!

Hot chocolat - 1 down... 4 more to go!!

Under the pretext of learning ski, I signed up for a tour for hot chocolat.

The first one was last saturday to Avoriaz.... Taking ski lessons, might not be the easiest way to get to the hot chocolat, but still... is a socially accepted ritual... So, I got up at 6.23 am, put on my super-duper "Letizia Ortiz's" skiing suit and forced myself to the torture of going in a bus for approximately 2 hours listening to the french radio station "Nostalgie"!!! (believe me.... the french music was the worst part of the all day, specially because it repeated itself on the way back!!!!!).

My relationship with the skiis was never peaceful, but with Robert guiding, these long sticks attached at my feet were kind of managable.... I felt on the floor a couple of times, felt badly whenever a 4 year old child would pass me by shouting "Attention!!", had some laughs realizing that the others, just like me, were having marital issues with their skiis, but then.... at 4.30 in the evening I got my reward: A nice and warm hot chocolat!!!!! Was it worth it??? Of course it was!!

Life can be this simple... just use chocolat to recover from exhaustion, and it doesn't matter how tired or bad your day was... It will always make you feel better :o)

Airports

Again back to the airport.... arriving alone to an airport it's never easy to me! Crossing the "entry" door knowing that I won't have anyone waiting to pick me up, puts me face to face with this incomparable feeling of loneliness!

It's usually those 15-25 minutes between the landing and the taxi stopage at my door, those are the worst minutes.... My heart shrinks, I feel as if I don't belong anywhere, I wish I didn't travelled, I wish I saw life simply, I wish I was like everyone else and have anyone else's life in order not to submit my self to the torture of travelling all the time between my family, friends and work....

But then, smoothly the taxi drives through the city, I take some time to breed and enjoy the view of the place I chose to live for the time being, until finally we're at my door step... I get off the car, pick up my stuff, open the door... and slowly the feeling of loneliness starts to vanish...
It's always like this whatever the city, whatever the airport.... Lisbon, Geneva.... the ritual of arriving completely alone always makes me travel trough the deepest doubts about the way I'm conducting my life, and how alone we really are to face our own path...

But fortunately this awful feeling doesn't last too long... so by the time I turn on the ipod and finish my shower.... Life is again back to normal and not the scariest thing I can imagine!

Happy New Year and lot's of chocolat all year round!!

The taste of Hapiness

And so I looked through the window and thought.... I'm actually the luckiest person on earth!

In that moment everything was just so perfect.... the Mont Blanc, the afternoon sun light, the buildings, the bridge, the strangers around me, the bycicles, the coffee, the brownie, the Christmas music.... Just like the beginning or the end of one of those happy romantic comedies with a perfect scenario.....

Only you were missing smiling at me on the other side of the window.... but besides that.... I thought "my life will never be better than this"..... This must be what hapiness tastes like!!!

Just...

Why is it so hard to get along
Why is it so hard to understand you
Why can't I just say I'm sorry I wasn't what you needed
I'm sorry I run away
I'm sorry I'm not part of your life
I'm sorry I don't want to be part of your life
I'm sorry I don't don't know how to do things better
I'm sorry I missed so many moments
I'm so sorry I don't know ho to reach you
I'm sorry if my existence maid your life harder so many times
I'm sorry for always wanting to be perfect
I'm sorry if I didn't say I love you as frequently as I wanted
I'm sorry if you don't believe I that I admire you so much
I'm sorry you never understood me
I'm sorry I was never able to let you know
I'm sorry for all the times you felt lonely and I wasn't there to help
I'm sorry if I didn't save you from suicidal thoughts
I'm sorry you felt so many times that I was in your place
I'm sorry you lived the worst of my life
I'm sorry you went through my path

I'm sorry....
I'm just so sorry I could never fulfill your needs
I'm just so deeply sorry for not doing things better For not knowing....
I'm sorry for defending myself
I'm sorry I was always so far away
I'm sorry if I seemed insensitive
I'm sorry
I'm just so deeply sorry....

The beggining

Below is the first post I wrote when this blog started in another address... I like it, and the philosophy behind any post I write is still the same... I still post what I like, whether is chocolate related or not, so I decided to start in this new home with the same message: I'm a chocaholic, and I like it!

First post in the old chocaholic's blog:

"Just to let you know (you being any person who ever decides to take time to read any piece of this blog), that I created it not only to talk about addiction to chocolat, but also to write whatever I want/ need/ feel like/ etc/ etc.... Some things might be true, others will probably be fiction, and since you don't know what is true or fiction.... better not use these contents for any other purpose rather than pure entertainment!!!

So, the only identified as a true statement in this blog is: "I'm a chocaholic, and I like it!" :o)