Belonging

It starts for me when people ask me " Where are you from?", I just never know what to answer, French Mexican I reply, then comes all the questions about why and when, then I have to go through all the countries I have lived in and born. Everytime I meet someone new they're like "wow! that's so cool", maybe it is at the begining and I cant really complain to be honest but this is my most important question I ask myself and the one that keeps coming back " Where am I really from?" which kind of links to the question "Where do I belong?".

In my heart I feel like I am mexican more than I am french but I have never lived in Mexico, most of my family lives there, the most special person to me also lives there, it's where I feel more like home.

Travelling around makes you meet lots of new people but that doesn't mean they'll be your closest friends, and yes it's cool to travel around, discover new cultures, new ways of life but it's always good to come back home or at least that's what I think. Most people I know think the place they live is shit but you don't realise what you have until it's gona as they say. The place I call "home" at the moment is in England, been there for seven years which is most of my teenage years, I love it there and I have some of my best friends there but sometimes I feel like I don't really belong there.

That's what I am feeling at the moment, I feel like I don't really belong anywhere, which makes me feel empty...

Im very open minded to all the changes that have happened in my life and grateful that they have happened but the feeling of not belonging, not having somewhere to identify me from just makes me sad. It may sound pathetic to you but for me it's important.

"The hunger to belong is not merely a desire to be attached to something.  It is rather sensing that great transformation and discovery become possible when belonging is sheltered and true."

1 month

1 month and amazing new friends

Cooking is like making love

Cooking is like making love...
It's all about giving pleasure to the other person...

Angry Chef

This chef got angry because he was sacked...
Love the moment where he get hit by one of the other cooks.
Enjoy
Angry Chef

King of Pastry

 I cannot wait until this film comes out!!
It looks amazing and I think will really reflect the M.O.F competiton, I hope I will get to see it in Santiago if not I will have to wait and buy it in DVD.
Here's the link to see the trailer.
Kings of Pastry

The start of something new

So here's my first post, I don't know how well it's going to be but my friend Alex inspired me to make one and I think it can be pretty interesting.

After thinking it carefully I decided to make one of the most important decision in my life which I had been thinking for a long time, probably since I was a little girl. When I went to restaurants I always told my parents that in the future I wanted to become a waitress, I always liked the atmosphere of the restaurants. My passion for food grew stronger over the years and moving around the world discovering new cultures of food probably increased this interest. I have to also mention that both my grandmas made delicious food and that one can always learn from them.

So here I am in Santiago, Chile studying culinary arts, to say it in a posh way. Completly different career than my original one which was International Relations and Spanish but it is the one that I love. Why Chile, well that's a long story but I also wanted something new  in a country that I had never lived, I like new experiences, they bring challenges into your life. I have now been here for three weeks and I have started getting use to all the new things around me, mostly integrating to my new school and friends, not yet on things like chiliean idioms because there are too many but maybe by th eend of my three years i'll be able to understand them.

Yes, as you must have understood by now, I love cooking but what I enjoy the most is the patisserie part of the career. I hope that with the education I will receive from this school I will be able too develop my passion to a further level. It is important in your life to have goals and trying to reach them well mine is to have my own patisserie somewhere but probably in Latin America, that is after having travelled the world to work or doing workshops to get better in what I do, and maybe one day win one of this famous international competiton of pastry.

Patisserie is what I want to do, it's what deep down I have alwasy wanted to do and I know that I will make the best of my opportunities to reach what I want to do. I don't know where life will take me but I know that I will always have the support of my parents, which I have to thank them so much because without them this wouldn't have been possible.

Well this is it for my first post, hopefully there will be more to come...