Traveling in Style.

After running around to five different Ross', my sister and I found the entire Kathy Van Zeeland luggage set. We were able to get it for more than 50% off the original price! I loved the red color, very Spanish to me. Can't wait to take these to Spain and travel in style!

Twisted Spring Break.

While my Spring Break ended up being a scary one with my uncle having a heart attack, I can at least say that my interview for the Spain internship went great! Since I traveled to New York for the family emergency, I did it there. I was pretty nervous, especially when my cousin cut off the internet during the Skype interview!!!! Luckily the interviewer called me back and was very kind about it. Best part is, she thought my Spanish was great! She even suggested that I take a Catalan class instead of a Spanish class when I get there.

I am more excited than ever now! I did a little shopping with my aunt while I was in New York. Picked up some Maybelline, NYX and Revlon makeup products (some are shown below) and Forever 21 spring apparel. These are definitely things I will bring to Spain with me this summer :)

FIT ME Foundation in Soft Beige (315). Like it so far!

NYX Jumbo Pencils (I got Bronze, Dark Brown & Black Bean) <3

Revlon Colorstay Lipstick in Soft Nude <3

A Plan to Make Plans.

This is a photo of Parc Guell in Barcelona. A must-see attraction. It holds the best view of the city. And guess what? I am one step closer to seeing it!
I just recently got accepted to an internship program in Barcelona, Spain. A trip like this has been n the works since I started college. I have always had a plan for summer plans. Wow, that sounds pathetic... I made plans to make plans.

So I decided how I would spend my summers:

Summer #1: "Finally, get a job Stephanie. I think most 18 year old's have had a job by now!"

I ended up working in Charlotte Russe, a store I still love but I would never work there again. There is something about working in a store you love that just doesn't mix. It loses its special-ness.

Summer #2: "Make your way into your future. First step, internship. Where? NOT HERE."

I always wanted to go to Greece ever since I saw The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. But Greece is not the ideal location to be living at for a summer especially with protests and riots radically occurring. I will eventually visit, but for now Spain will do. My roots are in Spain and I am dying to experience the culture while interning at a public relations firm.

Summer #3: "Intern again. DC? NYC? Somewhere, but NOT HERE."

I want to gain as many experiences as I can while in college. And I want thoseexperiences to interest me and benefit me. I have always wanted to go back to my birthplace, New York, and intern in a company (most likely a cosmetics company). However, DC is looking more and more interesting as I see my sisters life blossom in our beautiful capital.

Now I am ready to take on Summer #2!!!! Next week I will be interviewed over the phone in Spanish and from there I will start working with the site director to find the perfect internship. I leave May 23rd and stay for eight weeks. I will be creating a new blog soon solely about the steps it took to get to Barcelona. I will then continue to update it while I am in my internship this summer. :) Hasta pronto!

Just in :)

Just got my Naked Palette. I had to wait two weeks since I sent it to my home address. But, my lovely mother brought it to me today and I am in awe. I LOVE IT. No surprise though, I knew I would.

Freshly Purchased!!!

So I am about to find out why this popular eyeshadow palette from Urban Decay has been out of stock since last June!!

I have been to Sephora's since then to simply look around and EVERY time.. no Naked palettes! So naturally, I needed to have one!

I've been on the waiting list since December (that's when I realized eBay wouldn't sell it for less than half it's price).

Finally after my friend Sam spread the word, I found it at UrbanDecay.com and bought it ASAP.

Now of course they jacked the price up $4 because a brush is now included instead of a pencil, but I don't care. I am now an owner of this palette that everyone wants. Envy me. Please do.

Cant wait til it comes in!!

Pittsburgh - Part 1

I'm on an airplane right now on my way back to Tampa without any internet or Glee episodes to watch so I figured I’d blog. Dear Lord has it been a hectic travel day!! As I wrote before I was in Pittsburgh for a conference. It was paid for by my university for me, three other students, and our advisor to attend a tour guide conference for two nights. It’s great that the university paid for everything but let me tell you it’s not all peaches and cream when things are “free”. My mother was always told by her mother that nothing in life is free. Somehow you have to pay for it. Well naturally, she passed it down to me and my sister and every time I get something free I always have this hope that it will be great and wonderful and feel so lucky to have been blessed with such kindness. But life is life. And that means, somehow you have to pay for it.

Of course Pittsburgh was amazing (I’ll blog about that in another post with pictures); but like I said before, the traveling was hectic and to put it simply it sucked! The university wanted us to purchase the cheapest tickets and lay-over’s were the way to go. Unfortunately, I hate lay-over’s. But I figured I could deal with that. That was until they put us on a plane the size of my living room complete with a total of 20 seats!! The propeller was right next to me sounding like a wind shield wiper cleaning a dry wind shield. For some reason I wasn’t that nervous, I actually felt relaxed because I get sleepy on planes but then the lady next to me kept saying that the turbulence wasn’t normal. OK, lets think about this. Who in their right mind would want to tell someone that?! Honestly, don’t scare people, that’s how panic and hysteria occur and then you end up sitting next to a lunatic who needs to vomit and there’s no bathroom on the plane!!! Just kidding there was a bath room on the plane but unfortunately there wasn’t a light switch so the stewardess had to turn it on for whoever needed to use it.

So right now I'm on a normal plane, the kind with three seats on each side, with my pink UPitt sweatshirt, some Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and I feel better. There’s a little turbulence and a really smelly guy two seats behind me but hey, at least I got a twenty minute nap with my mouth wide open to show everyone my seven thousand dollar mouth! Sexy, I know. Unfortunately I have to work tomorrow and help my mom with a garage sale, but I do it for love. OH and speaking of my UPitt sweatshirt that my friends will kill me for because they are our rival team, I really really wish that my school had stands in the side of the road selling $15 sweatshirts. I mean, who wants to spend $60 for a bookstore sweatshirt when you can get a replica?! They had five dollar shirts too! I was stunned and yet so jealous at the same time.

Ok, the pilot just said we’ll be landing so I'm gonna stop writing. Just to reiterate, I had a great time in Pittsburgh I really did! Just never fly Continental… ever.

Pittsburgh Bound! .. who knew Pittsburgh had an "H" at the end?

So there is a conference going on at the University of Pittsburgh and since I am on the Executive Board for the Green and Gold Guides at USF, I get to go represent our Bull pride :) Unfortunately, that means I have to set my alarm for three o clock in the morning so I can catch a seven o clock flight to Atlanta and from there grab a flight to Pittsburgh. However I am expecting to have some fun and sight see a little. Hopefully I get a chance to blog while I am there. Anyway, I gotta get to packing. It was my intent to pack this morning but I got this urge to see Armageddon and we all know how long that movie is (except for me of course because this was my first time watching it).

I'll be posting pictures soon :)

HASTA!