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United Nations Smoking Crew…Its Saturday I’m in Love

October 21, 2009

I am so glad I have a smokers crew now to enjoy the lovely Marlboro Gold, Marlboro lights, Marlboro, and occasional Parisienne Jaunes with! As my office mate would say: “You know its the smokers who are the fun ones. At a party it’s always the smokers who are the crazy ones, the ones with the stories, the ones who want to drink. Its the non-smokers who are boring.”

I work with the web team, and as we say in the office mate

“If you don’t understand the Navigation, Go for Meditation” and go I do.

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this lovely graphic is posted outside of my office door

This meditation time is when we come up with many words of wisdom of life and at the UN.

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The conclusion of he day was. I hate Tuesdays! they suck, they drag on the worst. Monday is application day. Wednesdays (aka humpday) are the best, (and are also prime for focus and getting work done days ) but they are the BEST because they are half way away from funny weekend memories and half way towards future weekend plans. Thursday is the new friday, friday is the new weekend. and Saturday i’m in love (cue in reference to 1990s here aka the cure)! Sunday is Raggaeton day….then it starts all over again.

Monday – application day. Tuesday gym day.

Wednesday – the best day (and the best day to get work done)

Thursday- the new friday. Friday? the new weekend

and saturday i’m in love!

Sunday, Funday! it’s raggaeton class. and REMIX

and it starts all over again!

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more conclusions from today:

blargh is the new black.

gay is the new hetero.

metro is the new gay.

that is all.

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Some days when i’m sitting at my desk I can focus and get work done.

But other days things seem so stale and sterile – that it feels like a little bit of my beautiful bright soul dies,

it feels like i’ve sold my soul to the bureaucracy.

Beige. is what it is right now.

xox.

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I REFUSE TO UPGRADE!

October 21, 2009

To reintroduce myself as the “LBI Queen,” I hosted a 1990s party – WE REFUSE TO UPGRADE!!! some flicks from our very 90s outfits….

Flashback Spice Girls!

Why do we refuse to upgrade?! ummmmm Gameboys, hightops, wutang clan, spice girls, aqua, venga boys, walkmans, neon colours, floral prints, overalls, fresh prince, and ZACH MORRIS PHONES! Need I say more?!

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a new orange phone?

The next generation of INTERN MADNESS will be headed by the ZACH MORRIS phone (as pictured above) because I REFUSE TO UPGRADE! R.I.P. ORANGE PHONE your legacy has been born at the 1990s party. As I said at the party, in my famous speech to the crowd (which turned out to be around 50 people in the end) and I will say it again.

It isn’t about going to the bar, it isn’t about going to the Pub, ITS ABOUT REPRESENTING! So TONIGHT we REPRESENT the new generation. all said of course by raising the phone in victory….

this time i put it on a necklace so i wouldn't lose it!

<3 these girls!

1990s!

But where do I find such retro things like random Zach Morris phones? Which was actually called “Portaphone (r) 2000″ cause you know that’s what 2000 looked like in the 1990s. Nasch Market of course!!! What is Nasch? I wonderfully beautiful and atmospheric place that is a flea market, and food market, as well as other various items.

some examples from a few years back

nasch summer 2007

In addition to buying antipasto, veggies, fresh breads, etc. You can also sit at a bistro in Nasch and get an XXXL Schnitzel, which is what I did two weeks ago before searching for second hand retro treasures for the 1990s party!

XXXL Schitzel

XXXL Schnitzel

yummmmers….what a lovely place to eat. We were ALL happy with our meals, and especially happy that a donut sample lady was nice enough to bring over a little something something for us to taste at our table…..and THROUGH THE BUSHES! It was funny I kept peeking at her….I’m talking deep fried doughnuts

I am happy with my XXXL Schnitzel

the nice sample lady...even climbed OVER the bushes!

After our lunch we went searching for treasures….It was a GOLDEN day for me….I found a sequin hat (for 1 euro), two purses (4 euro each), AND a random leather vest, PERFECT for the 1990s….and of course the new ZACH MORRIS phone to REPRESENT the legacy of the old orange phone.

Here is how satisfied my trip to Nasch that day made me:

8323_148605412543_501982543_2723222_1261380_n And the aftermath of the 1990s party?! A string of funny quotes and one LONG hungover sunday spent lounging and eating pizza…….ah yess hangover sunday with my telephone and a beanbag chair @ Emma’s

8323_148605517543_501982543_2723233_5496965_n Thanks again Emma Bell for helping me host a kick ass part at your wonderful Museums Quartier Studio!

xox

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CaraVision One Liners – Golden

October 11, 2009

ohhhhh its wonderful to be in love! It brings happiness, and joy and funtimes anywhere….ahhhhhh young love!!! Happy times call for funtimes, which then are followed by funny things that are done and said!! Here is a summary of the recent quotes that come to mind

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Prater fairground weird statues

Hailey: ummmmm people are posing with the statues

Cara: butttttt no one is taking any pictures

(nor was there any camera)

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Cara: DVDS! I LOVE DVDs, you can’t get DVD deals in Vienna, they don’t have bins. The five dollar bins. WE HAVE TO GO TO WALMART TO BUY DVDs…DVDS DVDS DVDS

Kim: Wow, didn’t know you felt so strongly about DvD’s

Cara: well now you do.

enter night out clubbing night and seeing alot of old friends

Random: so how come your visiting Ottawa? its wack!

Cara: i came to shop at walmart and buy DVDs

enter after partying

Daniel: Wanna come to my house, this party is getting lame…

Cara: ummmmm I don’t know

Daniel: We can watch DvDs

Kim: really? because Cara LOVES DVDS!

dvds.

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Kenny: CARA I LOVE YOU COME STAY WITH ME, I WILL BUY YOU ONE DRESS A MONTH

Cara: One dress a month?!? that changes EVERYTHING!

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3:45 fight by the fountain, no principles, no student teachers. United Nations? or International High School?

I’ve decided, have you?

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pokerface night.

Jorge: Cara the strategy is that you have to analyze the card situation….

Cara: JUST TELL ME MY OPTIONS! MY OPTIONS! DO I CHECK OR DO I BET?

pokerface!!!!

Cara: I just want to live an alternative lifestyle! i’m sick of pokerfacing life!

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Random: who is this kenny guy? your boyfriend?

Brian: ughhh didn’t you know?! he’s her boyfriend through “reservation,” like you know when you call and reserve a table, but you don’t have the food yet but you know your going to eat at that restaurant at 8. its like that

Random: how does that work?

Cara: its CARAVISION

alternative.

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Random: So your in public information, what would you like to do with your life? I want to be a diplomat.

Cara: I want to move to Toronto and find The Fame. I wanna be a VoxPop super star or work on MuchMusic, I wanna work with Pop culture Media.

Random: So why are working at the UN?

Cara: because I can.

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lady gaga.

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big rings.

Cara: It’s ok I could take her, just gotta wear a ring that cuts. See this ring? it cuts!

If i punched you, IT WOULD CUT. but I wouldn’t punch you…but I could if I had to, cause its the ring it cuts! As long as you have a ring that cuts.

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enter 1990s party in MQ, Zach Morris phone necklaces (stay tuned for epic photo update!)

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Cara: Hello? WHAT DO YOU MEAN ITS NOT 1994?!?

Cara: WE REFUSE TO UPGRADE!

Cara: I think i’m going to take off my phone necklace now (1990s phone)

Hayley: NO STOP! you have to keep it on! this was mentioned like it was a life mission

Cara: OMG that is soooooooo 1992! hold on i’m getting a call from my zach morris phone…

Cara: OMG if you love the 1990s why don’t you marry it? Just kidding, NOT!

Hayley: Whatever, AS IF

aftermath: Apparently there was Proper paparazzi at the party, we are thinking it was either VICE or Vienna Fashion Observatory! HOPE HOPE HOPE its VICE…stay tuned….

epic hangover. the one like in the movie had to piece together the whole night from clues….lost cell phone, but not 1990s zach morris phone

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Pizza & topfell strudel @ Emma’s solves all, so does laying on beanbag chairs, chain smoking, and laughing about what an AWESOME weekend it has been……in between fantasizing about DESSERT BUFFET, which in theory would include:

pink cupcakes,

lemon merange,

banofe,

ice scream sundays,

topstrudel,

crumble,

peacan pie,

tirimusu,

rum balls,

cotton candy,

eadible bubbles,

brownies,

and everyhing in between!

check in for 1990s updates <3

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Bad Romance….can’t Wait!

October 7, 2009

I CANNOT WAIT FOR LADY GAGA’s single…Bad Romance to come out (amongst other things xox)! She sings a bit here:

p.s. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the orbit around her….

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How appropriate timing Lady Gaga – I was just telling my new found designer friends today about my little love story which they said I could write into a “Bad Romance” but it would be called “One Dress a Month”

I am so stoked about the plan revisitited….it has been revisited already…HOWEVER…this will remain a mystery until the plan takes place….muhahahahahah stay tuned!!!

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Perhaps a prelude….

I found love – I could feel it coming from him to me before I verbalized the thought we both shared – I stuttered & Almost didn’t say it but I could feel it was right – I could feel the thought & could hear him say it without words.

I broke – but not my heart, only the silence.

I gave in – I fucking love him.

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Ick factor/Bad Romance material?! I THINK SO!

“It’s complicated and stupid, got my ass squezzed by sexy cupid” – lady gaga, lovegame

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CaraVision reports: LBI updates

October 7, 2009

Before Vannessa <3 left. I did an impromptu explanation of how the LBI (a.k.a. lunch break initiative) breaks by the fountain work.

What is the LBI? A social network of interns coordinated by popular demand decisions and summarized by me in a daily email. I am also known at the United Nations as the LBI girl, the one who puts allllllll our fun ideas in a fun packed newsletter type email. I am also responsible for keeping a housing list, and providing the interns at the United Nations with updates on social events, after work activities, and of course weekend fun

click here for the EXCLUSIVE LBI Report…(short video clip)

On the Agenda this weekend?!

RETRO – WE REFUSE TO UPGRADE – 1990s Theme Party

BOYAKASHA! My spirit is back, which means the LBI is back in full effect.

xoxo

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The Plan Revisited.

October 5, 2009

Ok so I obtained an internship at the IAEA (aka International Atomic Energy Agency, aka United Nations Nuclear Watchdog, aka MTPIIIII), I made and spent alot of money. I met Lady Gaga, I saw one of my first friends (of ten years) get married, i’ve gone to Canada and back and fallen in love, I also starting training at the gym.

2009 year of CARA is almost over…so its time to revisit the plan. last time i left off it was january 2009 and I have done all thats on that list….including LOTS OF DANCING!

So What is leaving my time here incomplete? CARA TOURS EUROPE of course….

the timeline: until Summer 2010

the plan:

-finalize renewal of internship (consultancy was not an option in the end), this internship gives me medical coverage and a VISA not too shabby

-research the 400 euro train ticket that allows you to travel throughout europe for a month

- live like a vagabond until spring. this means – cheap eats, corner bistros, hidden treasures, learning to sew & make my own fashion, doing my own nails, and shopping at flea market.

-why? so i can put away 1/2 of my paycheque in the “Cara tours europe” fund.

-visit with Sarita & Julie who are coming here….

- BE PATIENT! The Spring comes adventure, and the summer brings me a safe return to the Homeland (Canada)

-throw theme parties in the meantime to distract myself…and DANCE DANCE DANCE & SING SING KARAOKE…of course!

Have I missed anything? The plan MIGHT have to be revisited again, depending on the the Job market in Canada & the recent fact that the one I have fallen for is far far away……

stay tuned!

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p.s. lady gaga on SNL I LOVE IT!

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Prater Fair Grounds – A Peek at a 1970s Sinister Horror Movie

October 2, 2009

So the day I met Emma….I thought she would get a kick outta the Prater Fairgrounds in Vienna. How might I explain the atmosphere of this place….

A retro, sinister, cheesy, and tacky midway which is open all the time. It is reminiscent of a zombie movie in the 1970s….or Buffy the Vampire Slayer Circa 1992:

loved this movie

There are inexplicable things at the Prater…..along with the classic fair atmosphere. It is these inexplicable things that give the prater so much CHARACTER!

Here are some EXPLICABLE flix….just a great atmosphere:

Nothin says fairground without a HOLE pic

bringing out the innerchild

just a little beer garden before rides

beauty

our excitement for going on rides!

stopping for cotton candy

here we go!!

loves it

BUT I WANNA GO ON THAT ONE!

THE CLOWN LOOP DE LOOP!

Ok so these seem like normal fairground occurances….but then you run into the statues, and the weird “it’s a small world rides,” which don’t really make sense at all! However, they are still enjoyable in some strange way – why? It’s the fact that they exist at all. I mean WHAT WHERE THEY THINKING? It seems to be that whomever created such masterpieces must have been on some sort of hallucigents, or possibly had a little more than one voice in their mind. EITHER WAY! I thought it was amazing….definately remiscent of Rob Zombie’s House of 1000s corpses for some reason…

one of the more innocent ones..

ummmm?

a close up of the madness!

yea i'm down with it

and again!

To make sense of this madness – we thought we would check out the warped it’s a small world ride. Which had these disgustingly horribly beautiful dolls on display in the front:

Display in front of the ride!

The first car of the ride was headed by a blue smurf – YES THE BLUE SMURF WOULD LEAD US TO CLARITY!

boarded on our smurf car!

the smurf lead the way!

Once on the ride – things were still unclear. Was it a collaboration of all fairytales? or reject fairytales gone bad? Or was it the result of what fairytales would be like if they were for a grown ups audience that happen to be on some sort of drugs? or was it FAIRY TALES FROM HELL?!

you decide…

little red riding hood?

the three little pigs minus that last brick house?

merlin?

queen elizabeth? & joker?

but of course!

I took some footage too because this ride was just tooooo classic!!

I LOVE IT!

I want to go to Prater like every weekend naturally. Its my fav thing to do in Vienna!

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I understood the Pizza Man!

March 27, 2009

I went to pick up a pizza tonight for my family, and I was like sorry “no speake deutsch.”

He asked: Wie kommen sie?

(I paused…wait i’ve heard this in german class!)

I said: Ich Komme Aus Kanada!

He said: acccchh So! something about ziemlich kanadischen Frau.

yay i understood something

Wunderbar!

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I heart Bryan Adams.

March 26, 2009

that is all.

Missin some of yous <3

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Whatchaaaaa Doin?!

March 26, 2009

Accccchhh sooo, Servus!

I survived the aftermath of the ball. The interns now know who I am. I pulled a CARA at the ball. for those who know me, you know what this entails. Because it still holds true, nobody tells me what to do!

The aftermath: injury to the toe –> I HATE WOMEN’S SHOES! This time someone did help me find my “glass slipper”….how disney, unfortunately there was blood on it when i got home….ohhhh the pain! Recovery mode took all week.

LBI at the UN = Lunch Break Initiative. The Intern Social Network here…there seems that there is always something going on, and everyone is very sociable which I love! The guy who coordinates it (the LBI guy) sends an email to everyone with a list of activities going on every week. There is a party this saturday, things won’t get crunked this time! We are Gonna dance all night, and be like Whaattcha Doin? People are very smart here too, everyone seems to have a masters degree or getting one….big change from where i’m from where college or undergrad is considered creme de la creme! The environment is challenging finally! and I am FINALLY getting my projects on the go at work! Which is a great feeling!

There are many Canadians representing here, I meet like one Canadian each day! which makes me happy cause Ich kommes aus KANADA!

Big News tomorrow: New DG for the IAEA! They were setting up press stuff today. Its gonna be a busy day!

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