Från citychick till söderböna: How about some cheese?

Monday 22nd - Wednesday 24th.

Of course I got a guilty conscience from the burger frenzy I had at B'n'B. People who know me know that I'm not a runner. It bores me to death. But I told myself I would end up as the American Biggest Looser contestants if I didn't get my myself to some kind of exercise after eating crazy delicious stuff like that. So.. said and done.. I put on my little running shoes and went out on Coral way. Managed to run around 3,6km. As I said I'm not a runner, people who don't know me might think that isn't an effort.. but believe me.. this heat combined with the shape I'm in.. also walked the same distance back so 7,2 km isn't that bad. I was so proud. Go Emelie!!

The day after I was a bit sore from the exercise, but still super happy by the fact that I actually managed to gather some character and do it.. My legs wasn't up for another run but I thought I could always manage a nice walk. Took my camera and walked on Miracle Mile towards the golf course. It was a wonderful evening and a beautiful environment and turned out to be 3 km back and forth to course and 3,6 km around the course. Perfect, mental note for next run.

At work I got the opportunity to listen in when one of the teams presented their plan and recommendation for an upcoming campaign to the client. A good job! Since the TV market is so different here from compared to the Swedish market (as I told you earlier) - so is the collaboration focus. For this specific campaign they had worked out quite a lot of collaboration ideas and sponsorships with different vendors and channels. In Sweden those ideas would probably be collaborations with the big digital vendors and media partners instead.

A thing that crossed my mind is that sometimes having a lot of suggestions actually can make the client indecisive. I know I'm like that myself. If I get too much to choose between it ends up with me having a really hard time to make a decision. So I think if you present like that, you also need to have set your mind to what you as a consultant believe most in, what are your favorites - and sell those ideas a little bit more than the others, know by heart why these ideas would rock this campaign and make sure you have prepared answers to possible upcoming questions as good as you can. Then you give the client a large smorgasbord with opportunities but also ease the decision making for them.

This is one of the views from the golf course at sunset. It's Magical

Thursday 25th @places (don't remember their naaaames)

Me and some of the girls from work decided to get Mexican food for lunch. We went to this place, not entirely sure but think it was Mi Rinconcito Mexicano, OH MY GOD. I died and went to food heaven. You start off with home made ships and Salsa. After that we ordered an amazing guacamole and tacos for starters and as you can see on the picture we also had a dish with cheese and choritzo ;) and another one called Pollo en Mole which is chicken in a Mole sauce. That sauce.. well hello.. we could be best friends.

In the evening Luisa took me to a place that had a reggae band playing so I could dance away the calories from lunch. A perfect ending on a super day.

Friday 26th @the office

Started the day with this little Darling and some scrambled eggs. It's called pan de bono, which basically is a cheese bread. It was, as you can imagine, a bit heavy but I absolutely loved it and didn't really get hungry for lunch. But went down to the café and bought a salad. Yeeees they have some healthy alternatives too. It was a fine sunny day so I enjoyed my food outside in the sun reading a book.

It was a bit windy though. Didn't rally think of that until when I had finished my meal. So I sat there, totally focused on my book, and the wind got hold of what was left of my salad.. and spread it everywhere. Got vinaigrette all over my arm, luckily I had taken my sweather off. Thank you dear weather god - you made me smell like vinegar and fish.

Got a bit frustrated and ran up to the bathroom to wash it off. Guess what was waiting for me on my desk when I got back? A package from my mother with Swedish candy. I got soooo happy and totally forgot everything about fishy smells and vinaigrette arms.

Because there's something I truly miss from Sweden - our candy. I absolutely LOVE salty licorice and there's no such thing here. The shelves are filled with chocolate bars and M&M's. I let some of the people here try our Swedish salty licorice and as many others (yes I try to make all my foreign friends taste this) the did not really enjoy it. Coca-Cola flavored gel candy was apparently much more likable.