Howdy!

How are you guys feeling today? Are you staying at home? I hope you guys stay safe and stay healthy, I know it's really hard to stay inside all the time, I feel you. I've been staying home for 8 days now since I came back from the U.S and I feel like I'm going crazy. I feel like my mind is about to blow up for real. Bet so many of you are wondering why I'm home, whether I'm home for good now or I'll just be staying until all of this over.

It's funny, I wrote about this post a week ago before I went to Los Angeles, and I put it on my draft as I felt like I was gonna continue it later. Everything changed 0-100 real quick that I don't feel like posting my writing from the draft anymore. It's crazy. The post that I wrote before this was just how I felt hearing about all this corona virus cases increasing drastically in every single day, then I was explaining how I loved my new job as a barista as I just got transferred to another outlet in my workplace which apparently not my job anymore. Yeah! I'm so totally bummed! Oh I'm sorry, I haven't been around much so I feel like I need to give you guys a life update. Ok, let me start over.

As you guys have known, I went to LA a couple weeks ago, it was totally spontaneous decision because one of my good friends, Sky, was about to leave America for good, so we went to LA by car as a farewell trip. From Tahoe to Los Angeles is like 8 hours drive, it wasn't a really long drive but I was EXHAUSTED. Why? Well, let me break it down for you. The day before we left, I had to do my laundry, so I did it in the evening around 8pm, then I had a couple drinks with my friend. After that, one of my supervisors called me to come to this bar, so I went (oh yeah, I really get along with all my bosses, they're super cool!). When I arrived, I really liked the vibes, there were so many familiar people so I had couple more drinks, couple more, and couple more until I got lost how many drinks I had. It was real fun until they announced the bar is closing which is like 2.30am something. We always stay for half an hour more because we knew the bartender, so we ended up leaving the bar at 3.00am. I didn't plan it at all, I was just gonna go home and pack after I did my laundry. Things get worse, because when I got home, I needed to fold my laundry and pack when I was supposed to be sleeping. Even worse, I had to go to work at 5.20am because my work starts at 6. IMAGINE! So I packed my stuff like really fast, then I got like one hour and a half sleep more or less. I went to work, I had so much energy maybe because I was excited that I was gonna go to LA (or because I was still drunk, no-one really knows). So, I showed up at my work, it was kind of slow because of all this corona virus. Then around 2pm, my friends came pick me up at work then we go to LA. So, I let Sky drive first even though I really don't trust her driving skill but whatever, at least it'll give me some time to close my eyes and rest a little bit. We were passing by Sacramento, all of a sudden my friends were screaming so loud hysterically. Sky and Heisil (my other friend) were saying OH MY GOD OH MY GOD repeatedly. My heart was beating so fast, I had no clue what was happening. I opened my eyes, I saw with my own eyes that we were so close with crashing the cars in front of us and beside us. I was so scared, damn felt like my soul just flew away. I'm not being dramatic or whatever but we really were that close for having a car accident. Thank god we didn't crash at all. So we get off from the highway and we exchanged driver, I drove for the rest of the way which was 4 more hours. I was really exhausted, but I'm glad we made it. We really had amazing time in LA (I'll give you the details on my next post).
Fast forward, we made it back to Tahoe. The corona virus cases going crazier and crazier that we heard there were 2 confirmed cases already in Truckee which is where the video took place. I had a little photoshoot in Truckee couple days before I heard that, so we were very shocked. After that, I got an announcement that my workplace gonna suspend all its operations for 6 weeks, which is crazy. I can't even live for one whole month without income, and this is one and a half month. I had to pay my rent, my phone bill, food, gas, everything! And they are just targeting for reopening on May 1st but they had no clue if they have to extend the operation suspension or we can go back to work to normal. So I was really stressed because of this whole thing, I was thinking to go to my aunt's place in New York, I talked with her and she really wanted me to come so I can be safe with her and I don't have to pay rent or food. Then again,  NY is one of the most infected area in the united states, so it's so damn risky to travel there, and NY is like a ghost town so there's no point to travel there. I wanted to leave for good to Indonesia but I still had my car that I needed to sell and silly me I didn't have the key because I lost it in the snow late night lol, it was stupid. So yeah, how am I supposed to sell a car without its keys, and no I didn't have the duplicate keys smh. My parents wanted me to come home so badly because they were really worried about this whole thing and being far away from me not helping them at all. After one whole week thinking it through, it was a really hard decision but thankfully it was the right decision. I decided to go home, so you might be wondering what I did to my car. The next day, I started shoveling all the snow in front of my house and asking bunch of my friends to help me out find it lol which we never did, but it was kinda fun. I ended up calling a locksmith and make a new car key for $250, damn I never felt so sad for spending that much money for something so stupid, oh no actually I did, yeah I had to spend $400 for a tow truck to tow my car which broke down in the middle of a highway at 2am in the morning ON MY FREAKING BIRTHDAY. Oh well, oh well. Anyways, I had the new key and I ask my friend to sell it for me so yeah, that's what happened with Gunther. Yes, it's my car's name, we named my car so what.

Leaving US was so damn hard, because I made so many REAL friends and real friends are hard to find. It wasn't as hard as leaving Switzerland to be honest but yeah I loved living in Tahoe, it was beautiful and amazing experience. Work was going really well that they were gonna make me a supervisor, I was working my ass off, doubling in every department, being a host, barista, busser, food expo, all different positions in every week and I loved it, I really did. Mostly because of the people that I work with and the job is really fun too, each day is different story. I really wish I could come back in the future because apparently my plan A doesn't work out. I planned it out for real that I was gonna marry some green card holder so I can get a green card too, too bad it didn't work out.

I think that's about it for my life updates and here I'll present you another outfit ideas. Perfect for going out, to stroll around the city, lunch date also if you wanna get a little adventurous and discover some new places in town! It's really funny because I spent my last 2 years hating on everyone who wears leather jacket, I didn't know why. I promised myself that I would never own or even buy a leather jacket for a friend, but meh everybody changed, now I own three of them. So, in this photoshoot I was wearing a simple brown knitwear which is my favorite thing to wear because you can wear it during summer and it's also a little warm that you can wear in the winter. The pants that I was wearing were not jeans, they were basically trousers that I wear for work hahahah. For the shoes, I was wearing my favorite boots which is the ribbed block heel chelsea boots, I bought them from Zalando when I was still in Switzerland. I also put on a hat because you know me, I always feel empty without hair accessories. So I will end this post by attaching all the pictures down below. Once again guys, I hope you stay safe and stay healthy wherever you are! If you ever want to talk or need a friend to talk with, dm me on insta at anytime! I will answer and respond to it. I will see you on my next post!

Much Love, xx
Dind





 P.s: Little did sky knew, Peru was gonna close its borders 2 days before her flight. So I ended up leaving United States for good before her. I miss her tho!