our holiday in Marrakesh, Morocco !

time to take off!!!! We left from Orly airport in Paris so we had a 3 hour flight to Marrakesh!

made it to the hotel, we were greeted by a very lovely team at the hotel medina club valeria in marrakesh

me, my sister and her boyfriend went on an excursion to the ouzoud waterfalls which was a 3h trip there and 3 hour trip back. It was very pretty but i'm not sure if the 6 hours trip was worth it (because you have to go down 750 steps which you then have to climb back up again !!! knackering !) but other than that it was nice. We had some lovely food, which a cat tried to steal from us!

took this lovely photo of my sister 

this is what the waterfalls looked like, very pretty !

one of the barmen took this picture of mum and I at the bar (where we went at least 10x a day to get alcohol free cocktails (it was an all inclusive hotel so we were making the most of it!!!)

the four of us took a cooking class during which we were taught how to make chicken, olive and preserved lemon tagine! we were also taught how to make babaganoush, shakshouka and an apple and cabbage salad (we didn't like the babaganoush or the apple and cabbage salad but the shakshouka was very nice!)

pierre made a friend at the souk!

my sister and I went in a hot air balloon to watch the sunrise on the Atlas mountains! The takeoff was a bit scary (mainly beacause of how loud the fans that blow the balloon up are) but once you're in the air it's not at all scary !!! we went up to 1000m !

saw my dream car at the hotel, which reminded me that I start driving lessons again next month (which is depressing)

we went on another excursion which took us to a local pharmacy where they sell loads of different teas, herbs, spices, creams,...

saw many cats

here are some other pictures, we went to koranic school which was very pretty (they have bedrooms for the students that studied there and they're tiny!!!!)

came back to the hotel and were greeted by many cats again before heading to the pool with a drink and a couple slices of freshly made pizza ! 

we took a taxi to go to the souk and the driver took us to another local pharmacy where they had a special area for diabetes which made me laugh!

wore my lovely dress I bought in Tesco!

on our second night at the hotel it was Bastille Day so the hotel made a special thing out of it by serving cocktails and nibbly bits before going to the restaurant!

me and mum at the bar as usual!

our hotel had this secret garden area which we sat in a couple times to eat olives before going to the restaurant or to have a cocktail! it was very pretty 

then it was time to head back home to grotty weather (which was kinda nice after 45°C every day for two weeks!

about face by halsey product review

the first product from about face that i discovered are the fluid eye paints, I started with only 2 shades a turquoise shade and a green shade but then a couple weeks ago ordered more and now i just found a couple shades on vinted for very cheap so my collection is growing! 

I love the way they feel and the easiness which which they apply and blend. Here are a couple looks I’ve done I haven’t tested out all the shade yet but if you’d like to see more when I do try them check out my instagram sophiesbilingualworld for more! 

I also bought the highlighter and a brow product (which i use as as mascara). The highlighter is amazing it feels kinda velvety on the fingers and stays glowing for hours

I can’t wait to try out more of about face’s products because i’ve been very impressed by all the products i’ve tried so far !! :) 

review of the milk makeup jelly blushes

i recently bought these new ish jelly blushes from the brand milk makeup. I love wearing blush so I was definitely excited to try these out.

this is what they both looked like on the back of my hand ; one was more pink and the other was more peachy which is right up my street in terms of blush shades

this is what it looked like on. I decided to try the peachy shade first and i LOVED it!!! So easy to blend, and overall a very fun product to use!! 

I can’t wait to discover more Milk Makeup products as trying these blushes definitely made me want to try more of their products 

 

life with diabetes

Hi all, I haven’t posted on here at all for the last few years and my mum told me to find a hobby so i’m trying out blogging again.

As you may not know, I was diagnosed with diabetes a year ago and life hasn’t been the same since. 

I discovered I had diabetes after a regular normal blood test when the person who took my blood, the school nurse and another nurse all frantically called me asking if i knew i had diabetes so which i responded something along the lines of well apparently I do! My blood sugar levels after that blood test were 3.7 which is Very High!!  Your normal levels should be between 1.4 and 1.6! 

I was immediately sent to hospital for 10 days and I started taking metformin and slow insulin (14 units then- im at 74 now) and they gave me a captor to put in my arm so i can check my blood sugar whenever i want or need. I quite like having a captor it’s a fun game to see who has one (especially in the summer when nobody’s wearing coats !!) and a lot more people have them than I could have guessed! 

After that came a series of test and meetings with the diabetic nurse to find out what type of Diabetes I have (type 1 or 2) and of course i ended up with type 1 which means I’ll be taking insulin my whole life which isn’t great but oh well. 

After a year of dealing with slow insulin every night and a big injection of insulin once a week i was introduced to fast insulin which I have to take before every meal (firstly just at breakfast and then every meal 20 units or more depending on my blood sugar levels) and despite all that my levels were still high so i was hospitalized for another week which really helped lower my levels but now i’m home it’s back to being high depending on what i eat! 

I always have to think about how what i’m eating will impact my blood sugar and sometimes have to make sacrifices like if everyone is eating chocolate or cakes and my blood sugar is high I’ll have to give it a skip. My mum will read this and say i’m lying because i do eat chocolate but only when my blood sugar is low which is rare. 

One thing i learnt in hospital which honestly surprised me is that coke 0 or diet coke will still make your blood sugar rise (less of course than normal coke) because your body doesn’t know the difference between real and fake sugar! 

Here’s to hoping my blood sugar is low on christmas day so I can enjoy Christmas dinner without having to worry about my sugar levels all day!! I can hope for a christmas miracle can’t I?!

Menu Plan / menu de la semaine

Menu plan:

monday lunch: avocado on toast with an egg / toast a l'avocat avec un oeuf

monday dinner: baked spinach with cheese (vegan version of a cordon bleu) / pavé aux épinards et fromage (version végétarienne d'un cordon bleu)

tuesday lunch: chicken with pepper flavoured cream sauce / poulet sauce poivre

tuesday dinner: ramen 

wednesday lunch: pasta carbonara / pates carbonara

wednesday dinner: veggie sticks (spinach and cheese) / nuggets vegetariens

thursday lunch: leftovers (if any) otherwise thai curry / restes (s'il y en a) sinon curry thai

thursday dinner: medeteranean pork chop / porc à la méditerranéenne 

friday lunch: pasta salad with bacon lardon / salade de pâtes au pesto et lardons

friday dinner: baked potatoes / pommes de terres au four

saturday lunch: falafels

satursday dinner: leftovers / restes

sunday lunch: currt

sunday dinner: 

Life update + menu plan - Quelques nouvelles + menu de la semaine

    As it's been over two years since my last post I thought I'd update you all on what's been going on in those last year. So my last two posts were about what's been going on as I just started my second year of College at Hastings College in England and I'd just moved into my first flat in Hastings with a roommate. I did finish my second year of College but not everything went to plan as Covid was still full strength back then. I went back home to France for my 3 week Christmas break but when I was due to go back to England they shut the border and a few weeks later I had to give the keys back for the appartment I was renting (long story in itself !!). I ended up completting my second year through online lessons which wasn't the best but I'm glad that could be done! After that I took a gap year during which I travelled quite a lot and got back to my passion for reading (I've read over a 100 book so far this year !). That takes us to September 2022 - a LOT has happened already. I spent a lot of the month of September at my friend's flat in Lille and then at the end of the month I moved to Bexhill in England to complete my top-up degree year at Hastings College but after only a couple days I realised I wanted to come back to France. My new plan was to move to Lille and get a job there ! Well I now live in Lille, and I'm currently looking for a job :) That's everything that has happened in the last 2 years. I lost my passion and interest for blogging as I felt I had nothing to talk about on here but I want to come back to it. So here's my menu plan for the week! 

    Puisque ça fait plus de 2 ans depuis mon dernier post je me suis dis que je ferai mieux de raconter ce qu'il s'est passé durant ces deux années. Mes deux derniers posts étaient au sujet de ce qu'il se passait dans ma vie alors que je venais juste de commencer ma deuxième année à l'université à Hastings en Angleterre et je venais d'emménager dans mon première appartement en collocation. J'ai bel et bien terminé ma deuxième année a l'université même si tout ne s'est pas passé comme prévu à cause du Covid. Je suis rentrée en France pendant mes vacances de Noel mais quand j'étais supposée rentrer en Angleterre la frontière avec l'Angleterre a fermé et quelques semaines plus tard j'ai du rendre les clés de mon appartement (c'est une longue histoire aussi !). Je me suis retrouvée à finir ma deuxième année d'université via zoom ce qui n'était pas l'idéal mais au moins ça a pu être mis en place! Après ça j'ai pris une année sabbatique durant laquelle j'ai beaucoup voyagé et j'ai retrouvé ma passion pour la lecture (j'ai lu plus de 100 livres déjà cette année!). Ceci nous amène à septembre 2022 - il s'est déjà passé beaucoup de choses. J'ai passé beaucoup du mois de Septembre chez un ami a Lille et à la fin du mois j'ai déménagé a Bexhill en Angleterre pour compléter ma 3e année à l'université mais après seulement quelques jours je voulais rentrer en France. Mon nouveau plan était de déménager à Lille et de trouver du travail ici. Et bien j'habite bel et bien à Lille et je suis à la recherche de traval :) Voila tout ce qui s'est passé durant les deux dernières années. J'avais perdu ma passion pour écrire sur mon blog puisque j'avais l'impression de n'avoir rien a raconter mais j'ai envie de recommencer alors voici mon menu pour la semaine! 

Menu plan:

monday lunch: leek and mushroom risotto / risotto aux champignons et poireau

monday dinner: thai green curry / curry thai

tuesday lunch: avocado on toast with an egg / toast a l'avocat avec un oeuf

tuesday dinner; ramen 

wednesday lunch: caesar salad / salade césare

wednesday dinner: coconut chicken / poulet à la noix de coco

thursday lunch: curry flavoured courgettes with rice (and chicken?) / courgettes au curry avec du riz (et peut-être du poulet)

thursday dinner: curry

friday lunch: pasta carbonara / pâtes carbo

friday dinner: fish and chips 

saturday lunch (maybe): pasta salad with bacon lardon / salade de pâtes au pesto et lardons

satursday dinner: baked spinach with cheese (vegan version of a cordon bleu) / pavé aux épinards et fromage (version végétarienne d'un cordon bleu)

sunday lunch: mediteranean chicken or pork / poulet ou porc à la méditerranéenne 

sunday dinner: roast potatoes or whatever is left in the fridge before monday foodshop / pommes de terres au four ou ce qu'il reste au four avant de faire les courses lundi

What I've been up to this week #3 - Ce que j'ai fait cette semaine #3

Monday / Lundi : 

I had lessons again so not much to update on, lots of research and lost of taking notes. I bought a pack of 4 chocolate cookies for £1 from Sainsburys that I enjoyed in the evening when I was watching Netflix. For dinner I had a chiken and bacon burger with an egg inside a bagel with dairy free cheese spread  - I've been eating this loads and everytime I eat it I remember why, because it's so nice.

J'avais cours alors pas grand chose a raconter, beaucoup de recherches et de prise de notes. Je me suis acheté un paquet de 4 cookies pour £1 au supermarché que j'ai mangé pendant la soirée quand je regardais un film sur Netflix. Au soir j'ai mangé un burger au poulet, bacon et oeuf dans un bagel avec du fromage a tartiner sans lait - j'en mange très souvent et franchement c'est un de mes repas préférés.

 

Tuesday / Mardi : 

I spent most of the day catching up on any notes that I'd missed at the end of Monday's lesson because my laptop died. At this point I saw that the powerpoint we were working on had 67 slides and after working on it all day I was only on slide 35! I made risotto for lunch.

J'ai passé la majeure partie de la journée a retravailler les notes que j'avais loupé lundi parce que la batterie de mon ordi n'a pas duré toute la journée. A ce moment la j'ai remarqué que le diaporama sur lequel je travaillais avait 67 pages et qu'après avoir passé la journée entière a travailler dessus je n'étais qu'a la diapo 35! J'ai fait du risotto a midi.

 

Wednesday / Mercredi : 

I had lessons again - this was a very tiring day because our afternoon teacher doesn't have a powerpoint that we can follow while he speaks so it's hard to take notes when he's speaking because he goes from one point to another but both points will have nothing to do with each other! 

J'avais cours encore - c'était une journée très fatigante parce que notre prof de l'après-midi n'a pas de diaporama que l'on peut suivre donc c'est dur de prendre des notes pendant qu'il parle parce qu'il passe du coq à l'âne!

Thursday / Jeudi : 

I went to do a foodshop but didn't pick the right time / the right day because it's the most busy it's been so far. I had to queue for 30mn to be able to check out! I also had my first class-rep meeting in the afternoon which was actually really interesting I enjoyed it! 

Je suis allée faire les courses mais je n'ai pas du choisir le bon jour / la bonne heure parce qu'il y avait du monde et j'ai du faire la queue pendant 30mn pour passer en caisse! J'ai aussi eu ma première réunion de déléguée dans l'après-midi ce qui était super interessant!

Friday / Vendredi : 

Today was another catching up on notes and homework day. I had a can of chickpeas in the cupboard and saw someone online make roasted peanuts as a snack so I thought I'd try making roasted chickpeas and it was actually really nice. I saved half the can in case it wasn't nice so I'll make more to have for lunch on monday when I'm at College! 

Une autre journée devoirs et rattrapage sur les notes que j'ai loupé. J'avais une boite de pois chiche dans le placard et après avoir vu quelqu'un faire des noix grillées j'avais envie d'essayer de faire des pois chiches grillés au four et au final c'était super bon! J'ai gardé la moitié de la boite au cas où ce n'étais pas bon donc j'en referais pour manger a midi quand je vais en cours lundi!

Saturday / Samedi : 

My roomate's quarantine ended so we went into town (which was super busy), we got a couple things we needed for the flat and then she needed to do a foodshop so I went with her! I had gamon, hash browns and peas in gravy for lunch and we got pizza delivered for dinner. I went for an option of their vegan list (mainly so I could avoid dairy) and I got a pizza that had potato, caramelised onions, peppers and garlic oil which was very nice! I also recevied a book I ordered for school which cost £45??!!

La quarantaine de ma colocataire s'est terminée donc on est allées en ville (il y avait énormément de monde), on a acheté quelques trucs dont on avait besoin pour l'appartemnt et après elle devait faire les courses alors on est allées au supermarché! A midi j'ai mangé du porc, des pommes de terres frites et des petits pois, et au soir on a fait livrer des pizza à la maison. J'ai pris une de leurs pizza du menu vegan (principalement pour éviter le fromage) et j'ai pris une pizza sur laquelle il y avait des pommes de terres, des onions caramélisés, des poivrons et c'était super bon!! J'ai aussi recu le livre que j'avais acheté pour les cours qui m'a couté £45??!!

Sunday / Dimanche : 

Chill day, I finished my homework and i just started watching a new show on Netflix called 'Julie and the Phantoms'. It turns out my sister has watched it already!

Je n'ai pas fait grand chose de ma journée, j'ai fini mes devoirs et j'ai commencé a regarder une nouvelle série sur Netflix qui s'apelle 'Julie and the Phathoms' et ma soeur m'a dis qu'elle l'avais déjà regardé!