Nathalie Beaulieu

January 21, 2008

Next's Nathalie Beaulieu I am feeling much better. I was just having a really shitty day yesterday 'cause I was home alone with nada to do. And that's when you start thinking about home, and your relationships, your family... I've realized it's really not a good idea to stay at home and do just that.

But then Brandon's friend Maggie came over and she showed us the subway map. It has all the tourist attractions; including all these amazing markets (including a huge herbal medicine market), museums, traditional Korean homes you can visit, and the Imperial Palace.

I am now so excited to get on the subway and explore... If Maggie can take the subway alone, I can definitely do it as well. She's been here less time than I have. And the subway looks super easy. I even know which stops to get off at, which exits to take, and where to walk to my destination.

Tomorrow is Sunday, and I have to decide what I'm going to do! I'm thinking flea market or aquarium. Shopping tomorrow, hopefully.

Today I am finally going out!!! I am so excited. We get drinks for free, and my roomates know where to go, so I am trusting them. I really need to go out to feel better, I suppose. And I can sleep in, so I can stay out as late as I want. I loveee sleeping in. Everyone loves that. Especially meee.

Today I had a job that consisted of Gangster Gina clothing with Chippendale's collars and silver baseball hats. It was horrible, but the creative director that was on set has worked for nine years in Milan, and he even met Kate Moss when she was nineteen. He said I was so good, and I should really go to Milan. Not now, I want to go home first!

There was an incredibly strong wind machine which blew the living daylights out of me. However, it was a really fun shoot and it was full day catalogue (again... yet, no complaints. Cha-ching, helped, mommy). There was a glittery purple backround and they made me kneel down on naked knees and I fucking almost cried. I hate how they don't compromise the poses that they have in mind when I sayyyy 'no, it hurts!' Whatever, they let me get up after like five minutes.

I really can't explain how disgusting the stuff was. The clothes were fine, but then they had to add really cheap jewellery (and a lot of it... gangstaaa), clubbing shoes, reallyyy not my style. I looked like a Bratz doll. Speaking of doll, they even bought a life sized doll and dressed her up in the same shit as me! It was so, so freaky. And she posed the way I did and stuff. So weird... oh, Koreans.

And there was a camera guy the whole time 'cause they're gonna put the whole shoot on the site for the brand. They were all "pretend you're dancing in a club! Flirt with the camera man! Please say sexy casual young, cocarosi with the doll in your hand!" I was so annoyed. I hate being filmed. Being filmed is a whole different feeling. I really get embarassed. So, basically I am better than Kate Moss and I should really travel to far away places and keep my hair that colour. Gahhhhh.

Now I am home, watching Friends and Project Runway on YouTube, eating a frozen mango on a stick (literally a slice of mango... on... a stick). And I had gummy worms yesterday; everyone knows how much I love candy. Candy and bread. I miss Wonder Bread :(

I am going to have a little cat nap now, and then at around eleven or twelve we're going out. Wish me luck on the subway tomorrow!

xxxx loveee

Nathalie Beaulieu is a Next model, currently in Seoul.