It is really weird for me to write this diary from so far away!!! I am right now in Camden London UK in the back of the tour bus, I have Ben right by my side fixing some stuff for the laptop sequences while Kanu is cleaning the guitars because the guys sweat like little pigglets yesterday in Manchester!lol (you have to know that when there is sweat on the guitars and especially on the strings it damages them...don't worry I had to ask the question myself). Then you have Sef, Jeff, Miriam and Izabelle (the reporter) that are making some videos, Marjo is setting everything up for the media and pretty much setting our whole life schedule, Alex and Steph are at a Starbuck Coffee working the on internet business, Maria is helping out with all the little details so important to survive in a tour bus and finally there is Charles and I that will soon leave to do some promo with our amazing friends from the UK that we waited for so long to hug and love face to face... Oh... Bob our manager just arrived!

I have to tell you that this tour has been up to now just incredible... I mean the whole travelling went perfectly, then I saw that tour bus so cool with old fake green leather seats and fake wood all over and so small for the big YFE family...lol You know how we are... we start as a 6 piece band and we end up travelling 15!lol I knew right away it would be very tight, close, warm and stinky love!lol Apparently when we arrived at the airport, there was a tornado...lololl Why am I NOT surprised?lol
And then sleeping, eating, peeing in the tour bus is just so special, it's like camping in a clothes dryer!lol Ok... I have to tell you my little funny stories... before someone else does and say it all wrong making me look like a goof!lol

Ok... first I was so happy I got one of those little travelling mixer that are so incredible to do shakes and soups and all kinds of yummy stuff... Well the very first night I wanted to impress everyone by making my incredible carrot soup recipe, so I microwaved the broth with the veggies and put the whole thing in the mixer... next thing you know... POW! the whole thing litterally exploded and painted the whole bus with carrot soup and burned my face!lol... ok... it took me a few minutes before I could laugh at myself...I was in pain for goodness sake! Thank God I had my little angel Miriam helping out to clean the whole mess I made... And if you are wondering : YES the soup was good! There was no way I wouldn't eat the soup that burnt my face...I had to win over the soup and keep my pride!

Second story...about food again...gosh...I'm really a girl...or just a little pigglet like my band mates...lol So the next day I decide that my reputation as a good cook and as the good girl taking care of her band mates had to be proven after the tchernobill experience. So I cooked some delicous meatballs in the tour bus microwave, simple and delicious... well... Maybe I should have known that this microwave was not made for heating more than 2 minutes at the time...I made the whole electric system go down!lol The driver was a LITTLE mad at me... but I escaped from him for the rest of the day and he didn't mention anything after... OUPS! sorry...

Now I don't feel like cooking too much...I guess I'll concentrate on singing and being there with the people It's just so amazing... someone asked me what was the best thing that happened to me so far... I would easily say EVERYTHING but if I have to chose something I would say that the freedom I live is the best thing... I feel free on stage doing what I've been designed to do, free when I talk to the people before and after the shows, my friends, strangers, my YFE family and free to hug, love, share, give... Free when I'm on the bus looking at the amazing brothers and sisters I have on the crew, so crowded, so intimate, so loving, so intense, so true and beautiful... Free when I'm in my bunk bed thinking of the blessings I have to live this life, such a weird, intense, unpredictable and awesome life... Free to feel the love and the pain... Gosh I worked so hard to accept that freedom... And now I am starting to taste it...Finally..."Beautifully falling apart"... Who said that falling apart was wrong if you can be rebuilt and then become what you really are supposed to be?
Thank you for being behind us during this new season... We feel your love and support and we DO NEED it!

I love you...
So much...
Miss Isabel