In 2002, I got a job in a 4 star hotel in Amsterdam.

Speaking no Dutch and having no experience serving breakfast, I did my best to make it up.

Everything was a challenge:
from the awful aubergine uniform to the obligation of using make-up at 6.30h in the morning.

One day the manager, a blond, made-up, beautiful, young woman who never really showed her appreciation for my efforts, all of a sudden appeared in the middle of rush hour and said to me:

“You are too serious, you must smile more!”

I replied “But I don’t see the other girls smiling while they are serving the tables”.

Then she said “But it is different: A DARK GIRL HAS TO SMILE MORE!”.

Multimedia project, 2005-2008