Staff Profile: Rochelle

Rochelle: Promotion and Administration Assistant Manager

Home Country and one great thing about it: Australia...ability to master the best blend of food, art, wine, beer, hospitality, people, dance etc....... from around the world ,adding our own contemorary spin on things without the historical baggage.

Quirks/Oddities:

 Belief that chocolate is a breakfast food- especially on your birthday!
 Flacid ears.
 When i laugh uncontrollably my stomache gets hot and bright red.
 I love the feeling of oil paint squashed between my fingers, but i can’t stand to have dirty hands in any other way.

Star Sign: Leo

Favourite Smurf: Smurfette- you’ve gotta be a brave woman to live in a world of small, tubby, weird blue men!

Favourite Quotes:

 “light speed is too slow...we’ll have to go right to Ludicrous speed!” Dark Helmet- Space balls.

 “Squint your eyes and look closer I’m not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some and I’m beyond your peripheral vision so you might want to turn your head cause someday you’re going to get hungry and eat most of the words you just said” Ani Difranco

 “her eyes are as big as her bubbly toes” Jack Johnson

 “that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster” Othello, Shakespeare

 “I got highways for stretch marks...see where I’ve grown” Ani Difranco

 “you are here, and nowhere else” Ekrem

 “balanced diet....local and imported beer” Lani

 “If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life,…[Gatsby had] …an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.” F. Scott Fitzgerald

 “It’s Mega Maid. She’s gone from suck to blow” Colonel Sandurz- Space Balls

 When offered another drink at seperate parties both a firend (Hi Atiya!) and my mum - neither of whom need much to drink- reply “No thanks, I’m funny enough”

 “Life would be just to sad without biscuits” Gin’s roomate, Antonella

Favourite 80’s fad:  Side pony tails and lyrcra bike pants under hot pink pleated skirts.

Likes:

 Chocolate

 Beer

 Wine

 Painting

 Smiles...really big ones!

 Honest people who love to share a good time.

 Swimming in a beach with waves....real ones.

 Sun light

 Reading...falling asleep..reading some more

 Laughing

 Music: Janis Joplin, Augie March, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Ani Difranco, The Beautiufl Girls, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Ella Fitzgerald, John Butler Trio, Powderfinger, Jeff Buckley, Joanie Mitchel, Counting Crows...various jazz and blues etc.

 Books: ’The Great Gatsby’, ’The Persian Boy’, ’No Logo’, ’The God of Small Things’

 Movies: ’Dirty Dancing’, ’Tango’, ’Amelie’, ’Chocolat’, ’Bowling for Colombine’, ’So i Married an Axe Murder’, ’Lantana’, ’One Day in July’

Dislikes:

 Arrogance, ignorance, apathy, bullshit.
 Blue paint.

How her co-workers describe her in 3 words:

 Claire-1. Inspiring 2. Chilled 3. Cooks damn good pasta!oh an extra - doesn’t snore, cuddle (Carrie), or crack her knuckles (Annie) in the middle of the night

Handy travel hints:  You don’t NEED anything. Even a passport can be replaced. Everything...including your precious photos and journal... (which i am very fond of )...are meaningless compared to the actual experience that you had while travelling. So relax...your experiences exist without you even trying, teaching you things, and popping up in gorgeous memories of people and places. The stuff that we take with us is to teach us that we are human and we like stuff sometimes to make our lives easier/ harder, more/less fun, to give us the exercise of the extra weight to carry and to give us a choice between tops to wear to suit a different mood. It’s good to realise these healthy contradictions of materialism/sentimentality and letting go...and how both of them are entirely why we travel. 

Dream Vacation: Although i know nothing about sailing i would like to have a boat of some description and live on it sailing through the Mediterranean, the Pacific Islands...anywhere that looks nice.....for as long as i can. This way i can stop everywhere and see everything!

Places we have called home:  Australia- Canberra, Shoalhaven Heads, Wollongong. Italy- Venezia

Best or most bizzare vacation Ever: One of many Camping trips to the south coast of NSW Australia...involving several wonderful girls, talking, laughing, fruit salad, mint, painting with Baileys and skinny dipping.