Joey Graceffa In Real Life Book Review

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I have many YouTubers books but have not read any of them, I recently met Joey at a signing so got his book, one of his videos recently was him saying about heartbreak in his life at the moment and it was about his mum being an alcoholic. He thought she was stable and everything was good but in fact it wasn't and it all began again he said he had shared his experience with his mum in past videos and his book, the video touched my heart and I was a casual viewer of Joey and have been for years and was very intrigued and upset for him so I began to read his book...

This book is one of the best books I've read in a long time, I've never really been interested in somebody's life so the genre autobiography never really caught my eye but this book was phenomenal.

Joey talks about his mother and the beginning and his experience with living with a alcoholic and how it is a permanent disease and how his mother will never be without the disease she will always have ups and downs. 

The second big part was about him finding his sexuality and coming to terms that he is gay and finally admitted it to himself in his early 20's and started to experiment with dating and it was just an amazing feeling to read as a viewer, you can tell whether someone is feminine and you automatically think he may be gay, but the one thing I hate about having this automatic feeling which everybody does is that some people think its okay to ask are you gay? This is not cool, just because someone is feminine does not mean they are gay and I hate how I have that automatic response although Joey was and I was suspicious but I kept it to myself. I enjoyed his content so much and still do but for somebody over years of hiding finally telling the world makes me a happy person as that suspicion was correct and he was hiding for some reason and I felt so happy for him to be able to confront what he was hiding from and tell people who really care about him.

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The book itself I'd say out of a rating 12/10!! Even if you don't know who Joey Graceffa is pick up the book it is a great read and get to learn how lucky your life really is and how unlucky some other peoples are, even when I've been at my worst moments it's nothing compared to what he had been through. 

People and books like this put a perspective on how I see things and how I should see things, I have my own mind and I like the thought of that, Joey is a huge inspiration to me after reading about his life story and his book is a memoir of his life so far which isn't much as he's only 24 but the experience he has had within them years is just upsetting and crazy, I love this guy to pieces and I'm so glad he is finally happy and content with himself.






I really enjoyed writing this blog post and I didn't plan on writing one but i randomly found myself writing my thoughts on this book on a blog post, I had been thinking about it days after reading it and i am still currently it was so strange as I was a casual viewer I just watched videos every so often I didn't know about his problems which he previously shared, it was lovely to just to know a little bit more about him!

Hope to see you next time I write a blog post :) 

Danielle x

My First Holiday Without Parents - Italy Milan

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In May I travelled to Milan, Italy with my cousin, this was our first holiday away without our parents and it was amazing!

We flew through the airports so easily going Magaluf the week before defiantly topped our brains up with what we had to do when we travelled to Milan, it was so smooth the whole journey everything went to plan, our transfer car waiting for us which was a rip off, was actually very nice we had a Mercedes which we kind of felt like royalty as going away with family we go in the cheapest car/bus that moves as there’s so many of us.

Milan was a great place to visit for my first holiday, it was quite a sophisticated city apart from a few pervy men. Our hotel was good we paid a lot of money for it and it was worrying when we got to check in, as I wasn't 18 they wouldn't allow me access to stay in the hotel only if my parents could print of a form sign it and then scan it back into a computer and email it to them this was a lot of stress onto my dad, but we finally got let in and enjoyed the view of the main shopping street we only had 4 days there which doesn't sound much but we tried to do as much as we could.

I like exploring and looking at museums and old historic buildings, I find it quite interesting where my cousin was looking more for an activity week haha, where Milan wasn't the place maybe Magaluf but not Milan, the first day she was convinced at looking at waterparks, theme parks you name it and we didn't have that much money in all honesty so I wasn't that bothered I would rather enjoy the city for itself, everything she wanted to do wasn't open as it wasn't season, we did try and find things to do but there was nothing major we actually did, we really wanted to go on a Segway tour, like it would of been so funny but guess what... I HAD TO BE 18 which is such a bore considering my cousin was 19 I thought she could of given consent but no. 

The best thing about the city itself was the food like Italian food is literally my weakness I tried to go along the traditional side of it and everyday I wanted to try a traditional dish so the first night we had a take away pizza as why the hell not!

Then we went to a very expensive restaurant which we didn’t know at the time, it actually lured is in with the price the lasagna was under 10€ which was great then we had two huge cokes which were 20€ each which we did not know, then we were requesting other things, the bill in total came up to 72€ for 2 people, to say our jaws dropped was an understatement, haha they came out with a tiny little shot dessert and I think they felt sorry for us but just oh my god, to be honest I don't regret it now it was the best meal out of the whole holiday and I’m forever fantasizing to eat it again. The following day we had pasta Bolognese and the day after I don't think we ate anything apart from a burger king when we flew back to the UK. 

On the Saturday night we ventured into Milan’s town and tried to go into a nightclub we was looking at going to, as I was only 17 we didn’t know what the rules would be like in Milan but it was very easy, we had our makeup done and looked fabulous and it was a great night.

It was very claustrophobic compared to Magaluf as that was the main nightclub you could hardly move, so we found a small area to dance in and danced the night away, the only problem was with after that, it was 2/3am in the morning it was so busy we couldn't get hold of any taxi company and was stranded, the tube stopped running and we started to get abit worried but after compromising we had to do what we had to do haha,3 so we just jumped in a random taxi and pretended to be the person they thought they were picking up and just changed the destination to our hotel, it was quite a funny experience but that was my only down side to partying in Milan.

The main reason the whole idea of Italy came about was because of a YouTube convention called ITAtube which started out last year, all of my favourite youtubers went there and I was super excited to meet them and travel to a different country for them, but unfortunately they didn’t come which overall I didn’t mind, as instead of making the holiday all about them we made it about our time in Italy and cherished it more, we went to the event on Sunday and I met an internet friend called Camilla and she was lovely, it still blows my mind how you can become friends with people over the internet and actually pursue it to real life, we chilled for abit, before that we were both queuing to meet some low key YouTuber who I absolutely adore, the line got cut off as we were at the front on the que but we were at the front of the barricade and the came down to say bye and we got pictures and hugs it was so cool the fact I was English I may have gotten some attention ahaha they was like huh you sound English and I was like yeah I am I flew over here!

Overall I so want to visit Italy again and hopefully Milan in the future but would like to explore Italy itself bit more, it was a lovely holiday and was very relaxing compared to Magaluf, its pricey but a lovely place to just chill and shop for a couple of days. I would go back there and I would recommend visiting.

Hope you enjoyed my experience in Milan :) 

p.s. I've been telling myself for the past couple of months to not upload any blog post's till I have done my college assignments which I still have not finished, I keep staring at them and wasting my days doing nothing, so today I gave in to do this! 

Danielle x