Finally, it's all settled. My host family is going to pick me up from the airport right when I arrive, and after a few days settling there, The parents will drop me and the kids off at thier grandparents house, while the parents go to the wedding. It must be a cultural thing, that they were going to leave thier kids alone with someone they don't even know. I don't think I could ever do it! However, I know that I am awesome, so maybe they sensed that awesomeness through out emails. Maybe?
Miami is really nice. I'm enjoying every moment of hanging out with my family. It seems like we haven't been together in a very long time! The weather is SO HOT that I almost can't take laying by the pool. I've read 3 huge novels already, and am struggling with starting the next. You know how wonderful it is to be in the middle of a great book? But when you are done, finding another book that you will love just as much is so hard. I always feel empty after a good book finishs.
Anyway, it's time to scrapbook a little before seeing Iron Man with the Baker Men... and me.
Quote from yesterday:
"It's cool because we [the baker children] all have our own thing... Kayla is the athletic one, Amy is the smart one. No, Chris is the smart one. Amy is the... oldest one."
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Bordeaux? No?
This Au Pair thing just keeps getting messier! After the squabble over the visas, the starting dates, and the french courses, I thought it was done. With just 3 weeks to go, you would assume that everything is smoothed out and ready to go.
Nope!
I had been communicating with the agency in France, and they said that June 1st would be the start date. Good, that's what we settled on. However, apparently they didnt' tell that to the family, who emailed me informing me that we will, in fact, be at a wedding in Bordeaux the 31st of May through the 6th of June. That's why they wanted me to start earlier.
Since I'm flying in the 28th, I said that it was fine that I start right away, even though I wanted a few extra days in Paris to get used to the language and time change. Also, to just BE in Paris.
I haven't heard back from either the family or the agency regarding this. I really just want to know if I get to go to Bordeaux for a week or not. To be thrown into a huge social situation like a wedding after only a few days there, a few days of french under my belt... well, it'll be an adventure!
Nope!
I had been communicating with the agency in France, and they said that June 1st would be the start date. Good, that's what we settled on. However, apparently they didnt' tell that to the family, who emailed me informing me that we will, in fact, be at a wedding in Bordeaux the 31st of May through the 6th of June. That's why they wanted me to start earlier.
Since I'm flying in the 28th, I said that it was fine that I start right away, even though I wanted a few extra days in Paris to get used to the language and time change. Also, to just BE in Paris.
I haven't heard back from either the family or the agency regarding this. I really just want to know if I get to go to Bordeaux for a week or not. To be thrown into a huge social situation like a wedding after only a few days there, a few days of french under my belt... well, it'll be an adventure!
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Spring Cleaning
How did I accumulate so much stuff?! Living just 6 months in this tiny apartment, I have amassed an impressive amount of useless things. And now, with my dad driving up from Florida to move me down to the parents house, it is quickly catching up with me.
It's not like I can just throw all of it away, either. What if I NEED that bicycle pump, that 8th three ring binder, or the $2 sparkle martini lotion? True, I don't own a bicycle, am done with school, and have way too much lotion to begin with, but you never know. And so I become a pack rat.
This is no good for someone who will be traveling for the next few years of her life. I have got to learn to live on the edge, embarking on adventures sans the comfort of $2 sparkle martini lotion.
On another note, my flight to Cuzco is booked! Looks like I'll have 7 hours in Lima on my return flight, so I'll go out, see a few sights, have lunch by the ocean, and then go back to the airport. The TEFL program has a house in Cuzco, with a Peruvian chef, house mother, and a few young people that live there. I'll be living there with other people in my program as well. Should be exciting.
Also exciting is the gorgeous sunshine flooding my room right now! I'm going for a run. It's a terrible day to waste thinking about the things that must be done. That's what tomorrow is for;-)
It's not like I can just throw all of it away, either. What if I NEED that bicycle pump, that 8th three ring binder, or the $2 sparkle martini lotion? True, I don't own a bicycle, am done with school, and have way too much lotion to begin with, but you never know. And so I become a pack rat.
This is no good for someone who will be traveling for the next few years of her life. I have got to learn to live on the edge, embarking on adventures sans the comfort of $2 sparkle martini lotion.
On another note, my flight to Cuzco is booked! Looks like I'll have 7 hours in Lima on my return flight, so I'll go out, see a few sights, have lunch by the ocean, and then go back to the airport. The TEFL program has a house in Cuzco, with a Peruvian chef, house mother, and a few young people that live there. I'll be living there with other people in my program as well. Should be exciting.
Also exciting is the gorgeous sunshine flooding my room right now! I'm going for a run. It's a terrible day to waste thinking about the things that must be done. That's what tomorrow is for;-)
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