My Wednesdays.

Yesterday I spent the evening with some of the girls in my class. We went to a local pub in Lyon and sat and talked for a few hours. Everyone smoked and drank and we had a lovely merry time. Not me though, I don't drink or smoke. I did learn, though, that most of the people here roll their own cigarettes. It's cheaper I guess. Honestly it looks like people are smoking weed all over the place. That's probably why we don't have that in the US, because it looks too much like pot. Not that I would know lol, I don't smoke pot either.

The three lovely girls I hung out were from Brazil, Mexico and Hungary. Last night was one of the reasons why I LOVE language so much. Because even though we all speak different languages, we all share a common language in which we were able to hold a constant conversation the whole two hours. We talked about class, Harry Potter, Twilight, boys, why I'm not smoking or drinking, and lots of other stuff. It wasn't until we all left that I found out that these women were all in their late 20's!

Wednesdays in France, children don't have school. I don't know why, but it's kind of cool. I would have loved to have a day off in the middle of the week! I think it has to do with the fact that they have longer school days than in the US, I don't know. So I'm the Au Paire right? My job is to take care of the children while the parents work? Well this morning I got up at 7am as usual and went over for breakfast at 8am. Turns out Gilles was taking Jonas to their nanny across the street, and taking Lucile to Violin himself. I wasn't needed until 1pm to pick Jonas up from his nanny and bring him to dance....So what did I do? I went back to bed!! Slept straight until noon and then got re-ready for the day. 

After that was Lucile's Cirque classes. Yes, circus. With the huge tent and trapize and juggling and everything. When it was time to pick her up, I walked right into the tent and sat down on the bleachers to wait because I was a few minutes early. Aparently that isn't allowed and I got ushered out in French and the door flap shut on me. So I wasn't able to take any pictures of Lucile practicing but I did manage to get these:

 

My view on the way to cirque

In the mail today I got a piece of paper stating I had a package waiting for me at the post office (eek!!) So after dance and circus, I went in search of the post office. Turns out there is a post office a block from my apartment and I had been taking the metro all the way into town to send letters. Stupid Google. I got a lovely care package from my Mommy!! In it were some clothes I had realized I needed, scissors, tweezers, flashcards so les enfants can learn English, my favorite Bath and Body Works soap, my Go Army backpack from Connor, some mail, a letter from my dad with $3 in it (Don't know why...I can't use US dollars here lol), and LOTS and LOTS of chocolate :) Just in time too! I was out of the bag of Hershey's Hugs I brought with me and almost out of the Kinder chocolate bars I had to go buy. My mommy loves me :) 

In the evening, I played "pate a modele" with les enfants (Play-Doh). There was some clay in the box too and I made this: 

This My friends is a French "bonhomme de neige" (literally translated, its "good man of snow." I made a french snowman. Can you see his beret? Sigh, I am so proud of myself. 

So that was my Wednesday. 

-Abs.