I have now been a Parisian for a month, it is still the most exciting thing ever. This week has thrown it's fair share of ups and downs at me.
Thursday was a stressful day; everything went tits up with my French lessons and D phoned me at 9am to inform me to go to the new school I was going to be having lessons to take a test, merde. So I went and obviously answer about 1 1/2 questions which made me feel rubbish about my French ability all over again. I am also someone who needs important things like this sorted or else I stress and worry (somewhat of a flaw) so you can imagine what last minute test and getting the last place in a class was doing to me. Anyho, it of course sorted itself out! I had my first French lessons today, whilst I wasn't the best in the class I was by no means the least either, actually helped people at times. Onwards with positivity that I'll wow you all with my French skills soon.
Whilst Thursday was stressful I still found fun things to do. Thank goodness for Bella and her willingness to go find places with me, she met me after the test and we went to the Muséum national D'histoire naturelle (the natural history museum) another freebie for 18-25 ans. The museum is in huge grounds and has like 4 different buildings, we just went to Le Grande Galeries de L'évolution; a big room of stuffed animals, I loved it!!! We then had a lovely couple of hours at the Au pair cafe we go to, such a lovely chance to catch up and unload stress. Unsurprisingly I found myself drifting behind the bar making drinks (tea and coffee not pints unfortunately) old habits die hard!
Friday was a quiet morning, I had washing etc to do, the children were a handful on Friday, A didn't want to talk to me and E was to hyper to listen, deep breath... but we got there. Such an encouraging moment when you think the English grammar you've been teaching for a week has gone unremembered then you do an end of the week test and both children ace it! I have hope for my teaching skills yet! Friday night was spent having homemade mojitos at Delaine's whilst watching the Eiffel tower sparkle in the distance. We then ventured to a bar recommended to us by D, not exactly my kinda place but we wandered (stumbled) around the corner to The Guinness Tavern where we were treated like princesses and sat listening to a brilliant live band till 5:30am. I managed to come home with a rose in my bag in place of my trusty map (luckily Bella had it!) and then proceeded to prove why my phone should be confiscated after a 'busy' night, yeah sorry about that, pretty sure you don't mind though . As you can imagine this made me fit for not a lot on Saturday, just about made it out for a couple of hours to wander down the Seine and meet the girls on Ille st Louis whilst they ate ice-cream and I photographed ducks.
Saturday night saw me venture out to the 'burbs for a birthday, Natalie's birthday to be precise, the wonderful youth worker of the church I've started attending, runner of Au Pair cafe and friend of my predecessor. It was such a lovely evening where I had some of the most encouraging chats I've had in a while, I needed that, sometimes you need someone to tell you it's all ok and you're doing fine. I met some amazing people on Saturday night, so many stories to share, many who knew the previous au pair from my family so it was easy to start conversations. Sunday was another lovely day, more exploring with Bella. We went to 59 rue Rivoli, a 6 storey buildings that artists get three month residencies in; it was insanely beautiful. It's free and we'll worth a visit. We then stumbled upon a French car boot fair thing and rummaged through vintage shops. A good day was made even better by an amazing evening service, I was so blessed to be there for that experience
I have missed home a lot this week. I've missed the people I left behind there, there's so much I want to show you all. I was also missing two of my best best girl's birthdays AND my brother's 30th, so sad. This is the one thing I hate about living away, missing the big events like this. I hope you guys all had the most amazing days!! Big love to you.
Thursday was a stressful day; everything went tits up with my French lessons and D phoned me at 9am to inform me to go to the new school I was going to be having lessons to take a test, merde. So I went and obviously answer about 1 1/2 questions which made me feel rubbish about my French ability all over again. I am also someone who needs important things like this sorted or else I stress and worry (somewhat of a flaw) so you can imagine what last minute test and getting the last place in a class was doing to me. Anyho, it of course sorted itself out! I had my first French lessons today, whilst I wasn't the best in the class I was by no means the least either, actually helped people at times. Onwards with positivity that I'll wow you all with my French skills soon.
Whilst Thursday was stressful I still found fun things to do. Thank goodness for Bella and her willingness to go find places with me, she met me after the test and we went to the Muséum national D'histoire naturelle (the natural history museum) another freebie for 18-25 ans. The museum is in huge grounds and has like 4 different buildings, we just went to Le Grande Galeries de L'évolution; a big room of stuffed animals, I loved it!!! We then had a lovely couple of hours at the Au pair cafe we go to, such a lovely chance to catch up and unload stress. Unsurprisingly I found myself drifting behind the bar making drinks (tea and coffee not pints unfortunately) old habits die hard!
Le Grande Galeries de L' évolution
Friday was a quiet morning, I had washing etc to do, the children were a handful on Friday, A didn't want to talk to me and E was to hyper to listen, deep breath... but we got there. Such an encouraging moment when you think the English grammar you've been teaching for a week has gone unremembered then you do an end of the week test and both children ace it! I have hope for my teaching skills yet! Friday night was spent having homemade mojitos at Delaine's whilst watching the Eiffel tower sparkle in the distance. We then ventured to a bar recommended to us by D, not exactly my kinda place but we wandered (stumbled) around the corner to The Guinness Tavern where we were treated like princesses and sat listening to a brilliant live band till 5:30am. I managed to come home with a rose in my bag in place of my trusty map (luckily Bella had it!) and then proceeded to prove why my phone should be confiscated after a 'busy' night, yeah sorry about that, pretty sure you don't mind though . As you can imagine this made me fit for not a lot on Saturday, just about made it out for a couple of hours to wander down the Seine and meet the girls on Ille st Louis whilst they ate ice-cream and I photographed ducks.
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| Cheers birthday girls and Tim |
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| This looks about 3amish |
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| Lil duckies |
Saturday night saw me venture out to the 'burbs for a birthday, Natalie's birthday to be precise, the wonderful youth worker of the church I've started attending, runner of Au Pair cafe and friend of my predecessor. It was such a lovely evening where I had some of the most encouraging chats I've had in a while, I needed that, sometimes you need someone to tell you it's all ok and you're doing fine. I met some amazing people on Saturday night, so many stories to share, many who knew the previous au pair from my family so it was easy to start conversations. Sunday was another lovely day, more exploring with Bella. We went to 59 rue Rivoli, a 6 storey buildings that artists get three month residencies in; it was insanely beautiful. It's free and we'll worth a visit. We then stumbled upon a French car boot fair thing and rummaged through vintage shops. A good day was made even better by an amazing evening service, I was so blessed to be there for that experience
I have missed home a lot this week. I've missed the people I left behind there, there's so much I want to show you all. I was also missing two of my best best girl's birthdays AND my brother's 30th, so sad. This is the one thing I hate about living away, missing the big events like this. I hope you guys all had the most amazing days!! Big love to you.
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