Yet again it's Tuesday and I'm still exhausted from the weekend, this is becoming a regular occurance.
Let's start at Thursday; I was entrusted with the church's au pair café, woah. Actually it was pretty easy, I just needed to set the place up and keep everyone chatting. Very successful.
Friday started early, I had to get to Gare du Nord and when you're on the other side of Paris it's a bit of a trek on the metro. Anyways I made it in time to meet mother off her Eurostar, she wins the prize for first visitor whilst I'm here. She was only here for one night but because she came early we had plenty of time. She got to see chez moi, meet the whole family here as well as even doing a kiddie shift with me. We went to the Christmas Market (in the rain) and le Marais. I showed her all my new favourite places and we even discovered a crêperie together which I will definitely be returning too! It was super strange showing mum around Paris as a resident not a tourist. I particularly enjoyed correcting her french as mine isn't half bad haha!
Sandwiched in between two long days with mum was another reunion, this time it was one of the boys from university. He too is living in France now and he was passing through my city, I was only too happy to oblige to go for a few pints! It was so nice to have someone to chats Aberystwyth with but also to moan about how we don't fit in with French fashion and how we are acclimatising to red wine. I miss having male friends around, there's just no drama with them but more then that I miss aber life; it's a pretty unique way of life I'm not sure anywhere will come close, it's always to talk with people who understand.
Then Saturday night was dinner and drinks with Jodie and later Helen, it was a pretty chilled affair in the end, not that I'm complaining, I had to be up on Sunday to take E to rollerblading. Yup 9am on a Sunday I had to work, I'm really hoping this doesn't become a regular thing, I did not enjoy it. The rest of Sunday was nice though, an Ikea trip with Gemma and a few others was perfect use of a Sunday. I only bought a few bits but they are useful bits and then obviously I had a hot dog (Ikea France doesn't sell chips...). Then it was a good few hours spent in church followed by wine and a bit of a debrief but mainly quite thought provoking conversation. I was struggling at this point and my addition to the conversation was mainly made up by sarcastic comments...
And then it was Monday again and as per what seems to be my norm now I have been going to class, sleeping and doing my shifts. I am still exhausted and the weekend is creeping up again. I'm not complaining though, I wouldn't want the boring quiet life!
Then Saturday night was dinner and drinks with Jodie and later Helen, it was a pretty chilled affair in the end, not that I'm complaining, I had to be up on Sunday to take E to rollerblading. Yup 9am on a Sunday I had to work, I'm really hoping this doesn't become a regular thing, I did not enjoy it. The rest of Sunday was nice though, an Ikea trip with Gemma and a few others was perfect use of a Sunday. I only bought a few bits but they are useful bits and then obviously I had a hot dog (Ikea France doesn't sell chips...). Then it was a good few hours spent in church followed by wine and a bit of a debrief but mainly quite thought provoking conversation. I was struggling at this point and my addition to the conversation was mainly made up by sarcastic comments...
And then it was Monday again and as per what seems to be my norm now I have been going to class, sleeping and doing my shifts. I am still exhausted and the weekend is creeping up again. I'm not complaining though, I wouldn't want the boring quiet life!
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