Today I met up with an Au Pair from Chambourcy and we rode the bus to St. Germain to enjoy one of our last days before we start French classes (THREE TIMES A WEEK). We first went to the market that happens every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday in this town. It's not a particularly large one but its a market and its fun to see fresh flowers/fish/cheese sometimes. Even though the last two of those tend to be rather smelly.
And I also saw this:
this is NOT a joke, it was for sale.
Then my friend and I went for a picnic lunch at the parc next to the Chateau. I've shown pictures before as its right across from the RER station and its big and beautiful and I realized today you have a view of Paris from this park. It was a nice day, not too hot but pretty warm, which is wonderful considering in the mornings and evenings the temperature is dipping to the low 60's if not lower. Agh. I'm honestly not ready for the cold this early in the year.
If you look closely, the set of tall bulidings just over my right shoulder is La Defense, the business district in Paris and then you see a hill over my left shoulder and if you are able to open this picture larger and zoom in you will see a very tiny stick pointing out of the hill, that is the Eiffel Tower. You can see it better in person, the picture doesn't do it justice. I am pretty far from the Eiffel as this picture would show, but its not so bad (most days, at least).
And then my friend and I walked to my language school to check it out and ask how much exactly I needed to pay. I found out that I have to take my placement exam on Thursday, which I'm glad I asked because I was planning on going on Friday. I also found out just exactly how much it is and it scares me. If you read this, please pray for me and my finances. I am not a money girl or a numbers girl and with living off the little income I make and wanting to do everything and see everything, I'm having to learn to be patient, even with money. I am having to learn how to allegate my money each week so it goes to places that are honoring to God and not being wasted. I truely believe that if you are honoring with your money, that God will provide for you and I am trusting that. This language school is not cheap and that scares me. But I also know that I am going to be getting a great education out of it so I need to remember that. Being a "grown up" is not so easy I am finding out, even living in a foreign country. Try learning to manage all aspects of your finances and doing it while having to add in exchange rates and bank fees and figuring out how to "wire" it over, thank God for wonderful fathers who are so helpful and so willing to be helpful! I am not quite sure where I'd be without mine, just being honest!!!
Well, I hope everyone is enjoying their week so far! I have a bunch going on the rest of the week that I am super excited about. My church is having what they called "Equipped for Life" on Wednesday, its what they do on the opposite Wed as Connect groups, and then Thursday is my placement exam for my language school and Friday I have plans (hopefully I"m able to keep them) to meet up with a friend in Paris to teach her how to drape (on a mannequin) and I'm super excited about that. I'm a bit rusty as I haven't done it for a few years but I'm eager to relearn myself. And she offered free food in exchange for teaching her so I"m not going to lie, I'm equally as excited about that. And then Friday is "Sisterhood something" where a lady from the DFW area is coming to Paris to talk to all the ladies in the church. Life has picked up ten fold and I am going constantly but trying not to take any of it for granted!
I love you guys a million times over!!! Love, me
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