weekend recap

the weekend will have to wait to be fully recapped as i am still recovering and i let my friend borrow my computer so i am currently typing on a french keyboard and its not as easy as it might seem. anyways, this weekend started thursday after work when i made my way into paris to stay the night with my friend grace. she lives by the arc de triumph and with the sun not setting until rather late we decided to go for a late night walk to the eifefl tower to get crepes for an after dinner dessert. we ended up breaking into my friend mayas apartment to say hi, she lieves by the eiffel tower, and stayed rather late. this left grace and i walking back to her place rather late. it was worth it tho. i love late night strolls through paris with unexpected and unplanned events. the only downfall was that i had to be up at 5:30am the next morning to catch my flight to Istanbul.

I have 2 more weeks here in Chambourcy before I am officially a Parisian and can take my own late night walks through Paris. I am counting down the days. And not because I am not happy but because living so far away has been rather inconvenient and an inconvenience I am looking forward to getting rid of. 2 more weeks....

I have yet another friend leaving¨Paris for good tomorrow morning. How do you deal with this type of stuff? I am so over saying good bye to people thatI kind of want to become a hermit and not make anymore friends. It sucks. I cant even describe it but it really does start to take a toll on you, or at least it has me. I am very blessed to have had these people in my life for the season they were, thats for sure.

And in some bad news, i recieved word from a few more families, including the main family I was interested in, that they have chosen to hire someone else over me. TAlk about a downer. I am struggling to choose to see the positive in all this rejection but I am winning the battles so thats good. I am staying put in Paris and not giving up in defeat. I will have to be removed from this country before I voluntarily leave. I still have options and I am still researching other options and opportunities but its getting to be such a task that I dont have the time to undertake. job searching is such a time consuming task and when you have a job and are about to move and traveling all the time and add in a language and culture difference et voila...cest mon problemme. but i am confident something wioll come along so i am holding firmly to the hope that i do have.

on a positive note Clemence has been well behaved today, unlike her brother, and has been warming my heart by speaking to me in english. she even used a new word i was unaware she even knew. she is learning to jump rope these days and she is making a whole lot of progress and she was telling me to LOOK and OPEN MY EYES and COME HERE. shes a ham.

well, i am off to do other things, like rest my fingers from being so confused from typing on such a foreign key board. hope everyone had a great weekend. love and miss you all a whole bunch right now. love, moi