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This morning I took Janis to the train, got back, woke up Annie and made her lunch, and that’s about it. 20 min of work today can’t complain!

Brian is going with Curt to the city that’s why I don’t need to work any. Thought I have no idea what to do with my day off. The weather isn’t the best today; otherwise I’d just go outside and enjoy the sun for the day. Maybe it’s actually time to start studying for the driving license…

Monday evening my host parents went to a car dealer and ended up buying a new car, I call it the batmobile because it’s black and awesome. It’s a Nissan and that’s pretty much all I know about it. I wonder who’s going to drive it, since this is out third car. Right now I’m driving the van all the time but I’m not very fond of it, also it feels stupid driving a 7 persons car all alone, and I don’t mean it as I don’t have any friends (I got about a million of those), but all the gas and it’s so clumsy!

After dinner, Monday, Svenja picked me up and we went to one of hers au pair meetings. Today the, sk. Meeting, was at a mini golf course in Scotch Plains, just about 3 min away from me. We played together with two other girls, one from Kina and a new girl from Germany. The Chinese girls English was really good, I was impressed! Usually they have a really bad accent but she was way better than me and Svenja. The German girl by the other hand had the typical German accent, but she was new so I hope she’ll get over it.

After playing we were on our way to the car when a guy au pair started to talk to be and asked how the game was. We started to talk and he told me he was from France (not very had to notice from the very hard accent). Funny thing was he told me he noticed me when we were playing because I was so tall! I felt like a was two meters tall at that point ( you see over here, being tall feels like to be called a freak, since everyone, women and men, usually only reaches up to my chin).

Anyway, we talked all the three of us for a while before we decided to all go to Rock and Joe’s for a late coffee. The whole way over Svenja and Kevin, the French guy, spoke French all the time, Svenja learnt French for about 4-5 years if I remembered it right and seemed to understand most of what he was saying. I understood about 1%.

Yesterday, Tuesday, we had breakfast with a Swedish au pair, Madde, at my house. In the beginning we used to hang out a lot but then we kind of went different ways but we always stayed friends of course. Madde is going home in about 2 weeks; it’s crazy how everyone is starting to leave now. Svenja only have 20 more days and that just sucks!

Talking all about this; going home stuff, I felt a desire to go to Ikea. So yesterday after work I went over to pick up Dan, and having some discussion with his mum about his bad food habits, we went to pick up Svenja too. I think we got to ikea just before 8pm, because I had planned to get some meatballs for dinner but almost right when we got there, there was an announcement that the restaurant was closed! I got a bit upset so instead I bought some stuff down in the Swedish foodshop; “Kexchoklad”, “Kardemumma skorpor” and “mjölkchoklad” . And there’s still some left, believe it or not!

My homemade suit..bag? Last july, in our old kitchen apparently!

I had some mail discussion with my au pair organization lately. They have their head office in California so I never met the “boss” or whatever she is. The discussion mainly was about me going home and what airport I’m going from, they say JFK, I say Newark, I think she said I can go from Newark now actually. Also I complained about that the new airline rules are that you are only allowed to bring one suitcase. How brings ONE suitcase after one year over here? I got al least 3 check in bags plus hand luggage and computer bag.

I told her the organization should pay for it since they send me over here with two suitcases, it didn’t went very well, she just got annoyed by me, it was worth a try at least!

I already had to pay $ 50 for the one bag Pontus took with him home, and then I’m going to have to pay about $100 more for the two extra bags I’m going to bring back with me. Sucks!

Within a month I have to let them know what date I want to go home, I think I know when but I’m just going to wait a week or two before I let them know, and everyone back home. I still got about 2 more months so no rush! Right?

Catch you on the flip side!