californiabylagesson

Don´t know where to start telling you about my day, or the last 24 hours more exactly! It all started about 10 pm yesterday when I got on the bus to Stockholm. I had two seats for about an hour then a very big man jumped on the bus and sat next to me, he tooked not just his own seat but almost half of mine. After a  while I got angry and told him to move over because I couldn´t get room. Luckly after another hour or so the seats behind us were free so he moved back and I got the two seats for my self again, but I didn´t get any sleep anyway :(. 6.30 am the next morning we were in the Big city. I didn´t feel very fresh but there were nothing to do so I wnet to find the bus who were going to take me to the ambassady. I found the bus but when I got on it I couldn´t buy the ticked onboard and the busdriver was not very helpful. A woman who got on at the same busstop as me told me I could get an sms-ticket and showed be how to do :)
  

When I got off the bus I knewed where to do, Ida had taken a picture when she were here so I recognized  the bulidning ( how couldn´t I, it must be the most controled buildning in Sweden :P ) When I got there I had to wait for han half an hour before I got inside and then it might have taken an half hour again before I was out of there. The asked me a cupple of questions about the children, how old they were and if it was girls or boys or a gril and a boy. I can say I knew all the answers! ;P I thought it would be mutch more tricky questions and a lot longer waiting. So when I got out of there the clock were just about 9 am and by train wasn´t departning until 4 pm. I was very tired and didn´t feel very fresh so I walked for a while and then got on some bus and went whit the bus til it got back to the same busstop :P I´m not a big fan of Stockholm so I wasn´t overexited going to diffrent places or see something special, been there done that?!

   I went to " Gamla Stan " ( the very old quarters in Stockholm ) and then went to a coffe shop to buy a coffe and sit down for a cupple of hours whit a book and kill som time, WHEN I got a phonecall, it was the Swedish Au Pair cordinator, she had some bad news she told me, the father in my hostfamily had lost his job and they were now not able to have an au pair. She had to tell me a cupple of times before I understood it was true what she was saying, I got a chock and started to cry ( I Never cries ), but this were the worst that could happend. She told me there were other familys already who were intrested having me as their au pair. One family in Pennsylvania and one in California who had 4 fourlings ( is it called fourlings ) who were 4 years old. I still couldn´t belive it, I had found the perfect family and now where were trying to find a new one for me, I don´t want anyother family!!
  After a while my battery on my phone were done and I now sat in totally chock and didn´t knew what to belive. I sat down for an hour or two trying to read my book, drink my coffe and trying to understand the situation!

I went to 7/11 where they had internet and I logged in to my mail, I might have got 10 mail justed from familys and information about my new situation. BUT in the top threre were a mail from Janis, by hostmum. She asked if I had got my international drivinglicens. There were something wrong about this, I got her mail for about 20 minutes ago and they called be for about 2 hours ago, I mailed Janis asking what´s going on and told her what they have told me. I got an answer back were she told me there must have been something wrong, Curt still had his job ( of course ) and I was still going. My heart just started to function normaly again. I looked up the closest phonestore, went there and then asked if I could borrow a phonecharger and then could call the organistaion and tell them they must have done something wrong. Then my phone was out of battery again. When I was on my way home with the train I manage to turn the phone on and at that moment I got an call, it was from the American organisation in California. She told me they had mixed me up whit another swedish girl called Anna and who also were going to NJ. She said she was very, very sorry, I told her it was okey as long as I had my "old" hostfamily to go to. Well to make a very long story short, it turned out to be a big misstake and I can´t tell you how relieved I am now when this whole nightmare is over!

I can´t tell you either how nice it is to be home again. Get a good nights sleep in a real bed before it´s time for work tomorrow again. I´m very tired, so I won´t read this trough and look for spellingsmisstakes and gramma today, Sorry.


P.S Today Ida´s being picked up by her hostfamily, I´m so happy for her :D, soon it´s my turn D.S




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