Autumn's here....

It's raining. As if we haven't had enough of that this summer. But I have to say, these past 2 weeks have been bliss with a lot of sunshine and pleasant warmth.
I'm in St Germain-en-Laye at the moment, tapping away at the French computer. It always takes a little while longer, the keys are all jumbled about. This week has been really nice, with the language course finally starting. We've got one more girl joining our group, which enhances the total of participants to three girls in my class, yay! Takes the pressure off just a tad. Doesn't mean we don't have to work hard though.
I also tried out the Paris rent-a-bike system, called Velib. Very clever, shove your creditcard in, take a bike, tour around and return. Costs 1 euro. Although, I haven't gotten back my 150 euro down-payment yet... cheeky Frenchies. All in all it's a great system, I suppose. Only Paris isn't built for cycling AT ALL. You're supposed to behave like a car really, and abide to the rules like any other vehiculean. However, I don't know if it's widely known, but the French are such little a-holes behind the wheel (pardon my German), it's not like Amsterdam where you can get away with almost anything as long as you're on a McBike, par example. You just really have to look out, and stop when the light is red or you WILL be run over!
Ah, and I have had my first celebrity-spotting! Or, to be more truthful, Matilda (another Swedish au pair) spotted and I just went along for the ride; we were standing in the line at Starbucks when people in front of us started behaving really weirdly. Turns out little miss Marc Jacobs is there to buy his coffee, standing there right next to us. I mean, if it was just me there, I hardly would have been able to tell it was him just by looking at him. Sure, he has his logo tattooed on his arm, but still... Matilda was quite smitten though, and the poor little Starbucksdude couldn't stop messing up my order. I'm POSITIVE it had nothing to do with my French or anything, it's quite impeccable at this stage!
So what else is new? Nah I guess that's it really, nothing else to report this time (or rather, I did have lots to write but I appear to have lost most of it on the way over here).
Oh well, it'll come back to me sooner or later.
Until then, just keep swimming

First day of school

There, finally I'm doing something useful. Went to my first lesson at L'étoile, school for foreigners, between 10 and 12. There were only 2 students in my class, that is me and a german girl! Gaah! Which unevitably meant us being forced to speak and participate like mad. But it went alright, I guess. Mostly repetition, verbs and such. Nothing new really. The teacher was nice, too.
The weekend was sweet, went to Amsterdam for Olivier's birthdayparty. Didn't go out much though, we stayed at Czaar Peter straat and just partied the night away. Took the Thalys (TGV) and didn't get back at Louveciennes until 00.20! So, I'm a bit worn out today.
Weather's taken a turn for the worse, rainy and cold today. However, we've had awsome weather these past couple of weeks. Reckon the weather gods felt a bit bad for messing up the summer so badly, and wanted to make up for it. I went sightseeing Friday with another au pair girl Amanda. Saw all the famous sights, and rode the big wheel, great view! Only Paris has so much to offer, I've only just begun scraping the surface as of yet...
Start "working" at 17.30 today, so I should get going soon. Might go for a quick run in the Bois de Louveciennes, if I can muster the strength...

alors, à bientot!