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