Lazy Weekend......

Hello there. It's Sunday morning and I'm just getting ready for the day. I'm heading into Paris to meet a girl from my French class. We have a difficult assignment to do and so we're going to work on it together at the lounge in Starbucks. The weather is getting a bit warmer, but still gloomy...so it's easier to do the homework inside. And who wouldn't want a latte? Yesterday I had a very lazy day. I slept in and then woke up Ashley to go for a walk with me. We just walked down to the bottom of Bougival and back up the hill. It was good just to get outside, but then we both went back to our places and I spent the rest of the day cleaning a bit and organizing, watching "Blades of Glory" and episodes of Prison Break, emailing and working on some plans for when my brother Aaron comes. He will arrive on Feb 16th, my birthday! So we might be brave (since he'll just be getting off a long flight) and get a train somewhere to have an overnight trip outside of Paris and do some wine tasting and cheese eating! He really wants to see a soccer match but we're hoping to catch one the next weekend in Paris. So I'm thinking we could go back to Tours (where I stopped with Ms. Brown), and we could wine taste in Vouvray, just 10 minutes away...there are lots of vineyards in the Loire Valley, as well as chateaus...but I think with our time frame our best bet is to drink lots of wine, then return to Paris the next day!
So we'll see what we can come up with.

Well I just got a phone call from Kirstin and she can't make it into Paris today....so now I'm on my own to figure out the homework and find something nice to do in the city today. Hmm...I think I'm still going to work on the homework in Paris and then venture out somewhere.

Things with work have been going really well lately. We're all staying positive and I'm not letting the kids' "moments" irritate me. My relationship with the kids and parents feels good right now and we're all communicating well. I actually will have to begin making plans for the end of the job...setting dates to finish, hopefully travel to a few more places, and then get my return flight home. I'm excited to start planning the next phase of my life. But more to come on that later when I know more!

And for the annoying news....I'm a victim of credit card fraud!! Someone, somehow, "used my credit card" to make a large purchase just 30 minutes after I had left the same store and made my smaller purchase. If that makes sense.....it's impossible that they could have used my credit card because I did not drop it or give it to anyone, and it is in my wallet right here, right now in my studio. BUT somehow a large purchase is now on my credit card....the woman's signature is on her receipt, but with my CC #. weird huh?!? It's been an eventful week trying to figure this out....and at this point all I can do is let the banks work it out and make sure to waive that amount on my account. Bummer. It's an annoying feeling knowing someone messed with my account and got a great free purchase on my behalf. I don't like feeling cheated and fooled.

Anyways....off to start my Sunday. Bonne journee!