Colorado Girl In France

[motsdelamotte]

Reblog if you are an active au pair blog!

I will follow ALL active au pair blogs! I want to hear about everyone’s experiences!

Tous les blogs actives des au pairs, rebloguez cette publication et je vous abbonerai!

:D

[merehibbard]

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[aupairinfrance]

Today at lunch Host Child #3 (8 Years Old) wanted me to go with him to the basement to look for some shorts, his reason that he did not want to go alone is that there are mice down there. I go down there every day to do the laundry, there are not mice down there, or at least I have never seen any. When I told him I had other things to do and he could do it himself, he started crying and said that he was not going to go back to school after lunch. Magically when I was done with my other things and it was time to go, he had found some shorts...

[aupairinfrance]

[aupairinfrance]

[aupairinfrance]

Hiked up a mountain today with my host family. There were cows at the top.

[theleaphome]

Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they’ve known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? Why climb this Mount Everest of formalities that makes you feel like a beggar? Why enter this jungle of foreignness where everything is new, strange and difficult? The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.

- Life of Pi (via theleaphome)

[aupairinfrance]

The view from my window

[aupairinfrance]

Greenland and a sunrise somewhere between Greenland and Iceland

[theroadtowandering]

Packing

How am I supposed to fit my entire life into two suitcases and a carry on?!

[durianquotes]

Move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. Walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food. Open your mind, get off the couch, move.

Anthony Bourdain (via yeswecancan)

[gh0st-ly]

Les cascades du Flumen en août, dans le Parc Naturel du Haut-Jura by Ghost-in-the-Shell on Flickr.

[libutron]

Snow | ©Frederic Labaune  (Jura, France)

[petitemonde]

Les Rousses, Franche-Comte, France

[theaupairhandbook]

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

St. Augustine (via theaupairhandbook)

[aupairinfrance]

[aupairinfrance]

Getting my Visa

Yesterday I flew from DIA out to Los Angeles so I could have my Visa appointment today. I have friends who live in the LA area which I am very glad of because I would not want to have to get a hotel room.

I had figured out that I could either take a cab to the French consulate or take the bus. Since the total fare for the whole trip on the bus was less than $6 I figured that was the best idea, and it was. The LA bus system is very good and got me there and back for less than a quarter of what a cab ride one way would have cost. I did get there about an hour early, but I just walked around for a while.

My family in France had sent me the stamped contract in the mail but it has not arrived yet, so I did not have it to take to the consulate today. Because of that I could not get my application turned in today, but they are letting me send them everything once the original has arrived.

I also had a problem with having exact dates of the class I am going to be taking in France. This is because I will be taking the classes online because my host family does not live anywhere near a school for me to take classes.

I don't fly back to Colorado until Saturday, so I will be able to relax and enjoy my time here. Since I am staying maybe 10 meters from the beach I don't think that will be a problem.