Au pair i Paris

soon christmas...

Hanging out wit my kitty and my new christmas toy that I

got yesterday waiting for my last pick up at La creche for

this year. Tomorrow I'm leaving Paris for 10 days for some

well deserved vacation with my family and friends. 

But I'm not in Sweden yet, tonight I'm spending my night

in Paris with Cirque du Soleil!

Ice skating.

Need to keep my mind away from the fact that it's still four days left before

I'm home in Sweden so yesterday me, Allison and Kelly went for ice skating

at Hotel de Ville. Was the first time for Kelly and we had a lot of fun skating

around in the rink listening to club music and freezing to death because of

the rain.

In the two hour queue.


The ice skating queen!

After a long waiting we we're finally out on the ice. It was absolutely

worth it! 

Me and my skating girls.

sweden at IKEA.

IKEA with my Swedish girls today. Some food and some christmas

shopping later are we all set to go back to our french life again.

Maybe not for so long this time since we're all leaving soon to

celebrate christmas with our real families at home. 

I love my job and everything but I must admit that I will be more

than happy to have ten days off with my family and friends in Sweden.

8 days. 

IKEA

musikhjälpen.

Lyssnar på musikhjälpen större delen av dygnet den här veckan.

Kan inte sluta lyssna. Detta år är temat "Alla flickor har rätt att

gå i skolan" vilket jag tycker är så oerhört bra. Ett viktigt problem

som ofta (så som många andra orättvisor vad det gäller jämställdhet)

glöms bort bland alla andra hemskheter som finns i världen. 

En eloge ges också till de grymma programledarna som sitter i den

där buren i en hel vecka. De gör ett fantastiskt jobb! 

lussefika.

lussefika med luciatåget på SVT Play.

christmas tree.

I decorated the christmas tree with the kids yesterday so now we have

the real christmas feeling in our house too. I also baked some swedish

ginger bred cookies so we're all settled to begin the vacation and celebrate

christmas next week (not me really, but the kids are free from the 17th, I

work until the 22th of december and going home the 23th).

Christmas!

lucia.

Yesterday me, Beata and Matilda celebrated Lucia (even though the

real celebration is tomorrow) in the Swedish church. It was really

beautiful and I'm so happy that I can celebrate swedish traditions

here too. Because, what would a christmas without Lucia be?

family pictures.

Some more pictures from the weekend with my mum and Per-Arne.





Dinner with mum and P-A at at restaurant close to Saint Lazare. 


Christmas decorations in St G. 




Had morning coffee outside Sacre Coeur in the beautiful weather. 

Christmas market at Champs Elysée with a small Ice skating rink. A little

bit different than the one we have just outiside our house in Ängen.

Arc de triomphe with mum.

We finished the weekend in Paris with a dinner in my house with my host

family. Perfect ending of a very nice weekend!

goodbye.

visit.

My family is here, picked mum and Per-Arne up at the bus station this

morning. This afternoon have we eaten falafel, walked in Le Marais,

walked from Le Marais along the Seine, walked to musée du louvre,

walked pass musée du louvre, walked a little bit more and then we

drank coffee. A lot of walking but I guess that's the best way of

showing Paris even though the weather wasn't the best today. 

Now I'm working a couple of hours and tonight we're heading

for a nice meal at a restaurant in Paris! 






L'as du fallafel. Best falafel in Paris!

mamma.

Can't believe that I have a reunion with half my family tomorrow,

mum and Per-Arne is coming and I'm so exited. Haven't seen my

mum in four months (except on skype EVERY day...) and this is

the longest period I've ever been away from her. I know, I'm such

a baby but I just love my mum and I'm so happy that she's finally

coming so that she can meet my host family here and see the town

I'm living in. I want to show them everything, too bad Paris is so big

(what am I saying). I guess I will just show them the best parts this

time and keep the other lovely parts in a box until they come this

spring for the Paris marathon.

17 hours! <3



Bästa mamma.

...city.

snö.

Snöar det i värmland eller? (jag vet, urkass kvalite på min fina PSC bild

från facebook) Hoppas den ligger kvar tills jag kommer hem för här lär det

ju inte bli nån snö i alla fall verkar det som. 

Knäck

As the christmas junkie I am I had to do some christmas candy now after

the second advent so I did some swedish knäck. Yummie! 

Knäck.

Le Chat Potté.

Last night I had family night with my host family. We went to the cinema

all five together (the oldest girl was away this weekend with her school,

usually we're six all together) and saw Chat Potté, the new movie by Pixar.

It was fun and also the first 3D movie I've seen at the cinema. The 3D was

better than I expected. Thought it would be very bad quality and more irritating

for the eyes than fun but it wasn't at all. The quality was really good and I

will probebly see more movies in 3D in the future. Was a little bit funny though,

to take a two year old to a 3D cinema. He didn't really understand what the

glasses was all about so he watched most of the movie without them. 

Afterwards we went to McDonalds and had dinner. Couldn't have ended

my weekend in a better way than that.

L'église suédoise.

Dimanche:

This morning I went to the Swedish church in Paris where it was family sunday.

The kids played the history of the born of Jesus and afterwards there was a

christmas party when the kids showed a lucia cortege. It was really nice, made

me get the real christmas feeling even though it's raining like crazy and not

snowing the 4th of december. 

L'église suédoise.

Peter.

Samedi:

Went to théâtre Bobino to see Peter Pan. How fun! The actors were amazing

and I could follow the history just fine even though it was in French. Guess that

the fact that most lines were the same, just translated into french, like the ones

we had when I played Peter two years ago was helping. Had a great time there

and afterwards I did some christmas shopping so now I'm almost done with all

my gifts.

Cutest Pia waiting for Peter Pan to start.

Peter Pan

the only thing today.

the days go on.

Found the most amazing radio channel: P4 Bjällerklang. A channel

where they play only christmas songs from 21th of November until

the 9th of Januari. You can check it out here. 



Starting to realise that my blog is starting to become more of a

christmas blog than an au pair blog. But right now, my au pair life is

just rolling on very fast with just daily routines and there isn't so much

to wright about it other than that I like my job and my life here very

much right now. The kids will have school/la creche every day until

the 17th of december when the older kids get there christmas break.

Until then we have homework, hockey, tennis, bathing, dinner and

just ordinary every-day-life stuff to deal with. But I'm not complaining,

this is probebly the toughest but also the best job I will ever have.

Also, I need to tell you how proud I am that I was out doing sprints

this afternoon for the first time in my life. How did I become such

a runner?