Jour de Congé .....

The weather is so glorious today, I'm making the most of it sitting outside with strawberries and a good old fashioned English cup of tea!


Today I have a "jour de congé" (a day off) as I did a full shift on Sunday. The shift went surprisingly well, as it was the first time I'd been left by myself for an actual full shift, but everything went well; I did my work, the guests arrived as planned and I manage to deal with everything. The only minor blip was when the taxi arrived WITHOUT the guy it was supposed to be picking up ... when I spoke to the driver, he was like, "oh I waited for 10 mins, then I left." So I had to try and track down the whereabouts of this guy, without much luck! I found out yesterday he had missed the plane and arrived on Monday instead of Sunday - crisis averted!


Two new stagiaires also arrived on Sunday, as I mentioned in the last blog. The are both really nice, both French speaking, but one of them wants to practise her English so we do a bit of both. It's nice having other people around in the villa, both nights so far we have been up til the early hours chatting and playing French Trivial Pursuit which surprisingly I won, although I was given QUITE A LOT of help!


Today I've also managed to open a bank account with the Banque Postale, which was nice and simple are all the confusion I had in banks last week; as far as I know the Banque Postale is the only place that do short-term accounts as I was turned away everywhere else. I'm pleased that's (almost) up and running, as I'm due to get paid soon. Apparently it has to be assessed at Grenoble first to get the okay, but the woman said there shouldn't be any problems.


Hmm, I don't really know what to do with myself for the rest of the day ...  the girls are at work until later tonight, I'm the only one lazing about! I'm done everything I needed to this morning. I also went to H&M and treated myself to a new pair of pants and sunglasses, which I'm wearing now and just realised I've left the price sticker on - 12.95 sticker, not very chic :)  Oh I do plan on booking my rail tickets tonight for when I go to Chateauroux to spend Easter with Andreas - I even managed to change my rota around for next month so I have 5 consecutive days in a row off woop! Can't wait!


Now time for a little laze sous le soleil ...