boobie-licious

my homepage for the blog (where i sign in and such) is in dutch, which always makes me smile because no matter where i turn here, it seems like i'm always out of the loop.

ughh my hair is still damp from 10:15 am, as in 11 hours ago. My hair is getting super long and is soo thick. i'm almost done the conditioner i brought with me from america, so today i went to buy conditioner at the grocery store. not just any conditioner, the cheapest. i'm on a budget. i realized that if i only took this job for the salary, i'd have to be really dumb. even the housekeeper told me i don't get paid enough. me and the housekeeper chatted for a while today. i really like her. i gave her some of the cookies that we made. that's one thing about this family: they don't seem to give much to others. like at the park, the kids are always mooching off of the others, but when i suggested that we bring some of our cookies to the park to share with the people that always share with them, they were like WHAT?! and also their relationship with others. they seem to really keep to themselves. the housekeeper (her name's fleury, so i'll call her that) was asking me all sorts of questions about the family. she didn't even know where they were from! if i had a housekeeper, i'd give her food and talk to her and be her friend. it was so funny. she asked me what they do at night because they don't have a tv and she said that that's super weird. and they also don't have air conditioning. i made her a coffee because she had to leave the house early. she's from romania, like all the good gymnasts. i was happy to talk with her: we're kinda in the same boat. we both have these elaborate histories that the family really knows nothing about, but we do a lot for them and we're really interested in their lives. yeah, i was sad all week because she hadn't come to clean, and i was worried that they fired her, but then she walked in the house and i was so happy.

i started my other piece of art today and talked to my poppa and made the kids lunch. today was day 2 of having them completely in my care from 7 am in the morning til 7 am at night. NO PARENTS! the mom made chicken yesterday, but it had a bone in it and i don't even know what body part it was, so i refrained from eating that and let the kids have 1.5 pieces of identifiable chicken, while i had turkey and beans. i also made them french fries in the oven which made them ever so happy.

then i got the kids and got the girl and she carried one of my bags home because i had two backpacks that were super heavy ( i had to take the boy's bag when he went to judo). so i told her that if she did it, i'd give her a piece of candy when we got back. she was so happy, and she promised that it was just between us two, but that didn't keep her from telling everyone that she wasn't going to tell them what awesome thing she did with me. i was like great. fml. whatever, if the parents are worried about their kids' candy intake, then maybe they should cut back on their oil and meat consumption. just a suggestion.

i watched a movie with the girl in french and it was pretty cool. i understood a fair share of it. tomorrow is the first match of the world cup, so i think ill go to the bar to watch it because france is playing!

ooooh and dinner was so good. we had green beans with these little morsels of something that was the same color as beef jerkey. after i tried it and liked it, i learned it was smoked duck. well quack me over, it was DANK. i liked my duck. and baby potatoes (like smaller than a quarter...no lie) and peppers. oh so many vegetables. i was in heaven. and it was the dad's bday, so we gave him the cookies. and he got 2 cds and a comic book, which i saw a boobie in, so im not sure what kinda comic book that it. hahah no, i mean the french are more boobie-licious than we are, so im sure it's just fine.

bonne nuit!
chels