Categories: france, work, visitors, my-beloved
Date: 08 June 2009 11:24:18
Well, it was brilliant and a little weird receiving friends in a new home town and a new country. I have to admit it.
Speaking mostly English for an afternoon and laughing lots was good. Dith and Jeff, it was wonderful seeing you both. Fabrice had a great afternoon when his brain wasn't frying from 'too much perfect English' and he loved Jeff's perfect French, so who could ask for more.
I finally made it down the mac shop a couple of weeks ago to ask them about a French power cable for my iMac since there's no sign of them selling any on either .fr or .uk apple stores! I had a lovely surprise really. The guy said he didn't have any but rang the repairs bloke who's based round the corner and when I got there the bloke simply pulled out a new cable from under his counter and gave it to me.
Moi (in French): "Wow! Are you serious!"
Mac Man (in French, grining): " Yes. That's what we're like here."
And I walked home a very happy lady and now have a spare transformer plug and UK mac mains cable.
Work's coming on ok but without much hope of anything permanent for a while yet. I finished a very nice month in the day-centre and had 16 hours last week in a day and then a housing centre. This week I've got 35 hours in housing places based next to last month's centre... Which means I have an hour there and the same back, twice a day... Next week, so far, nothing.
I'm a little impatient for the appointment I have at the end of the month to start the process of validating my UK qualifications into the French diploma in social care.
Fabrice and I watched Monty Python's Holy Grail on Saturday. I'd never seen it whole though I'd seen most scenes and heard about them over the years... Beware the taunting, my Lovely French Man has renewed his weapon store :P