Red Tape

So I am making progress with boy and am super excited! Yesterday as we were driving home from his tennis practice, he volunteered to talk to me and told me that he won a tennis game he played. He scored 31 points, and his other friend scored 30 points. And then today, when I picked him up, he happily greeted me with a Hello, which never happens. And also, he asked to play ping pong with me and taught me some words and some terms in French. So I think he likes me now? We shall see… I think so J

As for today… did my usual thang with school and kids and headed to the city to the US Embassy, which is HEAVILY guarded. I attempted to tell the guys in French what I needed, and after 2 sentences, they said I could speak English. I need to get the US Embassy to sign my birth certificate to become a registered au pair in France and get put into the health care system; it is just official stuff I have to do. The guards told me I have to make an appointment though to enter, so I looked at the site just now, and it is super confusing, and I think I have to pay like $50 for this bs uhgg.

30 mins later…

Well this birth certificate shit is absolute shit. Apparently the US Embassy can’t help me upon further research. I have to effing contact Puerto Rico about his. How the hell can I do that? I am in France. Plus another language barrier... I know like 5 words of Spanish. Uhg this is bs. Wish I knew I had to have an apostille on that damn certificate. I have to go through so much red tape for this. I can’t even figure out who is needed to sign this thing from Puerto Rico… all the info is there for the states, but not our sketchy territories. Why was I just not born in a state…life would be easier right now. Whatever venting session done I guess.

After the fail at the US Embassy, I mosied around the Tuileries Gardens because I was right there. I texted          Paige though if she could meet up because I had a lot of time to kill. I ended up going to Jardin du Luxembourg to see her, and we just hung out in a metro for 30 minutes killing time before our lunch dates with people. It was raining, so we wanted shelter. I then headed to have lunch with Jérôme, and we had lunch with Emilie, a fellow SKEMA student in Raleigh last semester. Coincidentally, she works across the street from Jérôme, so that’s why they arranged to do lunch, and I invited myself.

Headed back home after that before buying some toothpaste and some international stamps. I also bought some brown tights today because the ones I have got a snag in them. I then made my train. I literally read like 5 mins on the train and fall asleep. Every time without fail. I always set an alarm on my iphone to wake up 2 minutes before my stop, which works perfectly. It is always a half sleep state, but it is relaxing anyway. There is something so rhythmic and comfortable about the train. It is a real legit train, not the crappy RER, so it is comfortable and looks clean and not dingy.

Home tonight was the usual pretty much. The girl had piano, and I just wrote postcards the whole time (it is only 30 mins, so I stay). After school, I got candy for the girl, so when the boy saw this, he asked if I could drive him to get candy too. I told the kids today I am their chauffer, and they agreed. This is very much true. I also had to pick up the dad from the train station tonight because he got home from his trip; his train was 2.5 hours late! So he was on the train like 8 hours today…bad luck.

When we got home, I did dinner. Just heated up some leek soup I made last week and boiled some needles to have cheese with. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Then I went to my room, skyped my mom, uploaded pictures on facebook, writing this, researching stupid birth certificate stuff. I hopefully will skype my good friend, Elizabeth, tonight too! Tomorrow no school…not too excited, but whatever. I can come home and sleep after I take the boy to the bus, or I can be productive and run. The girl has a friend spending the night, so hopefully I don’t have to entertain tomorrow. I know I am lazy, but I am a busy person all day every day, so I want to be lazy when I can.