Vancouver, Canada

It's the night before my October Au Pair Care meeting. This month's activity: weekend trip to Vancouver! I've been looking forward to this trip ever since I came here and it's a weird feeling I'm actually gonna go tomorrow. Vancouver is only a 4 hour bus drive away, so not too far, but still.. It is going to be another country and after this weekend I can say that I have been in Canada! Me and Daniela just went to pick up Lena at the ferry, so she can travel with us tomorrow. Besides my family I consider myself so lucky to have found 2 awesome friends like Daniela and Lena, both from Germany. Me and Daniela both live on Bainbridge Island and meet up once or twice a week, and email each other back and forth the whole time too. Haha, she loves gossip as much as I do and we just get along great. I'm sure that after this year me and her will still visit each other, at least once or twice. I know that it's always hard to keep in contact with people you don't see and I already find that with my friends from the Netherlands too. I'm awful at writing back emails and even though I could go on and on about my day and the kids, you would probably not even want to hear it and it quite honestly gets boring to read and write cause it's the same everytime; it's always great.

Wednesday night is from now on our meeting night for me and the other 5 girls here on the Island who I hang out with most. Elisabeth (germany), Anne-Marie (germany), Desiree (austria - but speaks german), Linnea (sweden!) and Daniela (germany), lots of german girls. Luckily they make an effort to speak English when me and Linnea are around, and luckily at times that they don't make that effort I notice that my German is actualy better than I thought. Last wednesday we watched the movie "The Reader" together. It's so much fun to just get out of the house and hang out and talk together. Even if it's simple, there is no drinking and we're all back at home before 10pm, it's just as much fun as going out. Last wednesday Daniela and I drove home together and Daniela needed to tank some gas. We both had never done that before, so we were talking about all the things that could go wrong with paying and stuff like that. When we got there though, the things we thought would be the easiest turned out to be the most trouble. Getting the lid off.. We were twisting and turning for about 5 minutes, untill a guy came out to help us, seeing that we had no idea what we were doing. (It was hilarious, but I guess you had to kind of be there.) When we finally got the thing working I said to Daniela: "Isn't amazing that we are here in America, tanking gas." And we both started laughing. It really is amazing.

Other cool stuff; today my new shoes and t-shirt that I ordered from converse.com arrived! And I'm wearing my oversized official Death Cab For Cutie fanclub tshirt as my PJ's. I got the cutest slippers ever, they even beat my big all-star ones, and yesterday I was singing and dancing with the kids to my favourite kind of music. At least they don't tell me to shut up. ;)

Okay, I better go to bed. Got to be ready to leave at 6:40 am tomorrow! And be ready to party, cause the drinking age in Canada is 19!! I have the feeling that I will visit Canada more then once this year..

As my hostdad would say: Cheers!