Hello there again!

What's new with you? I suppose you can't really answer me, but if you feel like letting me know that would be awesome :-P What's new with me? This week I have been working A LOT. I had a family that asked me to babysit every night, and it was the most stressful job ever. It was three families of 2 kids, 3 of which were supposed to sleep all night when I was there, but inevitably because of the older kids woke up and then wouldn't go back to sleep because their parents weren't around. And to top things off it turns out they were gypsies (I use the term loosely... families that live in caravans I guess...) and they managed to rip me off! On Wednesday night when they came back, it was only the mothers who claimed that they had forgotten to bring any money with them and would pay me on Friday when I came. Since I had already been babysitting for them for 4 nights and they'd paid me every time I didn't think it was that big a deal. Lo and behold when I arrived on Friday they had left town and weren't there! So I didn't get paid the money they owed me and to top things off, I had forgotten my earphones there and now have to buy new ones! I was almost more relieved than anything though because I REALLY didn't feel like babysitting until all hours of the night last night so I was more happy to not have to work than anything :-P

In other news I got a job! There is a Canadian bar here called the Black Bear. The owner found out that I'm Canadian and living in Les Gets for the winter, so he called me up and offered me a job! The 3 people that work there now (2 of them Canadian) have been working since the beginning of December 7 nights a week, so from now on I'll be working 3 nights a week to give each of them a day off. I started training on Tuesday where I was completely lost. I'm waitressing (I definately could not do the bartending! My bartending skills from the Pig amount to knowing how to pour beer.. haha) I had a few people tell me they could tell it was my first day, but on Thursday when I did another night of training, the same people were telling me that I was doing much better. I was much more comfortable with my surroundings and what I was expected to be doing. My first real shift is tonight and I'm really looking forward to it! Not only is it a fun job, but I will also get a chance to meet some more people my age and hopefully make some friends :-)

I think that's about it. I'm still looking into going to Switzerland for a few days at the end of January (which is approaching alarmingly fast) but having trouble finding a hostel or somethign not too expensive to stay in. We'll see what I can find, but I want to go for sure :-) Hope everyone is having a good winter. I hear the skiing conditions aren't so good in Nova Scotia, but for those of you that don't like snow, you might be happy about it. Talk to you soon!

Kaila