4 days to go

It's Monday night and I'm all aflutter because I just got off the phone from Angela. For those of you who don't know she is my best friend and I am going to Geneva to be her nanny.

It's her birthday today and she sounds so homesick. Their uplift still hasn't arrived. Well, some of it has but customs won't release that which has arrived until it all arrives. So, her poor girls have nothing familiar around them, she has basic supplies in her home and no toys in her house. She has really bad jetlag, can't speak the language and is in a state of culture shock.

She says that they do EVERYTHING differently there. They eat differently, they drive differently and they are from another planet. Her words. Not mine. :-)

But, I am still excited and can't wait to get there. The time to this point has traveled so quickly. It seems like only yesterday that I jokingly said I would nanny for her if she was serious and already I only have 4 days until my flight!

I actually made a start at packing yesterday.... And I haven't done anything more since other than sit around staring vacantly into space with a stupid grin on my face. I am sure the people at work think I am nuts. Speaking of work, I am only there in body and barely there in mind. It was really stupid of me to say I was going to work the Monday and Tuesday. What the hell was I thinking?

Well the picture attached to this post is the house where I will be living. I have been told that I will be in the attic.... no flower jokes please.... hehe It's a massive estate, so Angela tells me, and it's close to everything and about a 5 minute walk to most amenities including Ava's (Angela and Paul's youngest daughter) day care. The house is on 4 levels as there is a basement. The weather at the moment is 30 degrees Celsius but according to the weather reports it isn't going to last long. I am hoping that it at least lasts a couple of days after I get there. Despite the fact that we really didn't have much of a winter this year in Sydney I am over all the cardigans.

I'm going to live in another country. I know it is only for 3 months, but I'M GOING TO LIVE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY!!! I love saying it.

One more day of work.... oooo I like saying that too!! HAHA