Amazing Day!!

Today was a very big day for me!! I had my housing/au pair interview with a lady today at noon. I was super nervous that I would get lost on the metro system, so I left le Foyer a little after 9. I didn't get lost at all though (which made me really proud, considering my horrible sense of direction); however, then I was in the neighborhood WAY too early! Luckily, the apartment building is right next to le Tour Eiffel and Champs de Mars, so I just sat in the park and people watched for a good 2 hours.

This is the walk I get to take to get from the apartment building to the Eiffel Tower.



My new neighborhood :)

 I finally went to the apartment for my interview and I got the au pair position/housing! The woman who lives there is named Beatrice Collet and she seems to be an amazing person. We talked for a long time and she showed me around her absolutely beautiful apartment, which has a great view of Champs de Mars and le Tour Eiffel. She then showed me to my quarters, which is my own studio apartment, two stories above their apartment. I can either get there from their apartment, or I have my own entrance. In order to live there, all I have to do is spend 2 hours a day from Monday to Friday with her kids. She wants me to be like an older sister to them and maybe help them with their English homework. I haven't met them yet, but apparently they are super low key and sweet. She hired me on the spot and I was SO excited because I absolutely love the neighborhood!
When I was done with my interview, I went back to the foyer and found that a bunch of people were headed to Pigalle, famous for having le Moulin Rouge, which evidently leads to a street consisting mainly of sex shops (tres scandaleuse!!!). We walked around for a long time and got an early dinner at a place that had epic salads that were huge!!! They were delicious! We were out for around 5 hours and finally decided to head back to the foyer.

While I was walking up the stairs to my room, another group of people were coming down and invited me to a picnic under the Eiffel Tower. So despite my fatigue, I decided to go with them. It was a lovely evening full of wine, food, and friendship. Besides a bit of cold wind, it was a lovely evening! :)