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lesmisloony Today Kelley helped me fix my résumé which I hadn't edited in like two years and she made it BETTER THAN EVER. Omg I am so excited. That was my last excuse to be lazy about job/career hunting.
The first thing I used it for was to apply for a job as an au pair in Paris. I found a website where you have to pay an agency in New York a fee less than $200 but they match you with a family and walk you through all the visa paperwork and apparently you also have to register in, get this, A FRENCH GRAMMAR COURSE AT THE SORBONNE. Well, I already beasted intermediate and advanced level courses so I may as well try my hand at superior. Anyway au pair seems like the best deal because it's room and board, they pay your navigo (whaaat), there's some kind of health insurance deal, and there's STILL weekly pay. Alls you gotta do is mind some French kids, pick them up from school and babysit "up to two nights a week". They say jobs as an au pair last from six to ten months. GET ME THE TEN MONTHS PLEASE. And then I think if you find work while you're already in France with a visa you can, like, just go to the prefecture to get the paperwork to get the visa changed or something? That's what google taught me.
Also a young man stopped by who may take my room and pay most of my share of the rent, just sharing the massive closet and bathroom with me while I sleep in the living room. That would make life so much cheaper and everything would be so good. He didn't seem super sketchy.
Also Kelley and I put ridiculous makeup on each other, dressed up in costumes, and did a photoshoot.
Tomorrow my coworkers invited me to a Doctor Who marathon.
My friend Véronique told a story about meeting Patrice in Epernay this past weekend wherein she had a photo with me in it for him to sign and Patrice went from being a rushed cranky shypants to the most patient celebrity ever merely at the sight of a photograph of me so HA.
I clearly can't go live at home even though it IS free room and board. My mom and I had the most irritating fight about going to church and just ugh. It's so weird to talk to her because I realise she doesn't LISTEN, she just turns everything into a story about herself.
If this au pair thing accepts me, I think they'll ship me back to Paris in... August! Cross your fingers, loves. I wouldn't even have to unpack the rest of the way!
The first thing I used it for was to apply for a job as an au pair in Paris. I found a website where you have to pay an agency in New York a fee less than $200 but they match you with a family and walk you through all the visa paperwork and apparently you also have to register in, get this, A FRENCH GRAMMAR COURSE AT THE SORBONNE. Well, I already beasted intermediate and advanced level courses so I may as well try my hand at superior. Anyway au pair seems like the best deal because it's room and board, they pay your navigo (whaaat), there's some kind of health insurance deal, and there's STILL weekly pay. Alls you gotta do is mind some French kids, pick them up from school and babysit "up to two nights a week". They say jobs as an au pair last from six to ten months. GET ME THE TEN MONTHS PLEASE. And then I think if you find work while you're already in France with a visa you can, like, just go to the prefecture to get the paperwork to get the visa changed or something? That's what google taught me.
Also a young man stopped by who may take my room and pay most of my share of the rent, just sharing the massive closet and bathroom with me while I sleep in the living room. That would make life so much cheaper and everything would be so good. He didn't seem super sketchy.
Also Kelley and I put ridiculous makeup on each other, dressed up in costumes, and did a photoshoot.
Tomorrow my coworkers invited me to a Doctor Who marathon.
My friend Véronique told a story about meeting Patrice in Epernay this past weekend wherein she had a photo with me in it for him to sign and Patrice went from being a rushed cranky shypants to the most patient celebrity ever merely at the sight of a photograph of me so HA.
I clearly can't go live at home even though it IS free room and board. My mom and I had the most irritating fight about going to church and just ugh. It's so weird to talk to her because I realise she doesn't LISTEN, she just turns everything into a story about herself.
If this au pair thing accepts me, I think they'll ship me back to Paris in... August! Cross your fingers, loves. I wouldn't even have to unpack the rest of the way!
