Today was an early morning wake up for us, well mainly Elise. After waking up at 7 we headed into the living room for about ten minutes before I decided to head back to bed and Elise decided to continue staying awake and playing spinnicles, a game I will never understand why she finds it fun. I was definitely in the mood for a good piece of toast that morning but after opening up and examining the cupboards and fridge I realized our groceries had become pretty scarce; understandable though since we hadn't done a good grocery shopping job in awhile. My breakfast ended up consisting of two mini oranges and a piece of chocolate. Today was the day that I was to meet the family interested in me becoming their au pair, so I had been nervous for the last day or so and continued to be nervous all day. After catching up on the latest House episode and watching a hilarious episode of family guy, I started to plan out how to get to their house. The family did offer to pick me and Elise up but I decided it would probably be better if we made our own way there. The family wanted us to meet them at their house at five so there wasn't too much time since I had woken up at 11 but we figured we could fit in a drink at our new little favourite coffee shop, World Coffee. The service isn't great but the drinks are quite excellent. We decided to catch the bus back home since we had been running short on time. There was no ticket machine at the stop but since we have discovered they have one on the bus we need not worry that is if the machine isn't out of service, unfortunately this was our case. Elise and I only made it one stop then we hopped off the bus, we were too concerned about being caught ticket-less again. We raced home, only to grab the instructions and then race to the S-bahn station. As we were sitting on the bench some boys across the tracks were hiding behind a sign smoking, they couldn't have been over 13 years of age. Elise and I were repulsed. The boys were little brats, they were yelling at people at the station and attempting to throw rocks at us. Luckily for us their throws only made is about halfway across the tracks. As Elise and I were just about to board the train, I took a last glance at the boys only to witness one of the boys scream "Hail Hitler" and give the salute. We were sickened.
The dinner went pretty well. The house they lived in was pretty large and newly renovated. The children are adorable, they don't speak any English but I still believe they will warm up to me pretty easily. The parents are extremely nice people. The hours seemed a little longer than I wanted to do but the dinner was only a meet the family dinner, the actual business talk would come later. The father was nice enough to drive us home afterward which we were glad about so we didn't make it home too late. We only watched one episode of Grey's Antomy and headed to bed.
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