Failed Housewife...

Yes, I'm afraid so. Yesterday, I managed to fail all my new duties miserably. These are just some of the things I forgot:


1. To take the washing out, so now have to put the wash on again.
2. To get either Dan or my breakfasts for this morning.
3. And to clean the house.
4. Unpack anything.


And the list goes on...


I did however manage to get one thing done and that was to buy some flowers, but then I didn't expect to fail at that.

Chocolate OR Scales

This morning I'd like to say we woke up excited that our stuff was turning up but instead we had moans of tiredness. When I asked Dan what he was most looking forward to arriving he exclaimed CHOCOLATE YUM, and I declared that I couldn't wait till the scales turned up...oh what a different world we live in! And boy oh boy I wish the scales hadn't arrived.



Dan Unpacking


Me Unpacking

So now we have all our stuff, we decided to head off and get me a French mobile number so I can start applying for jobs. And somehow we ended up going to the mjc http://www.mjcagora.com now I don't really understand what they do, but it wasn't quite what I expected...but I have signed up for French lessons in the afternoon on Mondays on top of all the other French lessons I have.

Pumpkins

I've been wanting to post all day, as I had so much to say this morning, but now I'm not sure whether I'll get it all out.


Yesterday most of the French people in the supermarket including the checkout girl were highly amused at my purchases: two huge pumpkins and a mop and bucket, but I didn't care, well not until I got on the tram later and got laughed at again...anyhoo Leo the dog seemed to like the pumpkin probably cause it smelt good.


Last night was interesting even if I might say somewhat disturbed! To start off with, it was "Il pleut des chats et des chiens", whilst we played like children making Jack O Lanterns to put on the balcony, both admitting that we'd like to throw pumpkin over each other. Oh I wish we didn't have carpet! Then after we went to bed, disturbing things began to happen... people, some may say "youths", began to holler and scream in the street and once they had finally dispersed (why the hell didn't someone call the police) the shutters started to rattle. I was convinced that someone was trying to break in - stupid I know as we're on the fourth floor...

Looking Up!

Yesterday was the first Monday I've actually felt like I wasn't going up the wall, so I can only presume that things are starting to look up. Not that anythings changed at all, it's just that in my head I now have a firm idea of how I'm going to look for a job and what I need to get one.


Malky has decided to leave Nice and head down to Antibes, so he doesn't have to get up so early plus he'll have a pool where he's staying and you can't argue with that. And we should be far more settled in the next few days with all our belongings turning up tomorrow and the internet man coming round on Thursday.


Plus last night we realised we may be double booked on Friday, which is a sure fire way of feeling at home. This weekend it's Halloween and it seems that although it goes by hardly noticed in England it looks like things go off with a bang here. Probably something to do with all the expats. The Irish believing that it was them who created Halloween although I thought it was an American thing.


Two restaurants to rave about in Vieux Nice
Du Gesu - absolutely amazing pizza's and Pasta Basta wow what a Bolognese I thought that nothing could beat my Mum's but I'm sorry Mum finally a restaurant has trumped you.

New Flat

Voila...We have finally moved into our new flat. Which is fantastic. Still no job, although I have been walking a dog called Leo for an American girl.


We celebrated with a magnum of champagne and lunch with Malky on the new balcony.


Well since I last posted we've been to Monaco, refused entry to the casino for a pee and found a German bar with men in lederhosen. Found a new bar which is a bit like a preclub bar, and been refused entry to a club called High and ended up in gay club called Le Klub and hopefully made a new French friend. But best of all we spent yesterday sunbathing on the beach just a 10 minute walk away from the new flat.

Lonely!

Well, I expected to be a lot of things out here but I didn't expect to be quite as lonely as I am. Fed up off being by myself all day applying for jobs or traipsing the streets looking for SIM cards or trying to find associations that your not really sure you want to belong to in the first place. I'm sure it's not easy for Dan either but at least he has a purpose to be out here and people to talk to all day. Most days seem to start like this at the moment, they then generally get a little better in the afternoon and complete despair returns usually at about 5ish.

I guess I best go for my daily walk.

Je voudrais ou Je m'appelle?

It's Friday. Yehaa!! I've been really looking forward to today as the weekend means I don't have to spend all day by myself hoping a tourist will take pity and chat to me. And this weekend it looks like I'll have my boy all to myself, the current plan is that he's going to pick up les patins so we can go rollerskating together, and the rest of the weekend we'll spend exploring villages that you can't get to by train?? Oh and maybe head to the waterpark - sounds like we have a lot to do this weekend!


So this week, I've been to three interviews and got offered one that I decided to turn down, and apart from that I've been exploring Nice; I've found that the Gallerie Layfette does not have free toilets pah, nor does it sell books. And just when I thought I had Je voudrais down and was starting to feel confident in one of my only sentences, disaster struck and I said "Je m'appelle un sandwich jambon?" Followed a couple of hours later in the bakery by me asking for Champagne rather than some sort of bread which may be spelt the same but is pronounced completely different. What else have I been up to? I've been chatted up in the laundrette, I've bought some baby books that Dan is currently reading me before bed and I've walked up the Chateau and I've bought a couple of postcards but failed to buy stamps.



Todays objective is to go and get a headset, buy some stamps and post some more pictures.

2nd Day in Nice

So, it's been a while since I've managed to update the blog and so much has happened in the last couple of weeks. I've given up my job and am now looking for another one, the house has all been packed up and mostly in storage at a location unknown, we went and stayed at the loft suite at Marmadukes http://www.marmadukeshotels.co.uk/ a rather wonderful hotel and well worth the visit. And then back to cleaning the house before friends came to drop us off at the airport and Au Revoir!

Its' our 2nd full day in Nice now, and the Sun is already out and Dan has gone to work albeit a little nervous. We spent yesterday exploring our new city and taking a few photo's, starting off with breakfast by the sea. And today I'm going to try and make it to Monaco and back all by myself, tricky because of my limited French. Maybe I'll just go for a walk...