Confessions of A Working Girl

So, reposting these entries, I noticed that I never put in an entry for France. I can't remember why.

Basically, I got to France by bus, which took like 14 hours. Then I took the metro to my hostel, the Three Ducks hostel. As I looked at yet another set of stairs and sighed, these two old ladies helped me carry my luggage up the stairs. And they insisted on walking me all the way to the hostel! The people at the hostel were nice.  I visited the eiffel tower, found out that France does not have peanut butter. I met a girl, Ayako and we became friends. We spent Christmas Day together. I visited the Lourve (boy is it big!) and went with Ayako to Versailles. I loved Versailles. I'm definitely going back someday when the gardens are open.

Leaving France was just as difficult as leaving Germany. The flight, again, was cancelled and I had to rush to the train...

So…leaving France they cancelled not one but two of my flights. I was pretty mad, considering that I had had to wait in the airport all day. Then, when they said that there may not even be a flight the next day I gave up, gathered my luggage, and ran to take the train. If I had known about the train before I had booked the plane tickets, I wouldn’t have bothered flying…or maybe I would have, since the train was like 230 euros or so. So on the train, the boy my seat was next to was really nice. We talked for practically the whole way. Once at the train station in England, he helped me find the way to go in order to get to Oxford, which is where my cousin lives. Since I can’t remember if I mentioned her before, I’m making up a name here and if I need to later I’ll go back and change it. My cousin “Sara” had just gotten married in October. My mom had gone to the wedding, but I was already in Spain at that point. Her husband’s name is “Joseph”.I got to Oxford around 1am. After waking up at 5am in order to get to the airport to ‘catch’ a 8am flight, that was a long time….will add more details later…Last night, Joseph, Sara and I played trivial pursuit. But it was the english edition. Some of the questions were really hard! Joseph seemed to know practically all of the answers though. I knew a few…but usually when it wasn’t my turn to answer the question. Although one I did get was “Who co-starred with Burt Ward in ‘Batman’?” Easy! Adam West!Too bad there weren’t more questions like that.Today was only packing. Packing. And more packing. Although I did put more photos on facebook, and I finally figured out how to make my computer write japanese symbols. ニス! 易い　今や　私 わ　ノウハウ・ =PI need to finish packing…but first I need to wait for the remainder of my clothes to dry…since two of the things I’m waiting for are jeans, they take up a lot of room, so I can’t pack too much more until I pack those…Oh, and I’m rethinking my idea of hell again…there’s got to be somewhere there that people who post spam and people who create viruses on computers for no good reason go. Hmmm….maybe they could go to a room with computers…all of which have viruses on them…and they can try for eternity (or at least a long while) to undo the viruses but won’t be able to. That’s what I call karma. I like that idea…So…my flight’s tomorrow…too bad there’s no internet access on planes. Otherwise I would be able to update the Germany post, write the France post and finish this one. Oh well. I will go back to them though…it’s why I at least titled it and left a space…so that I remember that I haven’t written it yet.

1 Comment » Meg:

January 21st, 2011 @ 12:45 pm Hi Wendy - I was so glad to find this again. The last time I looked there was nothing and I was a little worried. Some fluke of cyperspace no doubt. We got your post card from Salamanca. Thank you. Sounds like you’re doing really well. Eager to hear about Japan. - Meg