i had all sorts of wacky dreams last night. the first one had to do with me not having my passport at this restaurant here in basel and when the waitress told me i couldn't leave without using my passport i lost my shit and was throwing glass cups around and smashing plates. very bizarre.
the family is off to do their shopping in germany so i get a nice quiet morning. i like this and i think this will happen every saturday morning!
i know i talk about them a lot but they are not bad people. they have been very nice helping me call the swiss about apartments cause i speak terrible and slow german.
i think the main factor is the idea that while mother's know best, the person they hire to take charge of their children while they are gone also knows a thing or two about taking care of kids.
i asked her when i got this contract to start telling her kids that she was going to be going back to work much like i told henry i was going on a swiss adventure.
but they are not just telling them and i think this is going to make it harder on me but such is life and i have been alone with them enough this week and they cry a moment then they are fine.
fasnacht is very early monday morning and if i can manage it i will get up at 3 in the morning and walk down to the city center to see the darkness and the lighting of the lanterns...but this will also make for a very very long day with the children!
it's very quiet here. i am used to trinidad and copters and cops and sirens and people on stoops dealing drugs and shit.
it's funny when tamara says at the river at night one has to be careful because of pick pockets! i am thinking by the river dumping bodies and bullets flying or something!
it's all relative. sometimes i think people don't give me enough street credit or enough something for having lived how i lived as a kid.
so yeah, the family is ok. living and working with them is okay. it will help me save money so that's a good thing. it's very expensive here. 3 francs to just ride one way on the tram. i have to find the place to get the monthly pass!
then it is less.
now have to get dressed, figure out what i am doing today!
whoop.
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sounds like you and mom gotta talk, though. she needs to stop giving you contradictory directions, and she needs to trust you with her kids, or this isn't going to work. I'm suspecting the kids (W in particular) are picking up on her fear, and getting afraid of you: she's allowing that to happen, and you need to point this out to her.
ReplyDeletedid you ever friend frank, btw?
i did friend frank....haven't heard back from him. i think today was a good day and the kids totally didn't even blink when she left the house and they were happy to see her when she got home. it's an adjustment for everyone and she knows this.
ReplyDeletethe thing too is me still living here and having to work now as well and not really having a set schedule for myself. i did say today though that i was done for good with duty when both parents got home.