Christmas time

It's a shame that not everything can be nice all the time. That's what I've noticed in the last few weeks. After a few weeks, the days were still the same, Jemima started to get worse with me again, I hadn't met many people and I was working inside the house for all the 40 hours.
Homesick? No, I don't want to go home. But still I was looking forward to the end of June, when my trip back to Holland starts. I was just not feeling any emotions. For the people who don't know me very well; if I don't feel emotions, something's not right.
So, something had to change! And I changed so much that I hardly have any time left now. I met about 30 other au pairs, some live close, some live far away. Lotte is a Dutch (yay!) aupair who lives 5 minutes away from me, which is great! Besides meeting au pairs I've become a member of a gym in Vaucluse. I know that that is quite a surprise, since I've never done much sports, but don't panic. I'm not going to turn into some weird fitness freak. I just want to do the 5km color run in the olympic stadion here in Sydney, in February. The 5k color run is a run where you start with a white top on and eventually, I don't exactly know how, you'll finish with a top (and probably a head as well) full of colours! I think they're throwing powder or whatever. Anyway, I can't join a 5k run if I can't even run 5 kilometres. So that's why I'm going to do something about it!
To make my life nicer here (wow, that sounds dramatic), I've also asked Claire if I can go out and about with the children instead of just staying inside and doing the washing and tidying. And I can tell you that it worked. I don't know what happened, but this week we've done so many things that the house is a complete mess again. Not that I mind. It's not my house. And I'm in Australia, so I think I should be outside, enjoyin the summer :)

Speaking of summer, a few days ago I heard a christmas song somewhere and I honestly thought; 'why is someone playing a christmas song in the middle of summer? Oh wait, it's November.' November. It's the end of the year. I think I'll just skip the christmas feeling this year, because lying on the beach in my bikini with 'it's christmas time' playing on my iPod is not going to work.