Japunzel

I'm pissed again.
Got both kids now, this entire week. That's not a problem, as long as either one or both parents are home.
But tomorrow they're going to Cirque du Soleil (yes, AGAIN. The mom wanted to take the dad since last time his step son banned him.)
I was supposed to go out with the au pairs tomorrow. In stead, I'm looking towards working first 3 hours in the morning, and later between 15.30 and 23.00. This means 7h 30 mins of work.
Please keep in mind that when they asked me to come here, the deal was 3-4 hours of work each day.
I know that tomorrow is an extreme case. But today is an ordinary day and that means I worked between 7.15 - 10.00 and will work again between 16.30 and 19.30. If all goes well. Sometimes I work until 20.00 or later. Either way, that's at least 5h 45 mins. And they imply they want more tasks done, like taking out the glass to the recycling bins at the busstation. It's not very far, but in the wrong direction for any of my errands.
I feel used and lied to.

I'm gonna comfort myself by packing my bag (going to Amsterdam this friday to drop one out of two heavy bags there), and a cup of hot chocolate.

You know I hate whining blogs, so I'm gonna compensate this with some of the things I'm glad to have experienced here.

• My visit at Cirque du Soleil. Awesome and I was speechless.
• That I met Diederik again. The proximity that made it possible that we'd be together again.
• The fleamarkets. Very interesting mix of really old stuff (this is the kind of country where they save a lot of weird things for ages and then sell them) but also brand new (creative people selling jewelries and other tiny things) and stolen of course.
• The bakery products! This is, like France, a country where fresh bread is more important than fresh milk. And they take it seriously. If it says "chocolate muffins", someone didn't just add a spoon of cacoa. No, they double the weight by actually putting chocolate in it. Even if it's bought at the supermarket.
• Having so close to everything. I mean, this is a very small country :P The forest is a 15 mins walk from here. The weird cities aren't far either and this might be the reason why trains are so cheap. Going to Antwerpen back and forth during the weekend is 7 euros. Same as a taxi home a saturday night if I share it.
• Discovering that places like Celtica exists. Thought they were all in my fantasies.
• As much as I miss Malmo, it was nice to get some distance.
• See Amsterdam again.
• Having Diederik here (I won over him in beer drinking, I feel so awesome.)
• Despite my complaining: Studying french. Interesting language (I'm not saying I understand it or speak it, but I am fascinated.)
• Getting more acquainted with the dutch language (same here, can't talk it, but to be honest, reading, I understand more of it than french)
• Despite my complaints: Learning how kids function. Including how to change their napkins.


Ok, this should suffice for now. I'll write more if I need to keep complaining. Like tomorrow for example -_-