Waitressing?

August is almost over aaa!! I seem to have found two jobs, a babysitting job for durring the week and a waitressing job for the weekends maybe? I'm not entirely sure how long the waitressing job is going to last, maybe they told me but maybe they didn't... in any event it's great experience and I'm getting paid. So woopie! I've been working there a week now, it's called "Le Colorado" after a late 70's american sitcom about the founding of the state of Colorado (never heard of it). I just started taking orders which is awesome. It's a family restaurant and I do the afternoon shift, and like any typical french bistro there are two entrees and two apetisers that change daily, along with the sides. It's definitely an engaging job, very physical and lots of memorisation. Plus I have to get used to all the food vocabulary; goujonette for fried fish, oh my goodness there are like a million different types of fishes they eat over here...

So I don't know if I'm going to be able to do this job durring the school year, but it's allowing me to become accustom to serving tables in french, which is great. Honestly if being a waitress doesn't work out for me it's not the end of the world, it's not a particulairly low stress job and I'm not phenominally jaw droppingly gifted at it, which isn't a big disapointment. But this set up I've found recently is allowing me to hone my skills.

Working is good, finally starting to live off what I earn again instead of off my savings is awesome. I'm still tossing around the idea of moving to China to teach english for the rest of the year. Been watching movies- "Hors de Prix" with Audrey Tattou was great! And I finally saw 300, got a kick out of that film (Gerard Buttler be looking fiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnne). Also been learning a lot of fiddle tunes to expand my busking repetoire, though I haven't been busking in a while... Started foot stomping along with my playing... video forthcoming. Oo also been swaping english for spanish with my mexican friend Andrea! Here we are trying to look awkward:


Oh one last thing. That job I wrote about in the last post, the one with the screaming boss, there was one really good thing that came out of it. I left the restaurant with a couple of chefs and told them how I'd really blown the audition, they were all like "noooo your so nice!!!" and one, this guy Frank, offered to take me around to a bunch of restaurants to see if they were hiring. He'd spent seven years living in the states so we talked a lot about America while distributing my resumé. We ended up at a casino which is right next to this giant park with a free zoo in it, he won 40 bucks at the slot machines! We had a riot. He bought me a giant cotton candy!!!!!