It was such a random night, that I’ll nev-
doing that, or picking up the kids from school
er forget. Anyway since I discovered the
or doing the homework or that time when af-
house parties, I was out every weekend and I
ter they came back from Paris they just left all
had so many great nights that if I described
their luggage in the leaving room full of dirty
them all here I would create a book about it.
clothes for me to wash and iron them), I start-
But there’s one last story I want to tell. One day
ed to like wine (because they offered me some
the au pair mother invited me to go with her and
the first night for dinner and I didn’t want to
her workmates to a pub, after few weeks that I
say no), I started to at least try the food they
got there and after the mother went back to the
cooked because I didn’t want to be impolite and
house I stayed with them and I had so much fun,
also to cook a different food every day, I learned
we went to a nightclub where one of them got sick
to believe in myself more and to enjoy more
so he got thrown out and then we went to their
about social life and to be more independent.
house to smoke and chat until 10 in the morning. What I learned from being au pair is that doing the housework is actually fun (except when the father was at home because he was screaming at him question about everything like when I was
Thanks to all that I’m way happier now. n
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