May 2nd- 15th, 2011

On Monday I went with an other au pair group to a salsa lesson at Lucky Bar. Unfortunately they told us there that there won’t be a lesson, but luckily there were these good salsa dancers who thaught us some steps. Those of you who know me well enough know that it took me some time until I overcame my fear to start dancing… Anyways, after some beers and this embarrasing cheering of all the people from my table I finally accepted a dance-offer. But it was kind of an awkward feeling since everybody looked at me, because all the ladies from my table yelled „GO SIMONE“!!! But it was fun though! :D And later I accepted an other 2 dancing invitaions! :D

On Friday I went out with some girls and guys who we learnt to know the weekend before! It was really fun, but also a little sad, because I learnt that my friend Denise broke up her year. So I had the last time a playdate with her and her hostchild at the mall this Tuesday. I’ll really miss her! 

Then on Saturday I had to get up early, because I had to be at 10 a.m. at the Washington National Cathedral, because there was this AUSTRIAN FESTIVAL!! I saw the ad were they wrote and I quote: „The 2011 event showcasing Austria, one of Europe’s most beautiful countries. “ And I was like, I HAVE to see that!! But my plans got almost foiled, because I surprisingly had to work voluntary, because my visitors from Austria are here when I have my May meeting, so I had to help out at my LCC’s work (which counted as a meeting). But back to the Austrian festival…. I arrived there and the first thing I saw were people running around in their Dirndl!! And of course I had to take some pictures with them! I also asked them if they were from austria, but they cheated, because they were americans, except of this one lady who was from Germany.

Anyhow, I also saw the Austrian Embassy, were they had travel planners for Austria, maps from Vienna and so on.. and then this lady asked me if I would be interested to visit this beautiful country and I was like, I am from Austria and suddenly all this people around me started laughing..

There were also some booths with apple-strudel and bratwurst! :D but the rest of this stands wasn’t really austrian…

And then later, these people in their Dirndl, started dancing.. They were called „Alpine Dancers“. And they always said a few words before they started dancing, like „This is a very famous and popular dance in Austria,…“ And I was like, I never saw or heard of this dance in my life before, but I took some videos, so I can show you some when I am back, maybe you know some of this dances. ;-)

And then after that festival I had to go straight back to this voluntary work at the world bank. I’m telling u, it was soo annoying there!! First hey misspelled my visitor pass (Eck Simone), so I had to go back to this guy who didn’t get it what I meant. And then we had to prepare some stuff for this family event, like blowing up some baloons or prepare everything for the station sign in. And then suddenly all this people were standing in front of our booth asking questions over questions, but we didn’t know what to do, because nobody explained anything to us. So we tried as good as we could to put the kids in the activity group for which they signed in, but everything had to be correct, because there were only 10 kids supposed to be in one group. And then there were also some groups cancelled, so we had to find an other group were they fitted in. Anyhow..It was really exhausting and I was glad when i finally could go home (after 4 ½ hours work). And then I was like half an hour  at home and then I had to leave for an babysitter job, where I cared for an very active and lively 6 years old boy, but he is nice though.

Washington Cathedral

my new friends the "Alpine Dancers"

Alpine Dancers

 

working at the world bank

at Spot with Vici :D

Maeve and Eric at the mall

 

Who was in this helicopter... it landed in front of the white house and there were like 30 police cars..

baking Vanillekipferl with Maeve :D

Yesterday I was with Marika at the movies, we watched „Water for Elephants“. I am telling you, that was a really good movie!! It’s a very advisable one! :D