Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Email 1 for those who saw missed it!


Dear family, friends, and just some of you I met along the way!
            As my first email out I would like to say… HIIIII! Some of you may already know the whole story and others only bits and pieces! The whole story goes like this! (Let me note that there may be many spelling and grammar issues… sorry these were never my strong suit!) In June as most of you know I signed a contract with a family living a small village and everything was set to go! I went on a 4-week vacation and working adventure and was not really able to contact my family! In that time then mom was given a new job and one of the two boys was put into a really great Kindergarten… SOOO my services were no longer needed! After a class 5 brake down I re-upped my au pair site and set off to find another family! Three days later I found a great family and I am with them now! Two weeks after I found them and Skyped with them literally every night I packed up 125 pounds of luggage and clothing Brandon (my teddy bear) and I got on a plane for 13 hour flight to Munich Germany! 
I arrived here on August 10, 2012. We left the next day for Croatia and we were there for a week! It was seriously so amazingly beautiful! The water so clear and great! The weather was fabulous hot and sunny all week! Now I did not feel well the whole trip because I think I was going through some really bad culture shock! But we did go to some places with some really great meat!!! And I LOVE meat! Also on the trip we went out to dinner with a couple The Husband was totally awesome! He is completely Bavarian and totally awesome! He made me laugh so much and gave me some very wise advice… are you ready… he told me… “Natalie you say yes yes yes when you talk to Natalie you can not say yes! You must always say no!!! NO NO NO boys will be out and around and you must always say NO! Do you understand?!?!” HAHA Natalie and I laughed so hard! And then he told me again twice! Seriously I cannot wait to see him again!

            After the week was over and I finally got to my home! I had my first week of work! The Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday were a little easier because the kids had pony camp in the morning until 3 and so I didn’t have to really work hard until then! But in that time I cleaned the house and this is and will be my daily task! Vacuuming cleaning the kitchen and doing some laundry! And let me say… NO DRYER!!!! She told me that and I thought I was going to die! Then later that day I also learned that there is no microwave in the house!!! :O I thought I might die at the sound of that one! Then Thursday was my first whole day with the kids and I thought it went really well!

On Friday we left the house at 6 A.M. to hop on a train to Jena and it was so beautiful there! The old architecture seriously made me speechless!!! Natalie was there on business but me and the children had another agenda! We walked around and it was fun! Then I saw my first movie in German… Ice Age 4… hahah it was so funny to hear all the voices!!! We went home on Saturday. Getting home at 9:00 P.M. we went out to dinner to a very Bavarian restaurant. It was so late and I was so exhausted from the past two days so I was excited to sit in a semi quite restaurant and just eat!!!! BUT NOOOOO it was music night and when we walked in the drum line was playing and it was so loud! Then after 20 minutes of loud drumming they were finally done and I thought it was over… but once again I was wrong… The first Mexicans I had seen in 2 weeks and they were playing Mariachi Band music. Mom and I just started laughing because we were so tired and thought we were going to relax…  On Sunday I finally saw Munich and once again I was jaw dropped it’s so beautiful we went into this Catholic Church and it was picturesque!!!!!

Email one done! Week three started! Adventure is out there and I am going to experience it all!
Natalie Romo


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