A month from now it’ll be the last day of my German class, and my last day as an au pair. That much I’m happy about, but I will be a little sad to leave Munich. Unlike almost all of my friends from Paris who left at the end of the school year, most of my friends from Munich intend to stay. At least I should have a well-attended goodbye party and places to stay when I come back and visit.

The next four days are going to be long. Julia’s daycare is closed so I’ll be home with her the whole day Thursday and Friday. Then it depends on when Beata gets back from Poland. If it’s before this weekend we’ll probably go to Allgäu, which means working through the weekend and coming back super late on Sunday and being tired for another week. Yay. But I shouldn’t complain too much about work, it’s not that bad. If I do have to work this next weekend I’ll get one day next week or the following weekend off, and then maybe I could take another day trip to somewhere in Bavaria. On Sunday I went to Augsburg with three other au pairs. Even thought the weather didn’t cooperate we had fun. We say the world’s oldest social settlement (http://www.fugger.de/) and some obnoxiously ornate churches. And since we were able to share one ticket, the whole trip only cost 7,50€.

I finally got paid on Monday (I was supposed to get paid May sixteenth). My 260€ were delivered with a promise to get paid on time the next month. We’ll see how that goes. I’m starting to adore Julia more and more. Her imitation of a rooster is literally the cutest thing I’ve ever heard. I also enjoy listening to her count, because she hasn’t yet figured out that numbers go in a particular order. (“One…seven…four…ten!”) It’ll be hard to say goodbye to that peanut. But after I do I might go to Paris for a week to get in a little more time with Ader before we don’t see each other again in person until maybe--cringe--December. And now that there is a Chipotle in Paris, one more week there just seems all the more appealing.

But if Ader’s going to be on a business trip that week then I’ll spend my days off visiting the parts of Germany I haven’t seen yet—Hamburg, Cologne, Essen and maybe Dortmund. When I get back I have a list of people I need to visit with, shows I need to catch up on, and things to eat. I’ve kind of given up hope on Rutgers. True, it would be way cheaper and closer to my friends and family, but I’ve gotten very used to the idea of the eternal summer in Miami.