The other half speaketh again...

Time of month again. Terrible. I'm too much of a blogger but tucked in bed with a hot water bottle and the lap top (thanks to a loving husband who fussed about me for the day), this seems like a nice thing to do.

We are now 7 hours behind you guys coz of daylight saving. It's turned a little colder and most folks here are walking around with big winter coats, fur and all on the streets. Then when we all get into the metro, everybody starts unzipping or taking off layers coz it's just too warm. We've not been out much except when we need to run errands, meet people or go down to Genesis (church centre at Rue Rivoli at Chatelet) for evening meetings or practices. It's too cold, and too much trouble to stack layers on ourselves, just for walks.

Other than that, we are doing ok. Life seems to be settling down a lot more for us. We've made many more friends, and I am now having french conversation classes with Tina, an American girl living in Paris and KW is having his with Ben, a France-born Canadian guy who came by Singapore when we were back the last time. So i think we might end up with different accents! Ha. Other than that, we are mostly busy with some work, lots of church stuff, a bit of web design stuff (KW), some dance (me) and minimal housework (both of us). Cooking doesn't count. I love cooking.

We have 3 neighbors in our building (Yup, small building, we are on second floor and that's the top floor already). Across us is a lady living on her own. Met her once or twice. Quite fierce looking but i think she is the loud, look fierce but quite nice type. Oh, she's the Juliet we talked about in our earlier blog in summer this year, the one who slammed the window on Romeo hanging at the balcony. Then below us is an old lady who lives with her son (who is never around). I think he works in Japan or something. She speaks only French and is quite friendly. She's the one who got sent to the hospital in the middle of the night when we first arrived here coz she fell and was alone.Now, someone comes in every meal time to check on her. Opp her is another lady who also lives on her own. Very quiet lady, we met couple of times in summer as well.

Nowadays, it's quiet everywhere coz everyone's windows are closed to keep the cold out. So it's really quiet here, great for thinking and doing stuff, except for the occasional outburst from KW, "Squad 9, Squad 9, arti in, get out of there... arti in, arti in, get out of there". Other than that, it's cool.

Someone told us today that tickets back home to Singapore during the Christmas season are a minimum of $2000+++!! per person!!! The cheapest are Thai, also about $2000, but they are sold out. Good thing we are hoping to get home a little earlier so i think w can still get cheaper tix. Our last engagement here is 21 Nov so still can make it, i think. Worse case, take Emirates lor. Transit 2 stops...faint...i have to brace myself....

Jo