The stagiaire gets a vacation :)

The day has come. I am leaving for Forte today with Nathalie. I cannot wait. It is going to be a perfect 5 days of heaven and relaxation. Everyone I know is already there it seems, from the reporter messages I got from my mother who arrived first on Sunday. This is the first time we have all arrived at different times and are leaving at different times. My mom explained how weird it was arriving without us - everyone didn't get it - where is Simon and Erin was the ongoing question... My dad decided to spend one more night with me and arrived monday mid day and not I'm arriving today with Nathalie and we are staying till Monday evening. Note: typically stagiares do not get vacations - however when your moms good friend is the boss and you are taking her on vacation - exceptions can be made. Its all about connections...

This week at work was rather quiet. I was shocked because I thought that it would continue being as busy and stressful as it was the week Cyril was leaving, however I was completely wrong. When August begins, Paris becomes DESERTED and by deserted you can really feel it. All the Parisians leave Paris and head elsewhere for vacation. You feel the Metro's are less busy, the clubs, the bars, etc. Thomas and Gigi took their vacation during this time and now Nat and I are. This means that the phones ringing and the number of emails you receive typically decreases drastically because the majority of your clients are on vacation. The reason the week Cyril left was so busy was because all the clients who were leaving on vacation had procrastinated and needed something VITE FAIT so came to us at the last possible moment - ex: Longbox Dutronc. There was a lot of rigoler-ing done this week - it was truly WONDERFUL! I missed it. Bandai was still working, so that meant more Power Ranger packs, but other than that there wasn't much to do. I feel much better leaving Emilie and JP alone for these 5 days.

Off to the beach...