I guess it’s been nearly two weeks since I last wrote something here. Why you might ask? It’s not that I have exams or other commitments taking up my time, I suppose it’s just because I don’t have much to report.

Alas, it’s the end of another month and again I question where the time has gone. It hasn’t been the most spectacular of months, mostly working and trying to sort some things out back home. In fact, I’m still looking for somewhere to live when I get back home in September so if you can help with that then you’d be a rockstar.

So what’s been happening over the past two weeks? A couple of Sundays ago I rented the incredibly touristy Go-Car. It’s basically just a scooter chassis with a fiberglass shell over the top, and has room for two passengers. It looks kinda like a side car on a motorbike from days gone by. It was fun, but not very powerful. It gets up to about 30mph and you can feel every bump on the road. I really wanted to take it up Telegraph Hill to Coit Tower, but wasn’t sure if it would make the climb. To it’s credit, it did ok and we made it!

The only down side of this little car is that it’s really expensive. It cost me $100 for 2 hours, which is a lot more than renting a real car for a whole day. Worst of all, when I mentioned it at work I found out that I could have gotten it for free if I had mentioned that I worked for a tourism company. Oh well, maybe I’ll do it again some time.

Last week Valerie’s parents came to visit for her graduation. It was a good week for Valerie, she got an internship at the prestigious Westin St Francis hotel on Union Square as a manager (congrats by the way) and then her parents arrived. Her parents are great, very funny and don’t speak hardly any English between them. Still, I’ve had to exercise the old French GCSE lingo which seems to be getting me by so far. ‘Salut, enchante, ca va…’. They’ve been very kind taking me out for dinner and ice creams. On Tuesday they left for a short 3 day trip to Las Vegas and Bryce Canyon with Valerie. They also bought a video camera for the graduation which they are planning on leaving with us, so I may be able to shoot some video of my last few months here.

Tomorrow my friend Gaelle leaves to go back home to France. I will really miss her, she’s one of the few French people that lives in my building that are actually friendly. The rest of them seem to stick to a little clique. Late last year she moved to Berkeley for college and I didn’t get to see her as much as before. Sad that I may never see her again after tomorrow, so tonight she invited me and some people out for dinner to say goodbye.

My boss is in Ireland at the moment on a month-long trip to Europe. He’s been interviewing some people at Jordanstown about coming out here to take over from me when I go.

Oh, just one more thing - check out mapjack.com. It’s like Google Street View, except with hi-res photos. They’ve got the whole of San Francisco covered, Lake Tahoe and a few other places. Check out some cool places in SF, search for Fort Point, Coit Tower or Golden Gate Bridge. You can actually cross the bridge in hi-res, it’s awesome. My house is on there too - 580 O’Farrell.

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