Vacation from HELL

Ok...so its about time huh? First of All I would really like to take the time to apologize to everyone who was sort of left hanging. I feel like I was walking through an endless tunnel that was spinning around me and all I could really focus on was putting one foot in front of the other.
As I mentione before, it really was hell living with that last family. I have come to a few conclusions of why it turned the way it did. My biggest conclusion however that I would talk about is the fact that they were over the top routine planners, and I am DEFINETLY not. I mean, I think its important to plan up to a certain extent, but being easy going just didnt seem to work there.
Now to tell you about the vacation or work week I should say.

Over Christmas and New Years I spent from the 26th to the 3rd up in the mountains, stuck in a cabin watching a rambunctious 2 year old. How fun is that? We couldnt really walk anywhere because we were so high up on the mountain that when I would walk to the bottom with her I would have to carry her back up...(did this twice...that was enough..). By the time the family would get back it was almost dark and I had absolutely NO where to go. I hated spending time with the family because I felt like my EVERY move was being watched and critizied somehow. Even if I would just sit somewhere I was asked what was going on with me. It really got to be too much.
As if that wasnt bad enough, I had planned a trip to go to my churchs snowcamp that was also taking place that whole week in the mountains about an hour away. I had been wanting to go to this camp from the first place because everyone talks about how awesome it is. Well since I was required to work, I asked if it would be ok to have the eve of the 31st off so I could celebrate New Years and would have to come back on the 1st BY 12pm so they could go skiing. *as if they werent skiing everyday already..
Well we figured that if I would actually have the 31st off then come back and work on the 1st it would be ok. Well when I got my 'schedule' it stated that I had the 31st off but had to be back by 9AM to work for them. WTF?? Anyway, well I had to do whatever they wanted so I set my plans to leave that evening and go out and come back (without any sleep...) just so I could let them go skiing. Well in preparing everything such as train schedules and such, the host mom GRIT decides that its not going to work and I need a different solution. She suggested I leave in the evening as planned and take the 1st off...I said well let me make a few phone calls to make sure its ok....she said she would talk to Uwe..
WELL: after speaking with my friend in the snowcamp about the 3rd time I made the plans and went with the host moms suggestion. I went over and told Uwe my new plan to have him give me a HUGE lecture about how a '23 year old girl should be able to plan properly' and that I have 'totally ruined there plans for the next day, etc, etc,etc.' WTF??? I WAS SOOOO MAD!! I took their suggestion to get slammed either way?! (this is just a small example of how I was ALWAYS made out to be wrong..)
Well I didnt apologize since it was their suggestion and went home for bed. In the morning when I came over to work, I had Uwe and grit at the table WITH the girls there when Uwe starts to get all passive agressive and complain about how the day was ruined, etc and their WHOLE vacation is basically ruined because I couldnt plan, etc....and he says that I can just 'leave' after breakfast because they dont need me that day (the 31st) or the 1st. And that the whole situation is now revolved around 'Rachel and Rachel gets what she wants and nobody else gets what they want.. and its just not fair' WOW....so I started to get upset and Grit bursts out and says, Rachel just tell us what you are thinking...I said I was really upset and that I was tired of always being in the wrong somehow, and then I was told that I was taking everything they were saying and making it negative against them. HAHAHA well that was it. I said I was leaving and left.......went straight to the snowcamp. Not even looking back.
Well anyway, I got back the next evening to have the host family all nice and pretending like nothing happened. Grit mentioned to me that they had a new girl coming in on that thursday (mind you that this was friday when she told me)..and that I would have to have everything packed by thurs and moved upstairs so the new girl could move in. This is when I suggested moving earlier...she said that we would figure something out and that she might need me that week to do some help while she cleaned. the VERY next day, I have to ride with Uwe and the girls back to the house in Anwil when he mentions that the new girl comes the NEXT day and not on thurs. GREAT...so he then says that I can even move out as early as that very night. Well how nice of them huh? But instead of taking it in such a negative way...I took it as an opportunity. When we got home, i started packing RIGHT away and moved out the very next day. It is funny because the lady who helped me, I guess Uwe told her he was 'surprised I was leaving so early' which was just a bunch of crap if you ask me...the goodbye was short and sweet and Uwe didnt even intend to say goodbye, he went into the kitchen!! I had to go back to the door and say goodbye to him.
I am very happy to say that I am no longer working for that family and that we all live and learn and I learned alot about myself and people in that situation. Now...on to my new family...new blog!!