
So that was today. Yesterday I met up with all the assistants in my department, Créteil, and they talked to us a lot about paperwork and visas and health care and pretty much anything else you could imagine. The visa system that France uses to complicate everyone's lives is just now changing. So a lot of the time the ladies that were trying to help us wound up just saying, "umm...we'll check on that and get back to you." Which...I don't really know if they even have our email addresses, so it may have just been a diversionary tactic. It worked at any rate.
We were all in this big auditorium mixed with first and second year assistants. When someone from the audience raised a hand, they either asked a question, or, using their past year's experience, corrected or amended what the ladies leading the program said. This was helpful sometimes. Sometimes it was just annoying. Especially because there was that girl that spoke about 50 times and each time started out saying, "Last year when I was an assistant, we did this..." So that was awesome. What was funny though was that there was this little old lady that had the wireless mic that she was supposed to give to people who were asking questions so everyone could hear them. Unfortunately though the auditorium was so big she could only reach the students in time to stick the mic in their face and have them say "Thanks." It was pretty funny actually.
I had been going back and forth on the decision between taking two different apartments for the past few days. Everything has been moving really fast since then. I finally decided to spend a little more money and be in the 7th arrondisement than not spending as much and being waaaayyy up north in the city. I'm very happy with this decision. And after having taking such pains to arrive at it, I decided to celebrate a little so I made chicken nuggets with "french fries" for dinner. And I bought heinz ketchup and it was wonderful. I've been craving french fries lately, actually. Rather than buy a gallon of fries though, I found a smaller box of like little potato cubes that tasted just like teeny tiny french fries. Then of course we had some wine and cheese with baguette afterwards. Il faut. At any rate, it was delicious and we really enjoyed eating the little buggers. The ketchup especially hit the spot for me.
I'm going back to school tomorrow to meet some more classes and teachers. But I have to go first to meet the guy from the realtor and give him thousands and thousands of euro, lol. Then! I have to go and meet the person from whom I'm renting the property for the key. Hopefully that works out, haha. I don't quite have the full amount to give the guy in the morning because I can only take out so much from the ATMs per day. So hopefully he'll be fine with that. Wish me luck!
A demain!
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