So, I arrived last night. After 20€ in a taxi, and ten minutes banging on a door I finally got into my apartment. It's...small.
Considering I am also very small (read short), everything is about a foot higher than my reach and even hanging up my frocks was a bit of a struggle . Grr at France being designed for 6 foot-ers!
I got lost on the RER because it has the most confusing signage ever and it took me a full 90 minutes for what should have been a 40 minute journey.
Eventually though, I did manage to find the right person in the university to speak to and finally found out how to register for my courses. I just need to pick ten of them now and make sure they all work in a coherent and non-clashing timetable. This is my job for this evening.
Luckily there is a Carrefour supermarket and a boulongerie at the end of my road. The baguettes are to die for-I don't think I've ever had bread this good- and only 1€ too. Yay!
I'm gonna use my time in France to cook properly, and cook well; hopefully expanding my repertoire. As I had a big lunch around the uni campus today, dinner tonight will be baked apples with raisins and ginger. Yummy, and low fat, especially as I forgot to buy any butter.
Tomorrow is further sorting out of the formalities. Organising my courses, paying rent, getting my rental agreement so that I can open a bank account, and hopefully finding somewhere that I can buy a sim card that'll work with a T mobile phone.
Hey,
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your semester abroad, i'm also in France atm but i'm here for the entire academic year. Let me know how you get on with CAF, I tried to apply for it once before, when I was living in uni halls,and they sent me a letter asking for a load of paperwork that dorsnt even exist. In december I movd into a shared apartment, and I was talking to my landlord about my failed CAF application, and how I wasn't that bothered about getting it, but then he said you do realise you can probably get about €150 a month right? So then I went straight to the CAF office and reapplied in Feb. Hope to see a few more blog posts soon! Charlie