Apartment success!!!

So I know I already rambled on about this apartment yesterday, but we went and met with the landlady, Audrey, this morning for two hours to go over the lease and any questions we had and to take a little tour of the neighborhood, and it's all final and set! We didn't sign the actual lease today because Audrey has to finish drafting it, but we each signed a little paper verifying our verbal agreement to rent the apartment, so we'll be moving in on the 13th of October at the latest. Yay!!!!!! I'll post the address on here next week so you can all start writing to me so I'll have piles of mail waiting for me when I move in... :)

The best part about this morning is that we did it all in French! And I actually understood most of what Audrey was saying, which is kind of a miracle since we were talking about everything from security deposits to where to take the trash to how to work the TV and the stove. I think I was able to understand her more easily than other people I've talked to here because she's a speech therapist for children and really enunciates her words. Or else it's just because I was "on" today. Whatever. I'm not going to question my random ability to actually understand French--it was so exciting!

That's basically the only really productive thing I did today though... Well, that's not entirely true. I called my other school this morning and finally reached someone--an English teacher named Paul (a name I generally like okay but that really sounds so much better in French!). I'm going to meet the teachers there Thursday afternoon, but I guess they're okay with me not starting until Monday too. And I went to the bank after seeing Audrey and set up an appointment to open an account on Friday morning so fingers crossed that goes smoothly and quickly!

Otherwise, not much. Rachel and I celebrated getting the apartment by going to lunch at this adorable sit-down creperie. I had a delicious salad, a galette with some sort of tomato sauce and some blue cheese-esque sauce that was amazing, and then, of course, my standard nutella-banana crepe. I really need to broaden my horizons a little bit though and try OTHER crepes.

I'm off to meet the woman who needs a babysitter in a bit and then to Marie-Christine and Régis's house for dinner. Hopefully my out-of-nowhere French speaking ability won't fail me tonight!