Anyway, today's agenda was to get a French phone number, which I did and mostly in French. The problem is that apparently my accent is pretty good so as soon as I open my mouth and say anything, they assume that I'm fluent and start talking a mile a minute leaving me completely lost. But then I'm flattered that they think I can understand everything so I tend to nod and smile instead of revealing my lack of understanding. This works great until I get asked a question... Anyway, so I have a French phone number that I can e-mail those of you who want to call me, but I don't have voice mail capabilities so I can't get messages and it's really not cheap to call anywhere since I didn't sign up for a plan and am just going to pay as I go for now. Not ideal, but it was the only thing I could do without having an address and a bank account and I need a phone in order to get both of those things. Everything with housing is a big catch-22 here. Ugh.
So that was relatively painless. Then Rachel and I wandered around the city for a bit, stocked up on some food, and are now attempting to tackle the housing dilemma. Not quite as painless... Wish me luck!
Emily: I am so happy you have a Blog and I have been following your journaling which is terrific. I am so glad you are not only fluent in French but that you have such a great attitude about discovering new places and having fun learning more about the French. Beazie and Ruth and Joe and Frank would be so proud of you.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe you are going to be gone 9 months. That is such a long time and you are so brave. Be careful of the Frenchmen and always look behind you when walking at night. You are such a beautiful girl. I love you. Keep me posted because you make me feel happy while going through such a difficult time as you know.
Send me your phone number on next blog.
Good luck with the apartment hunting and the meeting with the Frenchies demain. Get some rest hopefully. Love always, dom
ReplyDeleteFelicitations - tu es arrivee en bonne forme! Manges une crepe pour moi. Dis bonjour a M.C. et Regis. Je t'embrasse tres fort - Jeanine (et Brian aussi)
ReplyDeleteWhat's with the Yankees? Well they did just sweep the red sox and clinch heir sixteenth AL east title...
ReplyDeleteAlso, I must point out, that unlike the boorishly rabid and intolerant red sox fans, the cosmopolitan and confident yankees fans might make better cultural ambassadors. But I bet the three people you saw wearing yanks gear weren't even fans. As a global brand from a world class city, a yankees cap is a display of cultural capital in and of itself. Everybody likes a winner!
--just twitting you for your yankee-phobic post. Apparantly, you can take the girl out of New England, but...
Haha...Glad your safe and enjoying France! I'm jealous!