Arriving in Paris pt 1.
Well as Im actually in Paris now so the blogs should be getting more frequent. Even though I still dont have the internet properly (i'm stealing off of somene else's wifi in the building) I'll try and update as much as I can.
well a lots been going on! first me and Sarah, got the Eurostar over here, collected the keys, met crazy jaqueline (the landlady's assistant) and heaved our extremely heavy bags up what seemed like the never ending 4 flights of stairs to the apartment. Then got a call from a random woman, had no idea it was actually Jaqueline who was waiting outside to take us on a wired road trip to get a sofa bed from Ikea! It was really nice of her to take up but it took us a while to figure out where we were even going!
So we picked up a bed, and headed back with Jaqueline rambling about squirrels and healthy food and playing opera really loudly and by the time we got hope we were too tired to go out (we'd had to get up at 4am to get the train) so just hung out in the apartment the first night.
Second day- so the next day we headed out, did a bit of food shopping and bought an internet box but couldn't get it set up properly (and still havent sorted it!) and in the evening we went out for a really lovely meal near Notre Dame and there was this cute jazz band playing on one of the bridges with a legend of an old woman who had been dancing to the music for like 3 hours- what a trooper!
Sarah went home the next morning so I explored the are around the apartment, bought a french mobile and went to open my new bank account only to get all the way there and be told that the director was on holiday so they couldn't open it for another few days even thought I booked the appointment a month in advance.
They managed to book me in at another branch though so its all sorted now.
The rest of the time I just did some more exploring and surprised myself by managing to set up the gas and electricity bills. The gas man cane come for another two weeks though so I cant cook anything on the hob so have just been having bread and cheese a lot lol.
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