I'm two and a half weeks from D-Day! That is, departure day with mom! Everything is all set, the flights booked, visa procured, and HOUSING FOUND! In what can only be described as a miracle, a nice French girl emailed a bunch of us about her apartment in the center of town, and she picked me as a roommate! We had to girl-flirt for a while first: send sweet emails, have a skype date for about an hour one afternoon, but it all worked out! She lives less than a kilometer from the beautiful Parc Jouvet and the center of town. The apartment is the second floor of an old home that has been renovated. It's fully furnished, has internet, cable, a dishwasher, a washing machine, and a cleaning lady that comes once a week! I've attached a picture below of what I think my house is, as best as I can tell using Google Earth.
The best part of the deal is Cloé herself who is 27 and does marketing and HR for a gourmet restaurant in town called Maison Pic. Her whole family is from Valence, she studied in Aix for a Year where I went with Vandy, she did an internship in America, and she seems very sweet and helpful. She has a car and she's already offered to drive me around. She's also going to sublet the apartment to a girl who is 29 and has a masters in teaching! I'll be the baby of the group, and I think that this will provide me with many benefits.
The next few weeks are going to be filled with all sorts of little errands to get me ready to leave and be a teacher. Today sweet Minor met with me for a couple of hours to give me pointers about teaching English to elementary school students. Thank goodness for those Peabody girls! I also want to get busy planning Mom and my week and a half long jaunt together in the south of France!
My house
Parc Jouvet
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