End of my parents' visit

APARTMENT PHOTOS and photos from this post:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/76555621@N02/sets/72157631601815095/

Monday, September 17^th

Picked up the last few things for my apartment and worked at getting more set up.

Tuesday, September 18^th

My parents and I did a practice run of my route to work and then to NYU.  We had a little trouble locating the high school where I’ll be working, but we managed after a while.  I’ll be working at Lycée Flora Tristan in Noisy-le-Grand; it’s a technical school.  I’m hoping to find out more about my position as September finishes wrapping up.

As we were by my graduate school, we thought we’d take the 5 or so minute walk over to see the Eiffel Tower.  It was gorgeous.  After snapping a few shots and strolling along, we headed to dinner in the 14^th arrondissement at Café d’Enfer – a very delicious restaurant where I treated myself before returning home back in April.

The new thing of the day was the “Mailbox ORDEAL.”  I had put my name on my mail box, but it had been removed, so I put it up to the side (instead of over the previous resident’s name) and put in a note to ask if it was a shared mail box.  I will tell you – IT IS NOT.  I had a very angry sounding phone message from the owner of said mail box about me having access to HER box.  She then proceeded to call me 7 times in the next 2 hours (during dinner at a restaurant and on the metro for me).  I called her back when I returned here and it turns out she lives two doors down and is, in fact, nice.  She is very firm in her opinions and was able to give me a lot of helpful directions as she is one of the people in charge of the apartment building itself.  She was livid with the agency and not (thankfully) with me.  She talked to me for a good 30 or so minutes and it has taken me many days to sort out the mailbox issue, but as of Thursday (a few days ahead of this post) it was sorted out.

Wednesday, September 19^th

I started the process of moving my bank account from Freyming- Merlebach to Paris since the branches of one bank do not share info and you must have one where you are living..

My parents and I spent the afternoon strolling over to the Latin Quarter to see the Pantheon and the Luxembourg gardens.

Thursday – I escorted my parents to the RER B for the trip home before my Graduate Orientation in the afternoon!