14.02.07
14.02.07
At the moment my life seems to be getting more and more chaotic rather than more settled. Every day I seem to find out another thing not totally to my liking. I am also learning that even good people definitely have downsides. At the moment I’m living in a French lady’s house who is called Anne. She’s very nice (but VERY French) but….. it can be sometimes a case of Anne giveth and Anne taketh away again.
She is lovely though, she makes me tea for when I get home cos she knows that’s what I’m craving (properly craving too) and is very chilled. She is good fun to talk to and impetuously generous. I’m also not quite sure how much she is charging me for this week in rent (it changed, went up and down), not very much I think.
On Saturday I’m moving into another flat. This flat is actually owned by her. It’s the first time she’s rented anywhere out (good or bad thing I’m not totally sure) and is feeling her way. The rent is 280 euros which is very good for central Toulouse. They’re renting it so cheap because her parents in law are going to be moving in there at the beginning of July. So we will be moving out. However, all prices are relative because with a monthly income of 350 its not cheap for me. I will be living with and Italien girl (who apparently is already making problems) and a French girl (who is going on holiday as soon as I move in but otherwise all I really know about her is that she is sympa with a forceful personality!
The french girl is also currently depriving me of my bed. The flat was previously unfurnished. So 3 mattresses were being brought in. We took one down last weekend. One was meant to be coming on Monday (12.02) , actually coming next Monday(19.02), and the one I WAS sleeping on. I was going to have that one, goodness knows what I’m getting now. However, she got it because she is very tall and wont fit on the others. So, I have no bed. Anne told me to sleep in her bed and she’s have the sofa but the thing is I have to get up at 6:30 at the moment and would just disturb her for an hour so I’m sleeping on the sofa which is actually fine but I would prefer a bed.
I have to move in on Saturday, hopefully pm cos I will have trouble if I have to pack my stuff Friday night when I get home at 6:50 after work. I found this flat sort of by accident cos I didn’t know she had another flat and at the time it was full. However the guy who was meant to be moving in didn’t show when he was meant to for the viewing and as a consequence she said no to him. She then mentioned it to me, we went and had a look round and I thought great! When I was looking round stuff last week I went to the CAF (caisse aide familiale or something) where I found out I’m entitled to social security cos I’m a poor student. Great! So I was enchanted by the location of the flat and by its size. And I thought 280, great and with CAF I get even more off! So I can afford to enjoy my time here (when I am not at work) more. So I told her I wanted the flat and told everyone else I’d looked at that I didn’t want theirs, then I started discovering the imperfections.
Today I found out that it doesn’t have internet. Also doesn’t have a phoneline. Great. The Italian will be putting in the internet but first she needs a chequebook cos the set up etc has to be done by cheque. I thought that was sorted on Monday, count forward ten days and I would have internet a couple of days after I move in. I NEED internet, it was always THE one requirement (apart from proximity to work) that I insisted everywhere I looked at and visited. Her heart’s in the right place but a leeetle airy fairy. At the moment for example there is no phone or internet in the flat. Dunno why. This is a problem for me cos I need to be able to be contacted this evening about financial things. This would not normally be a problem as she has in fact got 2 phone lines. One she explained to me you ring out on and its free to landlines and the other one is only used for receiving calls. The one you use to ring cannot receive calls. I worked out the reason why is that one is dsl and connected to the internet and the other is normal landline. So tonight no internet and therefore no making phone calls. As two phone lines, two different numbers, the other one which no one has. I could have received them though if only she hadn’t given the phone away. Another lot of charity cases, I’m one of many it seems, 4 guys from Belgium I thing or Holland who cant speak French very well who she has been helping. They’re having problems with their internet at the moment so she leant them the phone so that they can ring up technical assistance. Soooo, no phone for us
I also broke my camera, or it broke, I’m not sure which. Which is why there are no photos of everything. The weather is shit at the moment anyway, another factor to improve my mood, I’m inside all day and the times I am outside I am waiting for buses in the dark and it is either cold or raining or windy. Great.
I am not in the greatest of moods today but this has been slowly building this week. Mainly it has to do with the fact that I get up at 6:30, travel and hour and a half to work, work (thank God it is only 9-5!) sitting ALL day which I hate, I get restless at the best of times, I swear I can feel my bottom actually inflating as I sit there, take LONGER to get home, get home just before 7, eat, and then practically bed time. I know I have no right to complain as its not that long a day, not that long a commute, not for very long at all and totally my own fault as I decided I wanted to see what the real world was like. It sucks by the way for anyone reading this who is still a student. Properly sucks. Cant really see many advantages to it. No exams but just a different pressure. I wanted to see how hard it was to get a job (very) what it was like living in the big bad world (not fun and at the start quite lonely) This is only the beginning I know and the beginning anywhere is hard, it sucks for about the first month and then gets easier, by the end I will love this place I know but I just want it to be March, or even April so I have already settled in.
Also I love coming in the door and being confronted by new things that have happened. Tonight, no phone, last night no bed, Monday night something else. Maybe tomorrow night I’ll come home and find that I don’t have a flat to move into any more.
I’m going to go to bed now. I'll be in a better mood in the morning.
At the moment my life seems to be getting more and more chaotic rather than more settled. Every day I seem to find out another thing not totally to my liking. I am also learning that even good people definitely have downsides. At the moment I’m living in a French lady’s house who is called Anne. She’s very nice (but VERY French) but….. it can be sometimes a case of Anne giveth and Anne taketh away again.
She is lovely though, she makes me tea for when I get home cos she knows that’s what I’m craving (properly craving too) and is very chilled. She is good fun to talk to and impetuously generous. I’m also not quite sure how much she is charging me for this week in rent (it changed, went up and down), not very much I think.
On Saturday I’m moving into another flat. This flat is actually owned by her. It’s the first time she’s rented anywhere out (good or bad thing I’m not totally sure) and is feeling her way. The rent is 280 euros which is very good for central Toulouse. They’re renting it so cheap because her parents in law are going to be moving in there at the beginning of July. So we will be moving out. However, all prices are relative because with a monthly income of 350 its not cheap for me. I will be living with and Italien girl (who apparently is already making problems) and a French girl (who is going on holiday as soon as I move in but otherwise all I really know about her is that she is sympa with a forceful personality!
The french girl is also currently depriving me of my bed. The flat was previously unfurnished. So 3 mattresses were being brought in. We took one down last weekend. One was meant to be coming on Monday (12.02) , actually coming next Monday(19.02), and the one I WAS sleeping on. I was going to have that one, goodness knows what I’m getting now. However, she got it because she is very tall and wont fit on the others. So, I have no bed. Anne told me to sleep in her bed and she’s have the sofa but the thing is I have to get up at 6:30 at the moment and would just disturb her for an hour so I’m sleeping on the sofa which is actually fine but I would prefer a bed.
I have to move in on Saturday, hopefully pm cos I will have trouble if I have to pack my stuff Friday night when I get home at 6:50 after work. I found this flat sort of by accident cos I didn’t know she had another flat and at the time it was full. However the guy who was meant to be moving in didn’t show when he was meant to for the viewing and as a consequence she said no to him. She then mentioned it to me, we went and had a look round and I thought great! When I was looking round stuff last week I went to the CAF (caisse aide familiale or something) where I found out I’m entitled to social security cos I’m a poor student. Great! So I was enchanted by the location of the flat and by its size. And I thought 280, great and with CAF I get even more off! So I can afford to enjoy my time here (when I am not at work) more. So I told her I wanted the flat and told everyone else I’d looked at that I didn’t want theirs, then I started discovering the imperfections.
Today I found out that it doesn’t have internet. Also doesn’t have a phoneline. Great. The Italian will be putting in the internet but first she needs a chequebook cos the set up etc has to be done by cheque. I thought that was sorted on Monday, count forward ten days and I would have internet a couple of days after I move in. I NEED internet, it was always THE one requirement (apart from proximity to work) that I insisted everywhere I looked at and visited. Her heart’s in the right place but a leeetle airy fairy. At the moment for example there is no phone or internet in the flat. Dunno why. This is a problem for me cos I need to be able to be contacted this evening about financial things. This would not normally be a problem as she has in fact got 2 phone lines. One she explained to me you ring out on and its free to landlines and the other one is only used for receiving calls. The one you use to ring cannot receive calls. I worked out the reason why is that one is dsl and connected to the internet and the other is normal landline. So tonight no internet and therefore no making phone calls. As two phone lines, two different numbers, the other one which no one has. I could have received them though if only she hadn’t given the phone away. Another lot of charity cases, I’m one of many it seems, 4 guys from Belgium I thing or Holland who cant speak French very well who she has been helping. They’re having problems with their internet at the moment so she leant them the phone so that they can ring up technical assistance. Soooo, no phone for us
I also broke my camera, or it broke, I’m not sure which. Which is why there are no photos of everything. The weather is shit at the moment anyway, another factor to improve my mood, I’m inside all day and the times I am outside I am waiting for buses in the dark and it is either cold or raining or windy. Great.
I am not in the greatest of moods today but this has been slowly building this week. Mainly it has to do with the fact that I get up at 6:30, travel and hour and a half to work, work (thank God it is only 9-5!) sitting ALL day which I hate, I get restless at the best of times, I swear I can feel my bottom actually inflating as I sit there, take LONGER to get home, get home just before 7, eat, and then practically bed time. I know I have no right to complain as its not that long a day, not that long a commute, not for very long at all and totally my own fault as I decided I wanted to see what the real world was like. It sucks by the way for anyone reading this who is still a student. Properly sucks. Cant really see many advantages to it. No exams but just a different pressure. I wanted to see how hard it was to get a job (very) what it was like living in the big bad world (not fun and at the start quite lonely) This is only the beginning I know and the beginning anywhere is hard, it sucks for about the first month and then gets easier, by the end I will love this place I know but I just want it to be March, or even April so I have already settled in.
Also I love coming in the door and being confronted by new things that have happened. Tonight, no phone, last night no bed, Monday night something else. Maybe tomorrow night I’ll come home and find that I don’t have a flat to move into any more.
I’m going to go to bed now. I'll be in a better mood in the morning.
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