A Good Week

Weeks to Departure: 3.

Pete visited this week, so I felt bad spending half the time he was here on the phone or internet dealing with moving business. But I finally had success in making arrangements, and as the cliché goes: when it rains, it pours.

My mom has a meeting in Frankfurt, Germany starting the 18th so I thought, instead of flying to France, I'll fly to Germany and vacation with my mom, then get to France from there by train.  It should be easy.  The train would have cost $200-$300, and taken about 23 hours and 3 transfers, no thank you.  Flying wasn't much better, the only flights from Frankfurt to Marseille under $600 took at least 7 hours, due to long stopovers, and got me into Marseille around 11pm, which wasn't too appealing either.  After days of looking for alternatives and finding none, I finally realized that thanks to Star Alliance, I could frequent flyer my way between the two cities.  (Phew.)

In only a few hours on the phone, I got out of two phone contracts without a fee (yay!), and most of the rest of my week was devoted to looking for an affordable appartment in one of the trendiest and most expensive towns in the south of France. On the day of Pete's departure, I finally got an email from someone at the main school I'll be working at. They have a place for me to stay at the town highschool. I don't hve any idea what its like, but it will do temporarily at least.  Guess I should ahve spent more time with Pete, and just let things fall into place.  
If only that were my way.