Reunion à Marseille

So, I named my last post "Frankfurt Slideshow" and then, when there were slideshow problems, forgot to change it. Hopefully a simplified version will come soon. I'm still working on getting internet at my apartment, but for most of this week I'm staying in Marseille, and the hotel has wifi.

I was sent an email, probably on friday last week, that I didn't read until yesterday. It was a schedule for the orientation in Marseille that starts tomorrow. They expect most people (including me) to go back and forth from their town to Marseille for the orientation. Some people from the boonies in the Alps are givin a hotel room for three nights. I got a hotel room for one night, the minimum, despite the fact that the bus schedule to my town makes the schedules of the other days impossible, whereas some people from Avignon and Arles (the closest cities to me, and where I have to change from bus to train) got two nights in a hotel when they could very well go back and forth. So, since its impossible for me to get to Marseille by 9am tomorrow because there is no bus early enough into Avignon, I had to get a room for myself tonight. However, I sent a plea to the administration and they got me a room for tomorrow night as well as Wednesday. Depending on the schedule I may have to pay for another room Thursday. But I don't know because under 'Friday' my personal schedule says: individual activity, see your personal schedule. Also because my schedule and the appointment sheet for my extrêmement important doctor's appointment conflict on what day it is.

French Bureaucrats (the original bureaucrats): blending extra hassle with incompetence.