Apartment-Hunting Etc.

Jenny and I are still trying to find a place, which is discouraging because we have spent the last two and a half weeks living in other people's homes and moving back and forth between them. Everyone has been SO nice letting us stay with them and taking care of us, but it's hard not having a space of your own (not to mention it feels like we are becoming more and more of a burden on our gracious hosts).

We have looked at seven or eight different places so far. We are currently waiting to hear back from an agency about a house that we would be sharing with another one of the lectrisses (I don't know if that's how you spell it) who Jenny works with, but there is a lot of paperwork to deal with first and we aren't really sure about it. The other issue with that place is that there is not a stick of furniture (not even a refrigerator) and there are no doors on the bedrooms, which would be nice to have if there are going to be three different people living there. But at this point, we just want to have a definite place, so we're willing to deal with those things.

Sorry if this post is a downer, it's just getting discouraging not having a place to stay of our own. It's also frustrating because, since I don't speak French, I can't really help with the apartment search much, even though I have nothing I need to do all day while Jenny and Deirdre (the girl we're looking for a place with) are teaching. Also I miss everybody back home! Another reason I'm looking forward to having our own place is when we have one we can get this thing where you pay for internet and phone together and you get free calls to landlines anywhere in the world, so it will be easier to talk to a lot of people at home. Hopefully everything with this house will work out, and we can move in within the next week or two.

Aside from apartment-searching, Jenny has been busy with teaching and I have been continuing my exploration of Lille. And this past Sunday, Liliane and Francois (Claire's parents) took us to a place in Belgium where we went on a tour of some big caves, which was cool.