Bleh I'm sick:(

Welp, it's official, I have a cold. I woke up this morning and felt like my throat was the size of a watermelon. But thankfully, the tylenol cold medicine I packed is working its magic... and I can only hope I'll be better by this weekend! (There's an English assistant picnic on Saturday at a big park in Lyon). It would be even cooler if I was magically better by tomorrow, my first real day of work (more meetings... so not really real work, but closer).

I did manage to make my way to a SNCF ticket booth to buy myself a carte 12-25, a youth pass costing 50 euros, but cutting all train ticket prices in half, woohoo! I started looking online today for my train ticket to Paris. I'm picking Maggie and company up from the airport there at the end of October (I have a week vacation right after I work 3 full weeks, nice!). Instead of it costing me 120 euros, it will only cost me 60 euros:)

I asked the woman at the SNCF site if she could "recharge" my monthly Lyon metro pass (or put money on my card)... which she could not. So I had to go a different station, for a different ticket booth for metro tickets. Of course, as it is the day before October 1st, I was not the only one getting in line to put money on my telecity pass. Fortunately, there was a patisserie in the station, so before I got in line, I got myself a little snack, something new- a chausson citron (or a lemon bootee... aka a lemon turnover). It was delish. And it made me smile on the inside because I envisioned putting it on a little baby foot. A good way to kill 5 minutes of the 45 I waited in line...

Of course, the one day I didn't bring an umbrella (it wasn't supposed to rain), it started raining on my way back to the tram to go home. I decided to get off the tram and stop at the mall to buy myself a jacket with a hood. I found a store with tons of discounts (kiabi). France mandates sales twice a year in July and January, so there aren't always clothing stores with a sale rack. But this whole store was like a sale rack! I found a cute little hooded jacket (Victor says I look like Madeline with it on), a new sweater and a turtle neck. Can you tell I've been cold?

Currently, I'm waiting on my oven that was supposed to show today. I waaas supposed to call and confirm a meeting time, but the phone number I was given didn't work... so I waited all afternoon just in case. Not very exciting, but I probably should be laying low anyway with my cold. Going to go watch a movie and drink something warm!

Hope you're all doing well! Reste Cool:)

ps I will eventually get around to finding a post office, so if you want a postcard, give me your address!