I've had an extremely productive day! I got up early to do laundry and what a perfect day it was to be outside! I brought along a wedding magazine a friend sent me to read while I waited, so the time flew by, sitting with my fellow Saint-Priestians doing their laundry (a couple of old men).
I came back to my apartment to find a package received notification in my mailbox and lugged my wet clothes upstairs to hang on the wrack. Before going anywhere, I warmed up some leftovers, talked to my mom, and worked on the letters I need to send to the phone company and bank to officially state that I would like them to end my accounts. I got an email from Elise with a model for the SFR letter (for my neufbox) and she mentioned that I should have them close my account April 17 because it may take up to 10 days for it to actually happen.... and then for them to send me my box. So if I were to put April 28, I might not get my box in time.... and that would be a mess. So- I'm going to risk being without internet a few days before I come home. Oh well- I was able to go several weeks at the beginning without reliable internet.... hopefully I can last just a week and a half more. Perhaps the free wifi will play nice and work for me for a few days if I need it???
Anywho- I figured since I was having such a productive day... I might as well keep going and go pick up my package. I brought along my camera to take sun-shining pictures of Saint-Priest's "downtown" and was glad I did. The stupid post office, which has hours posted outside their building (and online... which I checked before leaving), had a piece of chart paper outside stating they would be closed between 13h-14h (1-2pm). My guess- they wanted an hour break in the afternoon sun! But of course I got there about 1:10.... so I decided I'd take my time walking around and pick up a few groceries. I took pictures of my neighborhood Carrefour Market- it has 2 whole rows of cheese... which I took a picture of to show you just how much the French really do love their cheese.
After my shopping trip, I walked back to the post office and took a few pictures around the main drag- the town hall, library, cinema, and post office are all connected (among other things in this stretch of 70's style architecture). It's definitely not the prettiest part of my little town, but it's right by my apartment and it's where I do a lot of errands... so I thought I'd show you!
I waited outside for a good 20 minutes with my bag of groceries... I probably could have taken them home and walked back in time, but I kept thinking they'd open up early. Nope- 5 minutes late actually, and of course the other hoards of people rushed inside. I didn't really mind because I knew I had nothing big to do later, so I waited in line with my package slip. When it was finally my turn, the lady scanned it and said, we don't have it yet, in fact (the French say en fait a lot- it's kind of like how we say "actually" or "as a matter of fact"). I thought well how can that be... I have a package received notification.... and they marked the box saying that I wasn't there to get the package..... the woman pointed to the date- March 24, or tomorrow. I left shaking my head.... I waited in line and fiddled around town to be told to come back tomorrow for a package that I got a notification for.... today. Well that's a new one.
Anyway- that was my day in a nutshell. Going to go review my lessons for tomorrow, watch a tv show on my computer, and head to bed!
Enjoy the pictures of Saint-Priest!
Reste cool:)
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