Well, I made it! After several hours of travelling, feeling ill from the turbulence of the plane and working out how to get through Lyon in the rain, I managed to make it here. Been here two days now and I have found the university, and the relevant places for meetings and stuff. Success!!!
Took a taxi to get to the Mouillet's, friends I am eternally grateful to for having let me stay here while I still don't have a permanent place to live, and remembered that the French are crazy drivers. When your taxi driver spends more time looking at the radio than the road and uses the handbrake to stop the car, you remember what driving in this country is like. But hey, I made it here alive and all will be well! I've managed to suss out some of the public transport system now, which is a bonus, I may not have to get in a taxi with a driver like that again!
I'm gradually getting used to this whole language thing, and it's good living with French people because you realise that you actually have to use it from first thing in the morning. It's all good. Feel very tired at the moment simply because there is so much French and other information to take in, but I'm getting there. Now armed with a map of the town, a trusty French dictionary and a French phone, I have a feeling that I have all the equipment needed to survive in this city, as long as it doesn't demand too much of me!
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