Nous sommes arrivé

So, here's what's happened thus far:
We arrived on the sixteenth of September in Brussels and took the train to Lille. There, we stayed the night in a hotel. The next morning, we took the train into Denain and got our apartment. We slept that night on an inflatable mattress that we purchased at the supermarché. The next morning, a man came by and asked us what we needed. They gave us a fridge, a stove, some furniture, and a bed. We got our bank accounts set up. That took two hours and ten signatures. We are having phone and internet hooked up on Wednesday the 26th. Basically, everything is great and everyone is very friendly and helpful. What we don't have, we are borrowing from the teachers at our schools. What I've learned so far about this program is simply to roll with the punches and everything will work out great.

So now, all that's left to do is keep eating a bunch of cheese and drinking wine until work starts on the 3rd of Oct. We will be traveling to Lille for orientation then. Until next time.