Thursday, September 22, 2005

Thanks for the message Cath and Lucio, really great to hear from you. I can imagine you in Modena eating lots of lovely food and generally having a great time. We need to come and visit I think! There are rumours circulating between, well, me and Kat that we may, repeat may come out in December or January for a little fun time. I think that sounds cool.

Anyway, things in Bordeaux are certainly looking up. Our flat is looking more and more normal by the day, and sometime over the next two days, a van should arrive with our stuff in it. So that'll be double great.

Really good thing: I've got lecteurship at Bordeaux University, which means that I will be given a salary, and be able to teach English properly for the first time. My contract will last a year. Now onto the next mission: to find Katie a job.

Time to go now, got a rehersal tomorrow with the band (first one), and need to do some writing pronto.

Take care and lots of love to everyone who continues to read this on and off!

Ben x

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

After a week looking, it looks like we might have found a flat in the centre of bordeaux. Yeah! IT hasn't been easy (even harder writing on a french keyboard) mainly due to the amount of info the landlords want that just isn't possible. For example, parents who pay their taxes in france. Well I just don't have any that do that. Your last three pay cheaqes in France. Same again. But in a good flat, we seem to have wangled through a mixture of anglo saxon charm and a fun loving attitude to have won round the landlord. Final bureaucratic rumblings tomorrow, and then onto the job and all that that entails.

Super bueno. Speak to you soon.