welcome back to france

I am back in this country. Hopefully I will have a good time. The city of strasbourg, from walking around at least, is beautiful, both at night and during the day. I made lots and lots of phone calls today looking for an appartment, and a bunch of then wouldnt do for 3 months while others said they only want girls living with them..(ironically they were all guys that picked up those phone calls) and others said they would see. and of course I left lots of messages. Tomorrow I plan on going to the university and checking stuff out, as well as calling more places, adn hopefully seeing some appartments as well. I will also during lunch hour and dinner hours be handing out resumes. I got a list of the restaurants I want to apply to..so we'll see how that goes.

So yes I got paid today, in full and in cash. I also met teh rabbi from offenbach that I stayed at his family for pesach with and in appreciation for my work, they gave me a 160 gb ipod...im like wow...that was totally unexpected. And they also wrote me a nice thank you note adn all teh kids drew me pictures adn wrote me thank you cards...I was so touched, I almost cried. It trully felt like it was my best refference letter I could have ever asked for. It was so cute. I really will miss them.

All in all I am startign to get nervous, but I guess that is expected of me since I am a stressed out guy...but I am feeling a bit more confident than when I first arrived in Lyon. However if anyone wants to give me a confidence boosting speech I will gladly take it.

I also went to see a appartment today in cronenberg a suberb of strasbourg, and when I got there I knew I need to leave. It looked like I was in a mixture of algeria, turkey and the gaza strip. WIth gangs walking around, giving me the dirty look...im not sure why I wasnt even scared...but I definitely knew the place wasnt for me especially if I had to come home at 1 am..so no thank you.

oh I just thought of something funny. When I booked my train ticket..the woman only gave me a reservation on the train from the border of germany to strasbourg not an actual train ticket. and the conductor says wheres your ticket though? I said this is what they gave me how am I supposed to know it isnt the actualy ticket seh said it was a ticket so I believed her. the guy looks at his watch..we were about 20 minutes from strasbourg and he's like whatever..guess he figured teh train ride was so short anyways and there wasnt much time left in it just to let it go...haha amazing.

anyways off to shower..
yehuda