I opened my first foreign bank account today! I needed to get one so we can get Kara a good and cheap cell plan: 20 euro a month for unlimited calling and texting, including to the US(!), and 3 gigs of data. You can't even get that in the states! And no contract! Unfortunately it debits the amount out of your French bank account (with no option to pay by credit card unfortunately) so needed a bank account for that, as well as a way to get cash out for free instead of paying crazy ATM fees each time for the next 6 months. I wrote about the whole experience here, and I'll know next week if everything is going smoothly or not.
Today's train ride to work was a bit more interesting than normal because on the way to Massy – Palaiseau stop, there were like 20 policemen (train police men?) moving down the train to check everyone's ticket to make sure it was valid since we were heading outside of the central Paris zone, so it costs extra. And the guy across the aisle from me didn't have a valid ticket. He argued passionately in French (I really wish I could understand it!) but alas it didn't get him out of the ticket.
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