I came, I waited for a month, and eventually they let me win.
Okay, so not as dramatic as "Veni, vidi, vici", but I guess it'll do. Today was a tremendous day for me. I accomplished, mostly today, all the things I wanted to get done in the first week of my stay here. It just took a lot longer than I initially thought. I was able to enroll (or, mostly, I'm still missing one form), get a student ID made (which took all of thirteen seconds while the ladies helping us played a video game), pick up my checkbook, activate my Carte Bleue, transfer money between bank accounts, find a recharge card, learn how to recharge my phone, and, as a bonus, found out that the package my mother sent me over three weeks ago (probably) didn't get lost after all. In other, unrelated news, today I saw a 4-wheeler in the middle of downtown Bordeaux. Totally incongruous. And then I ran into the guy who owns the neighborhood pizza joint, who we've talked to at his restaurant a few times and have run into in multiple situations. I guess tha...