Paris Paris n°6 - Moved In !!!!!!!

Unfortunately today is the day of bad surprises… there is no video

Check back tomorrow though… not for any particular reason… but .. you know … we’ll see

The truth is the week’s been spent moving and unpacking and sorting and cleaning and everything that goes into it like I’m sure many people have lived through but that was truly a first for me (as well as starting the 2nd week of my new job!). Yeah I’ve moved a ton of times before, but I never had more than a couple of suitcases at most. This was the big Kahuna of moves. And well worth it !!

I found out that truly… and I mean truly truly truly

friends help friends find nice apartments

As glamorous as it was to spend hours sifting through announces on Seloger.com, pap.fr, and and explorimmo.com, it was the “friend” card via Facebook that finally did the trick. A message on a Facebook wall and BAM I was in love with this apartment. Then again… how could you NOT be ??

PS If you’re wondering, the photo was taken by Lâm – who I still have to meet but apparently is coming for dinner this week, so leave all of your compliments down below ;D

If you’re looking for an apartment, don’t forget those friendly social networks, because maybe even a friend of a friend of an ex-girlfriend’s old roommate that now lives in Sweden knows a guy that knows a girl who thinks her aunt is renting her apartment.

It could happen.

Ozanam moving association

In moving all of your stuff, it’s true that there comes the moment when you think, “oh holy mother of sassafrass, how am I going to get from A to B and all of my socks with me?”

Enter: Ozanam Services, an association recommended by My Little Paris.

It’s an association of reintegration for job seekers that provides employment as professional movers. You handle your boxes and rent a truck, and they’ll move everything for you.

The result

Fairly cheap, although it turns out there are other movers that will literally box everything up for you AND UNPACK IT???

Personally I enjoyed unwrapping stuff.

It’s like Christmas in July.

And it’s already yours…

But it was cool to hire people that really want to find work and need opportunities. I won’t enter into a long conversation about it, but I’ve always wondered how you can just switch from being in a cell and not having the liberty to go to the bathroom, to suddenly doing whatever you want…. it’s a reality that shakes my world (thank you Shawkshank Redemption) and I hope organizations like this are the right answer, providing opportunities for maybe some people that otherwise wouldn’t be able to find a job.

living in Paris 11th

Now just settling into the new neighborhood… it looks like you really can’t go wrong in the 11th, though.

Every single corner has bars, restaurants, crazy cool graffiti, the Père Lachaise right next door — which, did you know you’re apparently not allowed to run in there? pffff…it’s not like they’re going to wake up.. anyways — and it’s SO CLOSE TO EVERYTHING.

and now I hope you’re all getting ready for summer

I’ll have a few more videos (promise promise promise) before I take a break in August. And I hope you take a break too and just enjoy the summer sun… get out…see friends and family…

…and enjoy the small things in life.

Like having a whole separate room just for your washing machine. I know it’s normal in the U.S., but here…

it just seems surreal.

And a little bit like I should be saving kittens and puppies before I’m struck down by thunder for not being grateful enough.

happy Monday

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