In an attempt to post something everyday, even if it's just a small thought, I will try to keep it interesting. But I'm going to need your help. So please, give me input on what things you're curious about, and I promise to respond back with what I've experienced.
Example 1) Banks Insure
Banks in France also sell insurance. Therefore, when you go to a bank with the intention of buying insurance elsewhere, explain this to them explicitly. Otherwise, even if you think you know the language (like I did) you may end up buying insurance from the bank, and not knowing until weeks later when someone who actually speaks fluent French reads through your paperwork. And yes, contracts are still contracts, even if you try and plead with them that you didn't really understand what you were signing. So for now, I am doubly insured for the little bedroom I share with someone else who is also insured. We're insured now, of this much I am sure.
So tomorrow I will go back to the second place I insured myself with, and explain the pickle I got myself, AND my other American friend into. But this is why we're here, to learn French.
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