Life of Åsmund A working life

THE FRENCH SYSTEM

It's a lot I can say about the French system, but in it's own way it works. Everything works - as long as I know which forms to fill out, how many copies to bring, why and last but not least the shoe size of my father's son.

The thing that annoyed me the most was the metro card here in Toulouse, the Tisséo. To get a metro card in Toulouse you need the following:

- Identification (passport)
- A picture
- A confirmation stating that you're a citizen of Toulouse - this means your apartment contract.

My apartment contract for a metro card, are you kidding me?

I would like to assure you, I don't hate the French bureaucracy or anything, I'm just not very impressed. Then again everything gets harder when you don't understand what the form says.

Today I found out that there is an election for the student council here at INSA and that several of my class mates are participating. Therefore I went to Bib'INSA to give my vote - I figured I could do my duty and help the GP list (GP = Génie Physique, my faculty here at INSA).

When I got there I was amazed - it's a big election - and what a system! It was straight forward - a French paper mill I can handle!

I had to stand there for a while just to make sure it was true.

It was true. Simple, no big forms, no passport pictures to hand in, nothing hard! Before I got in line to vote I saw JJ from my class and started talking to him. When I told him I was going to vote for his list he told me I couldn't vote. What?! I can't vote? For the first time in France I've found a paper mill that is accomplishable, straight forward and simple - and I cannot participate!?

Arrgh! It's definitely the French system playing with me.

Listening to "Dig out your soul" by Oasis

 And now something completely different:
I'm sitting in my room, it's quite cold - autumn is really kicking in here in Touluse. No worries, it's only cold because I haven't tuned in my radiators yet. It's getting warmer every minute :)

Veit and I tried to open the bank account for the Lindy Hop group yesterday, but we had to go back today because the right person wasn't there. But now it's all done!

Listening to "Dig out your soul" by Oasis

The past days I've been listening to the newest Oasis album "Dig out your soul". I downloaded it from iTunes because we're going to the Oasis concert in Toulouse the 17th of February(!). The album is great, recommended by yours truly!

I wish you all a pleasant day!