Living with the French - on exchange in Nice by Timo Virtanen

A free lunch

Thursday, March 17th, 2011 at 19:27 | categories: Information

I finally got my contract for the apartment this week from my lazy landlord, which meant I was able to open up a bank account and apply for the French housing benefit. I’ve no idea if I’m going to get any money, but I guess it’s worth trying. An interesting fact is that when you open up the account in BNP Paribas and tell them you’re a SKEMA student, the account will be free for a year. On top of that they’ll give you 50 euros with no strings attached–or so I’m told anyway. Maybe the free lunch does exist after all?

On a different note, while I’ve been here, the weather’s been about the same with temperatures in the 10-15C region. I feel like the spring is coming since today somehow felt warmer–even if it necessarily wasn’t really. Also the forecast says it’ll be 17C tomorrow, which is the highest predicted so far. To celebrate this I bought strawberries. They were good.

Strawberries. Mmm.