Wednesday
We love a good day off!
Mme Bodet took me to my appointment for a transit card this morning. I got it set up, so now I can stop paying for tickets every time I get on the bus! So so happy.
Because we were already in Crémieu for the appointment, we zipped over to the Les Halles to see the farmer’s market. I’m bummed I had no clue that this was right down the street when I was in my Airbnb. It was awesome. There were so many local vendors selling a wide range of fresh products. Seafood, meat, veggies, and flowers. You could just picture people meeting here to buy their food over the course of centuries.
I needed to buy a lot of products for the new place, so we headed down the road to Carrefour. I was able to get all the essentials, some spices, some rags for cleaning, and more. It was expensive, but moving always is. We headed home and Mme Bodet insisted that I’d be coming over for dinner. She told me she didn’t want me to be alone all the time because I would get lonely. I just thought that was so sweet. I told her I’d be back at 7:30 to eat with the family.
I took a super long nap before heading out for a brisk walk!
I walked through some local neighborhoods. Mme Bodet had complained there wasn’t any style in local houses because they were all constructed at the same time. Sounds like a lot of suburbs back home.
I returned to my apartment to work on essays before dinner at 7:30.
I walked across the street to eat with the Bodets. We had roasted butternut squash, roasted duck, and a baked banana dish. After dinner I had some black tea with Daniel and Mme Bodet. We watched the news together for a while before I went home. I noticed that on French TV there aren’t ads for medicines. I asked Mme Bodet and learned that advertising drugs on TV is actually illegal in France, as well as ads for beer and tobacco products.
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