The Brits are coming!

I feel quite bad now that I've found out there are 3 other Brits living on my corridor and I haven't seen them yet.

I paid in the cheque that MAAF sent me for overcharging me for my insurance and also went to the station to check the buses for next week. It turns out that the SNCF (railways) and RATP (Paris transport (Metro, Bus, RER suburban lines)) are striking on Tuesday. Thankfully it's not on my first day at work but I'm going to have to find another way to get there on Tuesday. I'm a little concerned as I've been told that I will be acting as secretary in a meeting that morning so I really don't want to be late.

With respect to the allegations about Thales you can read the other side of the story here.

When I was at reception asking if they knew anything about the strike there was another girl there signing her contract. The lady at reception said that she was English too so I said Hi and everything. The lady at reception then gave us both a list of all the English people in the building. It turns out there are 14 including myself, and 3 of them are on my corridor. Another unlikely conincidence is that another guy from my uni may be coming to live in this building. There's someone with the same name due to arrive soon and as he's apparently doing a stage in Paris I can only assume it's the same guy.