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another breakfast at the hotel, and then a bath. i love the bath. there hasn't been a bath in my apartment in 8 years, so i love the bath where and when i can. then we go work on our first task of many: getting seth's brand new tri-band cell phone hooked up with a french plan. it's our first real complicated conversation in french and it doesn't go too bad; it goes even better when the salesman starts speaking english. french cell phone plans are pricy; about 45 euro for 2 hours talk time a month. he opts for the pre-paid plan. later we go to the net cafe and i finally call corrine, the conseiller pedagogique, and my contact from the school. she wanted to meet with me immediately, so she picked seth and i up and took us to the central school in vancluse and i meet the "inspector," who i guess kind of like a superintendent. then she tsk tsks us for not calling her earlier, but in a nice way. she really wanted to help us with everything, and since it is now late on friday afternoon all the apartment agencies are closing and we'll have to wait until monday to start looking.