Almost 2 months into our move

on our walk home to St. Genis de Pouilly, France
Well it is going to be 2 months since we first arrived in Geneva and somehow at this moment it doesn't feel like it has been that long. Ideally I should have started this blog 3 months ago so that Jorge and me could write down what we experienced and saw during our stay in Europe but because of mostly laziness I never got around to it. A lot has happened since we first arrived here and now that I think about it I do wish that we had written down our experience when we first got here. It was interesting to say the least.
From the time we set foot in Geneva things started off kind of rocky so we should have known that was to come for the first couple of weeks. Our first complication was trying to get a phone card to call home and let our parents know that we arrived okay. The task started out easily enough with us buying the phonecard but as soon as we attempted to dial is when we realized it wasn't as easy as we though. First the operator on the card was speaking french (which I know virtually nothing of) so I had no idea what was going on but I just knew the phone call wasn't going through. We tried telling the ladies at the window that the card didn't work and they were actually really helpful by trying to figure out what was wrong. Thirty minutes later they couldn't figure out what exactly was going on but told us that the lines must be down for that company and let us use their phone to call our families.
Our next task was to try and get to the house we were supposed to be staying at in the French side. We put all our crap in the taxi and gave him what we thought was the correct address and a general map of where the place should be and he drove us out to St. Genis Poully, France. Once we got there we realized that the address didn't really have an address and we were just kind of driving around random streets (which is no good since we were in a taxi and they charge an arm and a leg). We ended up knocking on doors and asking if they knew where the house we were going to could possibly be until we ran in to a very nice man who coincidently also worked at CERN and had some connections so he called a few numbers until he was able to reach someone who was able to give us the correct address. We finally arrived at the house ($76 dollars in taxi fare later!) and dragged our luggage to the room we were staying in upstairs and I proceeded to pass out. Jorge attempted to go to CERN to try and get himself registered but wasn't able to so he went back to the house we were staying in and then jetlag kicked his butt also and he passed out. We ended up waking up like at 9pm and realized we were starving since our last meal had been a cold pasterie and juice and yogurt we had gotten for breakfast on our flight over. Well apperantly the French or Swiss do not believe in having stores open past 7pm and our chances of buying anything to eat were pretty muched over. Although I don't know what good it would have done at that point if there was something open since we didn't know where anything was anyway. Well one of the people that was also living at the house was kind enough to offer us some of his potatoes. So we took some potatoes, some rice that was left over from a previous rommate and some consume (which is chicken bouillon) and made a sort of soup that was not exactly my best work but hey it was food and we were hungry.
The next couple of weeks were kind of pain since Jorge was not able to register because he needed a form signed from the US and we couldn't get our CERN ids without it and pretty much couldn't do anything without getting him registered. After getting Jorge registered things sort of started working themselves out.
In these two months we have already moved out of the house we were staying at and moved into a studio that isn't very luxurious but its at least a place for just the two of us thus making us both feel more comfortable. We have finally gotten internet so that I don't have to go to CERN everyday just to check my emails and have some connection to the outside world. We have by no means become fluent or close to semi fluent in French but we learn a bit more day by day but we shall see how that goes. We have travelled to a few places (which I will blog about more later). All in all its been an interesting couple of months.