Life goes on!

So, time for another update.
I am no longer living in Karine's house in Franqueville-St-Pierre. Translation: I am no longer in the middle of nowhere. I am now living with my future flatmate Louise in her teacher Nathalie's house in the centre of Rouen. Words cannot even begin to describe how much of an upgrade this is. If I want to go out to get something to eat, I can. If I want to go shopping, I can. If I just want to leave the house and wander around anywhere, I can. I mean, I could do that in Franqueville-Saint Pierre but I would just see houses. And road. And more houses. And a bit more road.
So all in all, I am in a much better situation. BUT. We still have no apartment of our own. We had quite a depressing beginning to the day yesterday where we went round quite a few agencies with Nathalie who all said they don't rent apartments to two people due to students having bad reputations/annoying neighbours etc. THANKS FRENCH STUDENTS. THANKS SO MUCH. But, after what seemed like hours we finally found some agencies who said they did and who arranged some viewing for us. However, nowhere is furnished. So we are going to be those tramps that borrow furniture off people and buy 30 euro used sofas from the French equivalent of the Friday Ad. But I think it'll actually be quite fun to have a weird mismatch of furniture. We'll be original at least. We viewed an apartment yesterday that was just ridiculous, you had to walk up three flights of the most narrow winding stairs you had ever seen to get to a tiny apartment where you had to go upstairs AGAIN to get to the bedrooms. How the hell would we get two beds up there? We wouldn't is the answer. But we have three viewings tomorrow so things are looking up hopefully.
I had a really nice experience at school today where a teacher who I had never met just started talking to me in French and we chatted for a while about how I don't have an apartment yet and he said he would help me by lending furniture and that he would help me make a little poster, and then bless his heart when another teacher came in he asked him straight away if he had any spare furniture! It's so nice to know that the colleagues at my school are all so nice and friendly and willing to help. Oh, and he also came specifically into the staff computer room to play a French version of World of Warcraft. What a cool dude.
Tonight we went out to dinner and guess what? VEGGIE BURGERS EXIST IN FRANCE. There is a great restaurant in Rouen called Holy Cow that sells veggie burgers as well as normal burgers of course and it was SO good.
So all in all, things are going okay at the moment, and once we find our own apartment it will be even better.
Actually there is one more thing: SEAN PAUL IS NOW FOLLOWING ME ON TWITTER. THAT'S TRUE FACTS PEOPLE. THINGS ARE LOOKING UP.
Ciao for now x