Uphill battle

It's been a while since I wrote anything and seeing as my last post was thoroughly depressing it's probably worth updating this.
Things have got better since I last wrote, we have now finally moved into the apartment and even though it may be up 8 flights of stairs (I better be super skinny by the time I move out of here) it's really lovely. Somehow we managed to get furniture up all these stairs, we basically re enacted the pivot scene from friends with a couple of friends helping us out! It took quite a few days to get everything up here though. I feel like we achieved a lot because never before have I built a bed or dragged a sofa up 8 flights of stairs. This is true independence I suppose.
With regards to the bank, I still don't have a card, surprise surprise. I went into the branch where I opened the account and they said they would sort it out and then when I didn't hear anything I went into the one across the road from me and they said nothing had been done, so I sat down with them for about an hour until I saw they had properly changed my address and made them my primary branch and sent out for a new card. So now HOPEFULLY the card should come in the next week. If I have a bank card before going home for Christmas that would be fantastic.
Things with my prof ref have calmed down too, mainly I think because I now don't have to rely on her for anything now that we've moved the furniture into the apartment and I've changed my address for the bank.
It's nice to know that I don't have to text her all the time to say what's going on with the bank because having to do that alone was stressing me out.
As for the teaching, I think I've finally figured out some kind of system for each kind of class. For example, I have two Terminale classes today (equivalent of upper sixth) who are really good and really keen to talk, so today we did debates etc in class and it was a really good atmosphere in the lesson. But I have a Premiere class on Tuesdays (equivalent of lower sixth) and I find it really difficult to get any of them to participate, especially seeing as they are a massive class (I had seventeen of them yesterday). So what I did instead was print out a kind of English language question and answer bingo game and have them go and ask others in the class, and then reward them with a chocolate bar. Yes, bribery is the answer. So I feel like I'm getting into a slightly more steady rhythm.
There's currently a massive fair in Rouen on the left bank which I think may finish this weekend, so we've been a few times. Seeing as both Louise and I are still waiting for bank cards (hers got eaten by a machine last week) we haven't been able to book anything more extravagant yet but we're hoping to go to Disneyland Paris before the Xmas hols!
That's all for now. Very glad I only have two lessons tomorrow and then the weekend can begin.