ONE WEEK TO GO.....

Well we have one week to go until we leave, but strangely enough I'm more worried about how our farewell party is going to go rather than the fact very very soon we will no longer have an Australian address.

Anyway I have had my first bad experience with the extremely unhelpful french bureaucratic system. I have been waiting for my contract to arrive for months - this is just a formality as I am being paid by an independent funding body. But still I like to feel organisms - however I only got this tiny simple piece of paper that would have taken about 5 minutes to organism last week. Now I knew that something like this would happen - I had been warned. Now all I thought I would have to do is sign the thing and send it back - et voila! But no, of course how could I be so dumb? I am told I need a tetanus vaccination (gee lucky me I got one of those last week when I smashed my head a got stitches - see silver lining guys!), a polio vaccination (don't these idiots know that polio is virtually eradicated from the earth's face??) and details on my hepatitis injections (sadly for me I'm a non-responder to this vaccination so really that doesn't matter). In addition to this plethora of needles I also need health insurance. And for those of you with knowledge about these 2 fascinating subjects 1) French health care system 2) the state of my kidneys will know this is no small feat. Anyway that's enough griping, I've got no doubt this will become a regular feature of this blog.....