Thursday, December 3, 2009

a bad day and then some!

So I don't usually complain about the transportation out here as it is a pretty good system, when it is working that is! lol However, yesterday was literally the worst day for transport that I have ever had!! I headed out around 10:30 in the morning and got to the station with the train still on at the platform. However, it then sat there for 15 mintues without even telling us that anything had changed or that it was delayed. I finally got to where I needed to be and did what I was doing. I then headed back into Paris to go out to Chelles to coach. The train worked fine until about three stops from where I needed to get off and then it slowed down and stayed a little longer at every stop. I then ha to run to catch the train to take me to chelles. Of course, I got there and two out of the three trains were cancelled. Eventually a train came and headed out to Chelles, however I think it was the slowest train I have ever been on. So I get to Chelles and I headed to the bus stop. I waited a few minutes and there were no buses around anywhere, which seemed odd to me. At some point two police officers came by and said: "didn't you know there are no more buses?" We were like no, there were no signs, nothing! So we find out that the reason there were no buses was because one bus driver was 'attacked'. There are 5 bus lines and they shut down all 5 of them because 1 driver was 'attacked'. Only here! so I then had to wait 20 minutes for a bus to take me 5 mintues from where I was coaching. Finally I got to coaching and wasn't really sure if I ould be able to get back to Paris. I ended coaching at 8:30 and was staying to train. I had two choices for getting to the train station. a) catch the 9:10 bus or b) the 10:25 one. So because I wanted to train I stayed and headed to the bus stop at 10:10. I got there and the electronic sign read 'service finished'. On top of that it started pouring rain. Finally the bus came at 10:25 anyways. Finally I got back to the train station, got back to Paris and home, around 12:00 am! What a day!!!! Thinking I need to find a job that pays me enough so I can buy a scooter! lol

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