What's that famous saying??
An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Yeah, unless you're moving to another country in the somewhat near future.
When I found out I had been chosen for TAPIF (ok...way before knowing if I'm honest), I spent a ton of time online searching for blogs and any other sort of useful information that could potentially help with the big move. Several of the bloggers were talking about how they were going to try to get a lot of doctors visits over with before getting to France. I thought that might be a decent idea, plus I was long overdue for a few visits.
I mean, yes, I know there are doctors in France. That seems like a pretty simple concept. However, when you think about how you are already going to be going through a pretty intense transition (regardless of how well I may or may not speak the language), the idea of trying to describe your symptoms in a foreign language seems a bit daunting. I don't mind avoiding that for the first little chunk of time at least.
A combination of the reasons above along with my own procrastination issues has led me to the same decision...it's time to go see the doc(s). At least I'll be going over to France with a clean bill of health and won't have to try to tackle the French medical system during my first few weeks (knock on wood, right?).
So, here goes:
1) time to get my eyes checked
2) dentist---make sure I don't need any fillings
3) full physical
4) get prescriptions sorted before going
5) make sure I'm up to date on immunizations
This is just a beginning list, but hopefully that's close to all of it. Eyes are getting checked next week, dentist next month, along with things here and there and in between.
In other news, I'm going to be going to my visa appointment at the French Consulate in Houston on August 1st. Feels exciting to have an official date set for that. Hopefully I'll have my work contract by then.
We have a Facebook group for the Amiens region TAPIF 2014-2015 people going. It's exciting getting to see some of the people I'm probably going to be really close to next year.
So far, our region has people from:
Texas, New Zealand, Vermont, New York, California, North Carolina, Spain, Oregon, Ohio, & Pennsylvania.
Those are just the people who have found and joined the FB page though. So exciting. So far, I'm the only Okie in the group. Can't wait to make these new friends and get to know everyone. I've also started meeting some cool people who are going to be in France with TAPIF, but in a different region.
Check out http://americainefille.wordpress.com
Jennifer is going to be in the Lille department, which isn't far from the department I'm in at all. We hardly know each other, but we've bonded via blog and are going to have some sort of tomfoolery in the future, I'm sure of it. She's got some really great info on her blog, which also offers another TAPIF perspective.
At the same time, I'm really starting to get a solid little group of friends at American. I have a lot of fun at work, so it's going to be something I miss for sure. I guess I'll just have to start convincing people to start putting those flight benefits to use. ;)
Exciting stuff!
bisous mes amis
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