Things have really settled down.
We left SG on Thurs night, reached Paris on Friday morning. Checked into our rental apartment, setup our internet and mobile lines, which will take a couple of days for it to be ready. Utilities is already available in the apartment. Our mobility agent will open the account for us and it the fees will be deducted directly from the French bank account every month.
The rest of the day was spend unpacking.
2nd day, Saturday, we pretty much did nothing, just went to buy some groceries, home essentials.
3rd day, I went to get some free food... which is actually quite a lot, probably will last me 5 days or so cos my wife only eats dinner. This is when I realized I pretty much settled into Paris. Cos once the food is free, then there's almost nothing else to pay for besides utilities and transport.
Now it's the 4th day. My wife's first day of work. I sent her to work and bought a bit more groceries on the way back. Rice in particular. On my way home, I found myself a free baguette... so now I have bread for the next 2-3 days. We don't eat much bread so it takes some time to finish. But it's useful as a snack...
And now that I've gotten back... I'm just hanging in my apartment and just typing my blog and drinking tea.
This is when I realize, most of my life in France would be similar to when I'm in SG.
Before freegan, I was just hanging at home, cooking, cleaning up the place, blogging, reading news, watching movies, etc.
And now... I'm back to doing that. Which feels kinda weird, cos... I thought maybe life would be a bit different. But now I'm back to the usual stuff. Like I may want to walk around someday, but settling in is pretty fun and relaxing for now.
I do miss a lot of stuff in SG, like friends, activities, family, food.
But besides that. Life goes on.
It's pretty cool actually, cos I realize... there's not a lot one needs to be happy. I have my laptop, my kitchen, food, clothes, internet and furniture.
And once again, I feel... why do people buy so much stuff? Cos I have all I need and all I brought to Paris is in 2 suitcases.
(That's cos the Paris apartment is fully furnished) But really... After unpacking, we further realized that we didn't need to bring much clothes and that the shipment of clothes that's coming later this week would also probably not be necessary so likely some of the boxes will remain unpacked when they arrive.
Furthermore, since this apartment is rented, I'll not want to buy any additional furniture enough though I may feel it helps a bit with daily life. Like a toiletries rack might be nice to place my stuff in the toilet. So I'm planning to make myself a toiletries rack using discarded crates which is easily found at markets cos the vendors use the crates to transport their produce.
Anyway, what I felt most intriguing was that it took me around... 4 days for things to get back to normal. I expected it to take longer, like maybe a month or so. But daily operations seem the same and besides being away from home, everything else as a lifestyle is the same, but maybe we might take a short day trip out this weekend if the weather permits.
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