First Day in Sedan Sept.27th/Foreign Banking Part 2

This morning, I had a lot on my to do list. The assistant from last year is currently in Sedan to help me take care of practicalities, like opening a bank account. Since everyone takes a two hour lunch from noon-2pm, we decided to have lunch at Les Halles, a great place to get some cheap decent pizza.
Next, we headed over to BNP Paribas- turns out YOU NEED AN APPOINTMENT TO OPEN A BANK ACCOUNT!!!!! They don't accept walk-ins. After James explained that I needed to open a bank account ASAP (I needed it open before my orientation in Reims, which was October 1st) the man at the welcome desk made a few phone calls, and voila, I had an appointment set for tomorrow at 11:00am. Yay! Now, hopefully I can do this myself............

Then, he took me on a tour of Sedan and the school-nothing too interesting. There's a "Botanical Garden" and some of the buildings still have bullet holes in them from the Wars. 

 
Still no internet, phone, or public transit. After our tour, we went back to drink some champagne that he brought from the University he's working at.  It was quite yummy, then we went shopping for practical things. Got back, ate a late dinner.