I'm waiting at the bus stop near the auberge de jeunesse where I'm temporarily staying. It seems that I missed the last bus by mere seconds as always seems to be my luck. My first night was not great but I guess perhaps not awful either. After I arrived at the train station I had no room booked for the night and my contact told me that she hadn't found another teacher for me to stay with and she doesn't actually live in Brest so there was no one waiting for me at the train station. Awesome. I was very close to panicking. Especially after two failed attempts to contact the hostel. Fortunately my contact got in touch with the hostel and all I had to do was figure out where the right bus stop was. While this generally tends to be a difficult task all on its own it was made more complicated by the fact that all of Brittany was hanging about on the streets outside the station to witness my frantic bus search with 2 large 50lb suitcases and a large bag on my back. As it turns out, there is one BIG event every year in Brest, a huge market/carnival event and it was happening right then.
The rest of my night- I made it to the youth hostel! Hooray! There was a very nice Chinese girl sharing a room with me who spoke Chinese, French, and English. Awesome! She was leaving though because she said there was nothing to do here... :( FML.
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