Establishing life in France: Steps 1 & 2

The first, and a very important step when you move to a new country, is to acquire an address. For those of you that might care to send me some fun snail mail, my address is as follows:

Mlle Heather Buskard

1 Rue Mme Stael

03100 Montlucon

France

The next step in acclimating yourself to a new life in a new country is to make friends with a local bar owner that is super nice, and let's you use his internet for as long as you'd like, even if you've only bought one drink.  

This little bar/cafe has become our second home, since we do not yet have internet in our apartment.  It's a great little hang out place, and we enjoy coming here.  We get to talk with some of the locals, including the little kids that venture in here to play the Wii that Greg (the owner) has connected to the tv in the place.  Yesterday we spent our afternoon here playing Mario Kart with French kids! If that's not a great way to acclimate yourself to this culture, then what is?