Good idea: Tagging along with housemate, who registered her interest in dining at a gourmet restaurant in Paris (which is difficult to get into), and recently received good news that a table would be available today for lunch.
The food and service was excellent, and if we hadn’t ordered 2 cups of coffee, the bill for our three-course lunch would’ve amounted to only 37 Euros each. (With the coffee it came to 40 Euros)
Bad idea: Thinking we can make it to Paris and back in less than 2 hours per trip (i.e. to Paris and then back from Paris). Paris traffic was bad. Along the way, we started to appreciate the value of our Electronic Road Pricing system back in Singapore.
Mitigating factors: Telling our professor in advance that we may arrive late to school (which did happen), and contributing more in class to (hopefully) make up for whatever we missed earlier on.
God, please, I want a 4.0 for this subject….
Learning points:
- Good to tap on INSEAD classmates’ knowledge of getting around Paris - that helped us find a cheap parking lot
- Good to be friends with your GPS system which can help you avoid heavily congested areas - though we have yet to find out for sure if it helped or made things worse, or made no difference at all
- Bad idea to leave the car park ticket in the car, because we required a code on the ticket to get back into the car park!
- Good to speak a bit of French so we can ask for directions when really lost
I’d like to upload photos of my Paris escapade but have to dash from school now and get home. The internet connection at home is busted so I can’t update anything from there. This is not how I’d like to operate… hopefully we can resolve this problem soon.
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