A whole lot of craziness

Alright, where shall I start. Good news and bad news.

Good news, I got the job at INSERM. The interview was pretty crazy, with 4 people. It was entirely in French. I guess I did alright, after the 1 h 30min interview my superviser Jean-Francois Vibert told me I got the job on the spot, and I signed the papers afterwards. The projects will be some multi-agent work on simulation of epidimic diseases (Kayley I think it's up in your domain). The pay is almost nothing comparing to what we get in Canada (540 euros a month), but it's about the average here in France. Students at interships are not meant to make money here.

So I will be working in Paris for the next 6 month starting from Feb 2005. I will probably still live here in Compiegne though, since it's impossible of finding a cheap place in Paris anyways. Plus I will be living with ppls that I am already familiar with.

Bad news. I got charged for tuition again for the upcoming winter 2005 school term in UW. I don't know why that it seems I can never get an straight answer from anyone. I mean I anticipated this problem back in Canada before I left and ppls at Registar's office told me I will only be charged for tuition once, in the Fall, even Cindy Howe (exchange coordinator) said so. If I have to pay for this, my coop money wouldn't cover it at all!

Well, if they make me pay for it, I will just have to apply all sorts of financial supports. But I would rather not to pay for it, cuz it doesn't really make sense to do coop to pay off the tuition for the classes that I am not even attending.

Anyone has suggestions on who can I talk to? or any one had similar experiences? Thanks.