The first few days

It's now day three in my French escapades and I must say, how lonely it is to travel on your own! After a very frustrating first day in which I landed, realized I was missing a luggage only to find out that it was left in DC, then with the help of the very helpful baggage claim representative, found the bus I was supposed to take to Creil, then to reach my place only to find no one there, and that no one would arrive for the next 45 minutes while I go about in my broken french trying to find someone who had a phone I could borrow, and then finally get in to my place once the lady arrives with her daughter, only to realize that I don't understand about 75% of what's being said at me, so I smile and nod like an idiot, then unpack and sleep and rest and whatnot, and then a second day where my second luggage finally comes! but unfortunately it has no handles anymore (thus its extended stay in DC), and I find out that I need multiple papers before I get my official stay in France "carte de sejour", and then I sleep more, finally, I realize on my third day here that traveling alone off in a very distant country is downright lonely and sad. =( It's nice for a while, but then you realize that there's no one to enjoy it with you! Alas, the downside to this choice I've made...