I got back from Taizé this evening, and...wow. Just, wow. Throughout the week, I added to a letter to Geoff, making it a kind of diary. I'll use that as a guide for this blog post, I think, so I don't forget anything important.

Okay, so Monday morning, I was feeling very lonely and sad after a long lonely weekend devoid of meaningful human ( Read more... )

It's been almost 3 weeks since I last updated. You haven't missed much. Lots of whiney homesickness, stomach sickness, crappy papers/midterms, boring trip to Normandy/Brittany, completely broke...

But also springtime! AND DISASTER BIKE!! :D

To summarize my misery, here's an email I wrote to my aunt:

It's not even that I don't like Paris. I could ( Read more... )

Roomie was here the past couple of days. It was really nice. She brought me some more clif bars, and my mom sent me trail mix...so I'm happy. :)

Roomie and I hung out Friday afternoon - had a picnic and then wandered around - Opera Garnier, Arc de Triomphe, Champs-Elysees, etc. Then we met up at the Louvre Saturday morning and made fun of art. We ( Read more... )

I just bought my tickets to Geneva! I had to pay a little more than I was anticipating, but I had already decided to spend the money my grandma sent on spring break expenses. I've now spent $297.65 out of $300, haha. But yeah. It will be really neat!

Roomie is here in Paris, but I haven't seen her yet. I was going to last night, ( Read more... )

Day 3 of sunshine = :D :D :D

Today, I had a midterm. Someone pointed out that there was no space for it in the syllabus where she broke down the overall grade (like, what things are worth what percent) and asked how much it's worth. She said 30%. We were all flabbergasted. She got mad at us for caring about numbers instead of learning and told Oby ( Read more... )

Okay, so, Saturday I was super depressed/freaking out about money. Saturday evening I ran and saw L'enqute [The International]. That helped a little, but I was still kind of down.

Yesterday, I got a baguette and went to the park by my house after church. So Perfect.

Sunshine. Blue sky. Kids riding bikes and scooters, kids playing with soccer balls, ( Read more... )

Okay, here's what's happened in the past few weeks:

- Provence was amazing.
- Ryan's visit was amazinger.
- This past week has kind of sucked.

However, yesterday I had a full 3-4 hours of happiness! I went to the Bois de Vincennes, and it was wonderful. Sunny! No coat/scarf! Lake! Trees!

Oby moved in here. It's kinda nice. They wanted Maria to move in, ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I was craving a milkshake. I started searching online, and found an American diner here in Paris. I actually ended up getting a brownie with ice cream (which was SO delicious, btw), but that was definitely not the best part of the evening.

The place pulls off the American thing pretty well (it was started by a USC film student, actually ( Read more... )

It's still really gray outside. It has been warmer the past few days, though, so that's nice. It's actually supposed to get up to 49 today!

Yesterday ended up being pretty nice. I went running, came back, and showered. Then I bought some lunch...and they accidentally charged me 8,00e instead of 0,80e. I paid with a credit card, so I wasn't really ( Read more... )

An interesting night for dreams...

First, I had a dream that I can't remember how it started, but I think it was originally a movie trailer but turned into something real? Anyway, there was this guy who started studying cannibalism just to understand whytf people did it. Then, he became one. Then another guy heard the first guy's story and wanted to ( Read more... )