I used to be able to do that thing where you just write and write and write without thinking or backspacing, no conjugation no erasing, and now there are obstacles, namely, I can't remember words (irony?). Free-hand? It's what that book J.D. Salinger wrote is written in the style of. Am I just making excuses or ( Read more... )

En plus, the following is a list of people I have encountered at some point in my life who have appeared in my dreams in the last few nights:

Tony Detomo
BRENNAN!
Bobby Murrell
Andrew Sage (friend from Angers)
Mrs. Messenger
Doug Gill (friend from Tulane)
Allison Graff
Kate Radtke
Mom

Dites-moi, am I getting homesick or what?

There is something truly satisfying about nibbling at a baguette...to me it's like stopping to smell the roses ( Read more... )

So in order to obtain your residence permit in France, you have to have to go see a doctor. They take an X-ray of your lungs, and in order to do so you have to take your shirt and your bra off for a nurse (yeah, really). No one gave me a heads-up on this, so when the nurse told me to do that I was pretty shocked and uncomfortable, but of course got ( Read more... )

Today I spent like a typical day for Tarzan, swinging from tree to tree. Mais c'est vrai! I did something called "l'accrobranche" (or un parcours d'aventure), where you attach yourself to different lines running between trees and you either slide down the line, or you climb on different courses varying in difficulty. When you slide down a line, you ( Read more... )

Hello world! I have an official class schedule. Check it out ( Read more... )

My time in Angers is almost up. We leave Friday for Paris. I feel like I'm leaving Angers prematurely...I just got used to living in this city and having the schedule I do and everything! My housemate Ashley suggested I walk around by myself sometime and just soak it all in, she had done such a few times and really enjoys it. Well, of course I took ( Read more... )

Hey dudes and dudettes. Today was great. Gotta recount a grande vitesse. I have to survey a bunch of people for a project at school, so I ran around for three hours talking to strangers with my classmate Laura. We were interviewing about marriage. So, in total, I accidentally asked a 21 yr old girl if she had a girlfriend (I meant BOYfriend!!) and ( Read more... )

In the event that you ever need to know, the inhabitants of Angers, France call themselves Angevins. Not Angeriens. That probably sounds too close to Algerien, and colonization of Algeria iiiisn't really a good topic to bring up at the dinner table. One girl from Tulane's host parents told her the first day to watch out for the Algerians, because ( Read more... )

oh boy, i think i'm just gonna spill em out in anecdotes, cuz there's a lot say! in no particular order ( Read more... )