did you know that besides being an assez industriel and apparently beachless port city on the mediterranean ('une mer morte') quelques minutes par route from montpelier, set is also the jackal headed egyptian god of chaos, evil, wind, storms, darkness, war, and conflict? bi-zarre ( Read more... )

oh my god I'm such a nerd but I'm so excited for normal school - i got into all the classes I wanted ( Read more... )

figured I should go out thursday night becuase the group was leaving on friday for the excursion to Set, and it would be my only chance to hit the town in toulouse this weekend, so I went on the internet and found a samba concert at a café near capitole I'd never heard of, and decided to go at 9 - rachel wanted to come to and said she'd invite her ( Read more... )

Alors. J’ai décidé qu’il faut que j’aille au graduate school en France. Ou en Europe en général mais je pense que c’est logique que j’aie plus de chance d’aller à l’école dans une pays francophone ou anglophone que n’importe quel autre pays … malgré que je ne puisse pas encore parler (ou écrire, évidement) français, qui me vachement frustrée. C’ ( Read more... )

"... we kept saying thank you and he kept saying non, c'est normal, "tout le monde pense que les arabs sont méchants,("ah béh non!") mais oui malhereusement!" and that stuck in my mind ... because it would be weird to live thinking beaucoup de monde assume you're méchant without ever having met you, and to feel like you constantly need to be ( Read more... )

argh so this weekend I completely blew attending my last possible art class ever becuase the fam ate late then my mom talked to me for like an hour before my sister came in and was like 'didn't you say you had class today? ' then of course after running and throwing my stuff together I just miss the bus and because its saturday I have to wait like ( Read more... )

so I finished my paper and its way to long and tangents all over the place but grace a dieu c'est fini ... my final point was basically the mindnumbingly simple 'yeah, a lot of stuff's changed, but a lot of stuff's stayed the same quand meme' more specifically, the physical aspects of country life have changed a ton - there are all these new ( Read more... )

so lately I've been busy with the writing of the paper and haven't gotten a chance to post much, particularly things that don't have anything to do with my project, so here's a bit of a recap ( Read more... )

hahaha my homestay brother is watching 'homme chauve-souris' that's absurd ( Read more... )

I visited M. Lacoude’s sister today and learned a couple more interesting details about the lacoudes that don’t necessarily have much to do with my project but are interesting quand meme ( Read more... )