I just had so much fun with my homestay sister (the older one, who lives away from home) - she came over for dinner last night and we got into a conversation about movies and she invited me to come watch a movie at her freind's house, so I did, and it was really chill and a made me nostalgic for home ... if we hang out again (which might happen ( Read more... )

1. Beyond the practical reasons, why have you chosen this setting? What particular challenges does it present to you? What advantages ( Read more... )

so at art class friday the model was spanish, so of course all the frenchmen were throwing out their bits of broken spanish at the coffee break, which got them talking about catalan, becuase either she also spoke catalan or was from an area that spoke catalan, and they were asking if she spoke it, I can't remember ... anyway, then someone said ( Read more... )

"l'épouvantail écouta attientivement, puis il dit: 'je n'arrive pas à comprendre pourquoi tu voudrais quitter ce superbe pays pour retourner dens cet endroit gris et sec que tu appelles le kansas ( Read more... )

so I went to modern drawing today and it was really funny and maybe crap as far as art is concerned, but fun ... but there was another anglophone there, a british girl named alex, who really cramped my style, because I wanted to talk to her but didn't want to talk english and alienate the french people, but couldn't speak french well enough to make ( Read more... )

bonjour space cadet ( Read more... )

this was one of the coolest things I've ever seen, and it has everything to do with what i want to do with art right now ( Read more... )

the theme of this trip seems to be 'agriculture,' in particular "biologique" (that is, organic) agriculture - I hadn't given the details of organic agriculture much thought, apart, perhaps, from what I speculated I might have to do if I decided to do that 'WWOOF' thing this summer (which I suppose I won't, but it still sounds cool) but it was still ( Read more... )

well (thank god) i think i finally found a place i can take art classes and consequently find a group to join to do my CSP (cultural study project - did i mention this?). I stopped by the societé des artistes occitains the other day and it looks like a petit, informal setup, and the people there seem really cute and quirky. When I showed up on ( Read more... )

sat down to eat lunch in a park near capitole. An old man was seated on the bench across from me (classic; little, grey haired, well dressed, brown coat, brown beret type hat) reclined, staring into space. BEhind him, a group of vagrants had colonized another bench - one girl with long, dyed black hair, another with long dreadlocks, and a short ( Read more... )