SAMEDI ( Read more... )

definition in my homestay family's dictionary ( Read more... )

haven't updated depuis trop longtemps becuause par-ce que l'internet in paris was ridiculous expensive, so i should post a long entry now that i'm in toulose but i can't because i'm tired and this keyboard is whack and all out of order qnd if i try to tousch typz it looks mile this; you hqve to hit shift to get q period - its insane. but i can ( Read more... )

My goals for this program are basically just to acquire enough french to be able to read french literature and understand it more or less and watch french movoes and understand what's going on. Also, though, a big thin is I'd like to acquire the confidence to speak more frenhc with more french people, and the competence to speak french in such a ( Read more... )

during the paris metro dropoff we were supposed to practice our language skills by completing a sort of scavenger hunt - I received 5 words and had to figures out the definitions of them somehow, then report back to class and tell everyone what I'd found ( Read more... )

my mailing adress in france will be: c/o Julia Carnine/IPST 39 allées Jules Guesde 31000 Toulouse, France (three days!)

the way every season feel new each time I experience it, the holidays are starting to feel differnt each time they roll around, i think becuase I'm getting older and traditions are changing . . . this christmas has been characterized by an abundance of sweeet holiday booze - piesporter and champagne for the mum, white rum and kahlua and baileys ( Read more... )

I'm in singapore airport!

only like 20 hours left till michigan . . .

(WOO)

sigh . . . tired and a bit peaked (correct word?), but wrote a 7 page outline for my paper and I swear its starting to make sense - have basically nixed the idea of doing any more feild research even though i have three more days here, more out of apathy than out of logic - I'm just going to read my books, take notes, add them to my outline, and ( Read more... )

so I just saw my first goat sacrifice . . . yeah.