You know what's really good? Finally getting something you've been waiting for 3 years, and really waiting for 5 months.

AAAAH I saw 2 concerts of Arcade Fire in 3 days (i.e. my favorite band since I was 14, in my hometown!), and the second half of November was probably among my best and happiest moments of the year. Unexpected good grades coming ( Read more... )

This journal is dead, but I now have an excuse! Namely my lack of internet at home. I won't have it until I don't know when, my translation teachers are going to be so surprised by my sudden lack of vocabulary.

Anyway! Meme. Picture meme, that I've seen in so many places I can't really tell who I've stolen it from.

Take a picture of yourself, as you ( Read more... )

So it appears my taxi is coming in 4 hours and I'm still not done packing. Actually I'd like to go get myself a green tea and stroll the streets at night, but then again the luggage won't take care of itself.
I can't remember if I've mentioned it before in here, but I left France and I've been living in Vancouver for 4 months and a half now. Because ( Read more... )

People high five-ing in escalators in metro stations ( Read more... )

Back in early September :

Teacher : So kids, I guess you already know that you are supposed to spend you second semester abroad, in an anglophone country, right ? :D
Class : Duh.
Teacher : Well things have changed this year ! You don't just study abroad and live off your parents' money like a leech while you pretend to study ! You're going to work. ( Read more... )

You just know your school year is going to be amazing when :

- You realize that all your languages teachers are actually real foreigners, and not someone who fails at faking an accent,
- You have a course very demurely called "History and Myths", which is actually a lecture of Tv Tropes,
- In the first 10 minutes of said class, the teacher has called ( Read more... )

I'm abroad ! Touring China and Japan and generally incredible places ! Yay me for knowing how to butt into cool things...

Also, why did I ever think that catching up with more than 2 weeks worth of f!list was something feasible ? I'll stick to the "I'm a moron" explanation for now, unless someone can come up with a better wording...

But even if I'm ( Read more... )

Right. So, guess who just got accepted in one of the 2 best translation schools of France ? Oh, yeah.

I THINK THAT'S ME.

(Cue a lot of flailing on my part and plans to celebrate it in remarkably distinguished ways. Ahem.)

Also, there have been a lot of forest fires around my house recently. And because I live on the border of a cliff, the firefighting ( Read more... )