It’s starting to get to me that my plume has been lazy this year. Especially looking back on all the little memories that pop up in my head, I can only hope that don’t dissipate as quickly as they came. Who would figure the year I write the least is the year I have the most to write about. I guess what it comes down to is that I’ve enjoyed ( Read more... )

coucou monde ( Read more... )

these days i am very much the negative image of what i was a couple of years ago. i say this frequently it seems, but it's good to be ever-changing. events in aix have been intriguing, at least i have not yet been capable of being bored. i was on vacation the week before this last one, and i went with fourteen of my friends from the program to ( Read more... )

yesterday morning i went to a patisserie to buy a cake for my friends birthday with the special request - no chocolate. this was only due to the fact that the night would be shared by a round of chocolate fondu. i walked into the placed, took a gander, then had a gander, then gandered, and eventually fell upon a raspberry tarte in the window. ( Read more... )

je me suis rendu compte, en ce qui concerne mon acquisition du français, qu'il me faudra bien l'apprendre à traverse l'écriture et non seulement la langue orale ni la langue lue. après avoir entrevu toutes les 250 pages d'une petite partie de l'ouvrage massif de proust, j'ai été bien content de confirmer que cette langue-là ne sert à rien. il te ( Read more... )

the nice thing about not having class til 14h tomorrow is that i am able to stay up late tonight looking through all my photos from what seems like ages ago. a nice opportunity to get excited about my family coming to visit next week, and to remind myself of all the great things i've been able to see, relationships i've been able to hold on to, ( Read more... )

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( rends-toi au rendez-vous )

there is no denying the picturesque quality of a city like aix - that's what gives them the right to charge twice as much at the grocery store located on the cour mirabeau versus the one tucked behind the construction and across the autoroute that cuts just across the southwest corner of the rotunde (okay, perhaps its rather the nature of the ( Read more... )

Eh voilà la première mise à jour à la française de ce séjour ( Read more... )