Yesterday my family had my good bye lunch. We had aperatifs, (drinks and crackers), opened presents, had the meal, and then dessert. I had emailed my mom what I wanted to get for everyone in my host family, and their presents arrived last week. We got a teddy bear for Constance, a calendar of old American cars for Paul, a book about the gadgets ( Read more... )

or Preyezon brehk, with a french accent ( Read more... )

I would like to formally announce that two weeks from today, I will be on my way home. I will have already left France and I will be waiting in Heathrow for my flight to DC.

Not that I'm excited or anything.

5 finals and a brief stay in Paris afterwards stand between me and home.

I just watched this French movie that's a parody of Jews called "Rabbi Jacob." IT WAS HILARIOUS. I mean I laughed out loud for the majority of it. It is in French, but if it's available with subtitles I recommend it to all. Apparently it's like the most famous film in France, and now I've seen it! clip from Rabbi JacobLast week, I watched a ( Read more... )

I visited Sammy, friend from NU, in Edinburgh this past weekend. It was pretty awesome. I got in really late on Thursday night, and Sammy and her Scottish friend Chris met me at the airport shuttle stop and we walked back to Sammy's flat. On Friday, we saw had lunch at this restaurant called the Elephant something, where we both had veggie chili ( Read more... )

My friend Sarah from high school is visiting this weekend, and we just heard this: hoot .

Yup, that's a Eurasian Tawny Owl.

Pretty cool. We heard it and then I searched owl sounds on google and we listened until we found the one that matched what we heard.

As the subject says, I am pretty much a social retard. I am pretty awkward to begin with, but in France, where there isn’t much in the way of awkward, I am completely maladroit. My host mom’s dad has been really really sick, dying, in fact, for the past two months. I’ve been worried about it, and in the beginning, when she first started going to ( Read more... )

I went to Italy for break with Molly, and it was pretty amazing. We went to Venice and Florence (Venezia/Firenze). In Venice we mostly walked around the whole time we were there, although we did go into a beautiful basilica, climbed a tower with a vew of all of Venice, went into a little church where there was an exhibit about Vivaldi, and saw ( Read more... )

Halloween here was pretty fun. Molly and I were tigers because of these striped shirts they had at H&M-she was an orange tiger and I was a white tiger. They didn't have any tiger ears though, so we just got normal black cat ears. A lot of people went to the IES Halloween party, and there was lots of candy, cidre doux, and other goodies. Pics are ( Read more... )

So I sent my parents an email basically telling them I'm tired of them leading me on, and if they're not going to be able to visit me, just tell me already ( Read more... )