listen, all. I'm going to prague on friday. I just bought the ticket. this is maybe the most impulsive thing I've ever done and I'm excited and astonished all at once. I also spent the last two hours hanging out with my host family (loose term, he's 35, she's 31) and their friends, as we ate dinner at 10 pm, bottles of wine kept appearing, and ( Read more... )

So, briefly, I wanted to say things are better, at least in this exact moment. Why? Yesterday I had a picnic in the Tuileries, wine and cheese and bread and strawberries. The grey clouds against the white sky made us a little nervous, but it didn't start raining until the moment we had finished everything. Then we walked up Avenue de l'Opera for a ( Read more... )

Alors, I am here. In Paris. In the basement a more-sketchy-than usual internet café on Blvd St Michel. I am taking a brief respite from the hoards of girls who make up this program; there are 40 of the fairer sex, and only two guys. Which means that it's hard to avoid moving en masse; girls tend to do that anyway, and when you're a group of freshly ( Read more... )

it is overly strange to sit in my mother's bedroom, with santamonica air/view/smells surrounding me, and be barraged by reserved students emails and commands to come play pick-up on mertz at 4:30. classes start today at swarthmore, and by now I would be moved in, hunkered down, and a million mental miles away from these walks and meals and southern ( Read more... )

I know that LA is supposed to be smoggy and disgusting, but the air in my backyard is one of the most delightful things I have smelled in ages. Even when I want to panic slightly and have trouble breathing, I can't; I just keep inhaling slowly and steadily and wondering how it is, exactly, that I got here ( Read more... )

I have balanced a day spent in the library writing my final english paper with a day spent doing absolutely nothing. Except an awesome frisbee practice, obscene amounts of time spent online, and visions of indian food dancing in my head ( Read more... )

The way I've been running my life these days never ceases to astonish me. For example, I didn't go to the classes today that I am actually enrolled in for a grade (one of which is a class for my major). However, I did go to a) the class I am taking pass-fail and b) the class that I began auditing after spring break just because I should have taken ( Read more... )

70 degrees. daffodils. so much frisbee. a good crossword (done in the sun, with roommate and a bagel, instead of french class). unexpected conversation. iced tea in a nalgene. iced coffee that didn't work quite so well. potential solution to spring housing concerns. so much sun.

SO MUCH SUN!!

This is amazing. It is spring, first of all, and though there is a 90% chance of rain at the frisbee tournament tomorrow (and apparently a chance of snow for Sunday)(!!), I spent a glorious hour having lunch on the grass with an ever changing group of delightful people. I love when everyone comes out of the woodwork and takes part in each other's ( Read more... )

Is it bad when your mantra in class is "Actually, I don't care ( Read more... )