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| Um....? Also please note the white-out that covered up the "s" in thankful....WHY. |
23 November 2012
I am zanksfullll for......
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| Um....? Also please note the white-out that covered up the "s" in thankful....WHY. |
17 November 2012
vacances part deux
After my first week of vacation spent lounging in Angers, I decided to get out of town for the second week. My first destination was.....Paris (for the 6th time in my life). After my last time in Paris, I felt more keen on the place, now that I don't feel the need to visit all the tourist-y places, and because my friend Alex would actually be there this time! Saturday afternoon I boarded the TGV in Angers sans communication with Alex (for the two days leading up to my departure), unconcerned figuring it would work itself out by the time I arrived in Paris. Well, it didn't. I arrived in Montparnasse around 6 pm still with no contact with Alex, and by that point realized that her phone was also completely off. Feeling confident in my Parisien knowledge (ha!) I waddled to her house with my bags and plopped down at a bar to have a drink and wait for word from her. Luckily, I had contacted my friend who I studied with in Grenoble who is now living in Paris a couple days before, and he came to rescue me from my lonliness and had a chance to catch up. Eventually Alex turned her phone on, informed me that she had no idea I was coming that day, and met up with me at her apartment after she got off work. The rest of my time in Paris was spent partying with Alex and her comrades (until 6AM on a SUNDAY! These Parisians are a different breed....), meeting lots of people, and a short stop at the Musee d'Orsay to see the Impressionism and Fashion exhibit (which, was kind of a let down, but I can't complain since I defied authority and got in free).
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| Beautiful sunny day! (The day I left...) |
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| Mandatory lock bridge photo. |
02 November 2012
oops.
Oh gosh, here we are again.....following a three week blogging hiatus. Well, I'll say one thing: it was inevitable. What's funny is that I have not even been that busy. Alas! My laziness got the best of me.
As I look over the last three weeks, a couple of events stick out in my mind: dinner parties (LOTS of 'em), Halloween, and VACATION.
After some serious reflection, I have realized I have been to six dinner soirees over the last three weeks, including two which I hosted (which were rather small and barely justified a "soiree", I think), an international one, and a raclette one! They were all wonderful and great and keep me eating well and staying as rotund as ever.
Halloween has oddly been a large part of the last couple of weeks in my life. If you were wondering, the French don't celebrate quite as much as we do back in the States, and, had it not been for my teaching job, I think I might have almost forgotten it was happening (as I did with fall in general...). From my understanding, little kiddos get dressed up and go "trick-or-treating", although the fun of it is sort of lost, being that it is not their own tradition, which is understandable. I have seen only one apartment with pumpkins smiling down at the street, and, based on my expertise, the artists must have been expats, judging by the expertly crafted grins they were sporting. After the age of maturation, not much is done to celebrate Halloween in the style francais. I enjoyed telling my students all about the "grown-up" tradition of dressing scandily State-side, and watching their reaction as I described/mimed the infamous Mean Girls scene (below).
As I look over the last three weeks, a couple of events stick out in my mind: dinner parties (LOTS of 'em), Halloween, and VACATION.
After some serious reflection, I have realized I have been to six dinner soirees over the last three weeks, including two which I hosted (which were rather small and barely justified a "soiree", I think), an international one, and a raclette one! They were all wonderful and great and keep me eating well and staying as rotund as ever.
Halloween has oddly been a large part of the last couple of weeks in my life. If you were wondering, the French don't celebrate quite as much as we do back in the States, and, had it not been for my teaching job, I think I might have almost forgotten it was happening (as I did with fall in general...). From my understanding, little kiddos get dressed up and go "trick-or-treating", although the fun of it is sort of lost, being that it is not their own tradition, which is understandable. I have seen only one apartment with pumpkins smiling down at the street, and, based on my expertise, the artists must have been expats, judging by the expertly crafted grins they were sporting. After the age of maturation, not much is done to celebrate Halloween in the style francais. I enjoyed telling my students all about the "grown-up" tradition of dressing scandily State-side, and watching their reaction as I described/mimed the infamous Mean Girls scene (below).
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