I'm still alive, I promise. Just been living the crazy life. The weekend after Thanksgiving, Jojo was in town with her mom and aunt. The week following that, I started babysitting. Yay money! Not yay crazy four-year-old girl. Crazy. The weekend following that (last weekend), Jojo, Philippe, and I had the craziest weekend of our …
Joyeux Thanksgiving “parisien”
Thanksgiving exists outside the US. Not as a holiday, exactly, but rather as an opportunity to take advantage of Americans abroad, and, consequently, to fascinate non-Americans. And, actually, it's kind of a strange holiday to explain - we eat turkey, cranberry sauce, potatoes/sweet potatoes, and pumpkin pie; we hang out with family; we are thankful. …
Christmas comes early here
First, before I start, I just want to say a few things. 1) Obviously, I'm fine, I'm just super busy these days. But everyone's been wondering what's happened to me. Just busy, guys. 2) I'd like to ask everyone for a few prayers/thoughts for Chase Edler, a friend of mine from USC who passed away …
Life is beautiful
I am a terrible, terrible blog owner. It's just been a crazy two weeks. The weekend before last, the one after I last wrote, I went to Oxford. It was amazing, amazing, amazing! Amazing to see Willa and Debbi and Caitlin, amazing to be in an English-speaking country, amazing to eat good Indian food, amazing …
the stairways up to the butte can make the wretched sigh / while the windmill wings of the moulin shelter you and I
Two posts in a few days - what is the world coming to? ;-) This was a chill weekend. I was trying to relax and recouperate after being dead all last week. But then, yesterday evening, I got restless. I hadn't left the apartment all day, so I decided, as it was nearly dusk, to …
What is normal?
I wish there was something interesting I could tell you, but there really isn't. Life has settled into a pattern. A very hectic, busy pattern, rather akin to my life at school. I'm taking 6 classes (20th century Euro history, Classical Literature - Epistolary, Literary Genres, Sociology of the Media, French Art History up to …
A week in pictures
I wanted to entitle this post 'Ennui' because I feel that way right now, but that would not be doing justice to the last week, so I shall refrain. So, last week was my first full week of classes. Allow me to say: exhausting. I have counted, and, officially, I have 26.5 hours of class …
Nuit Blanche
Today, my host sister Virginie asked me to explain Thanksgiving to her. That was interesting. I've come to the conclusion that it's a silly holiday, but still yummy, and that's what matters. While Americans know how to party, I've decided that the French really know how to celebrate. In France, they have an annual festival …
School is still school
So, they sort of lied to us when they said our classes don't start until next week. We found out mid-week that the lectures for history started this week, but nothing else. Also, classes at the Institut Catholique started this week. Which meant that I had two more classes this week than last week. And …
Normandie, et plus
I have so much to say, the last week has been so busy and interesting. First of all, my classes have been pushed off another week. Yes, the French university system is extremely disorganized, so, while we were supposed to start this week, we don't actually start until next week. Sweet. Today, signed up for …
Kate Thorman 