Paris has many appellations - City of Love, City of Light, Most Touristed City in the World, the list goes on... I, however, am of the opinion that there is another, less-recognized characteristic of this city: If you are going to meet anyone anywhere, it is in Paris. When I say 'meet,' I mean nearly …
Bonne Année et Meilleurs Voeux!
So, okay, that wasn't a very long layover time from that last post, but I have nothing else to do today, so why not update, right? As in the US, it's a jour férié, meaning a national holiday, so basically nothing's open, and while I suppose I could go out and meet up with friends, …
Enjambement
I wrote this before break, on December 19th, I believe, and just never got around to posting it. I'll post this now and then write a winter break/New Year's post in a bit. Bonne Année tout le monde, et meilleurs voeux pour 2007! (Happy New Year everyone, and best wishes for 2007!) **** For the …
Changes, ch-ch-ch-changes…
Sorry, I'm sick and that's the first title that came to my head. Music and all. Yes, my friends, I am sick. Sick in Paris. In my last week and a half before going home for break. In the last week and a half many of my friends will be here. In a week and …
Décembre
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 …
Kate Thorman 