This weekend, my friend Susannah came to visit from Arles, where she's teaching English on the assistantship program. Thanks to her need to experience as much of Paris as possible in one weekend (she studied abroad here too, but living in France away from Paris can cause strong pangs of longing for Paris, so she …
Metro Stories
I hate getting behind on blog updates. As soon as things start to happen, you tell yourself you can't post about them until you've covered the stuff that came before, and then, next thing you know, you've found a job (at a documentary film production company), you put a deposit on an apartment, your boyfriend …
Panic
Often, we find ourselves sliding backwards, if you will. We think we're moving forward with jobs/apartments, only to find a new hurdle appear that tries to send us falling backwards. The last few weeks have been about learning to deal with these beat-downs and circumvent them. At the moment, though, come Sunday, we have nowhere …
The Accidental Local
I have been in Paris for going on three weeks now, and it is amazing how quickly one falls easily into routine. Perhaps this is because I have traveled so much this year, and so establishing a lifestyle for a short period of time has become second nature, but I really didn't expect it this …
Paris Inhospitable
Je recommence! After a wonderful summer in Turkey and all over Europe, and then back in the US for several months of fall to visit friends and family and make some money, I have started what I like to call "The Great Europe Adventure, Round 2." As you all know, I spent my junior year …