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Wed, 9 Sep 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [314]
OUR PLAN FOR PARIS WAS TO DRIVE to the Campanile Hotel near CDG Airport, leave the car and take the hotel shuttle to the airport station to catch the train to Notre Dame. We didn’t count on the terrible commuter traffic, though, and it took ... Read more >
Tue, 8 Sep 2015 | By colandscott | Views [252]
Awoke this morning in Toulon, France. After a leisurely breakfast in Horizons we ventured off the ship. We have been selective in the tours we have booked, as to book a tour in every port would be massively expensive. In US dollars too?
Jeannette ... Read more >
Tue, 8 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [299]
After finishing the test, I did not want to sit down. So I just started walking, with the vague plan of going until I got tired, and then maybe catching a metro back from wherever I ended up. I got hungry first, and stopped for lunch at a crepe stand ... Read more >
Tags: apartment, dinner, french, internet
Tue, 8 Sep 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [369]
DEE FORTIFIED HERSELF FOR THE DRIVE ahead with a breakfast chocolate eclair in Amiens, not caring too much about the Notre Dame Cathedral. The American Cemetery at Normandy, after all, was one of their target destinations. It was a beautiful ... Read more >
Mon, 7 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [281]
One of the classes I’d registered for was French, so that needed to begin with a placement test. We were told to show up at precisely 9:00, and expect it to take about 3 hours. Because I can never get enough of French placement tests (why else ... Read more >
Tags: cultural differences, french, registration, tests
Mon, 7 Sep 2015 | By cygorman | Views [245] | Video | Scholarship Entry
Since I was a child I have worked with the poetry of music to convey feelings. In the last 5 years I have been working on my DSLR photography, & in the last 3 years with videography, learning how to capture and develop the poetry of light. In studios, ... Read more >
Tags: 2015 Film Scholarship to Colombia
Sun, 6 Sep 2015 | By elcastleberry | Views [421]
Last night, as I strolled through Lausanne with Sarina, Craig and Baby Malia, I felt the blissful, sudden on-set of euphoria that always appears shortly after I begin a new adventure. These moments are precious: the early stages of travel when bonds ... Read more >
Tags: castles, ferry, france, freedom, languages
Sun, 6 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [370]
There weren’t any morning activities scheduled on Thursday, so I slept in, walked around Paris for a while, and finally worked my way back to the university around two. This had given them enough time to respond to my e-mail, first to forward ... Read more >
Tags: art, course registration, french
Sun, 6 Sep 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 4 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [391]
Tuesday we met for a walking tour of part of Marais. “Marais” being French for “when I was a kid, the entire city used to a swamp, and we had to go to the Latin quarter just to be on solid ground.” It was led by Guillaume, an ... Read more >
Tags: apartment, class registration, tour, transport
Wed, 2 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [1013]
On Monday, I woke up in my own apartment. Although waking up anywhere else would have been rather disturbing, it still felt like a surprising thing to do. I did not need to worry about Ruby already being in the shower, or tripping over Clara's bags ... Read more >
Tags: apartment, cheese, groceries
Tue, 1 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [362]
The last apartment that I needed to look at was in the twelfth arrondissement. It was another one of those places where taking public transportation was nearly as slow as walking (about half an hour). And, given it was supposed to be a nice day, (a ... Read more >
Tags: apartments, home
Tue, 1 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [322]
Saturday we had nothing to do until 17:00, when we were meeting at a cinema to watch Dheepan. Which gave us most of a day to ourselves.
I woke up around 10, looked up a couple of destinations, and set off for Shakespeare and Company. It was ... Read more >
Tags: apartments, books, film
Sun, 30 Aug 2015 | By kakimono | Views [334]
A crash course in the names that the school I'll be spending next semester at:
The full name is Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie. When it's abbreviated, this gives rise to the rather logical UPMC.
Depending on the context, the Sorbonne ... Read more >
Tags: apartments, dessert, university, upmc
Sat, 29 Aug 2015 | By kakimono | Views [337]
Thursday began with police from the eleventh arrondissement coming in to talk to us. Three of them showed up- two actual police officers and one volunteer. (A couple of years ago, to improve their public perception, the police started accepting volunteers.... Read more >
Tags: apartements, police, rain
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