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Wed, 16 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [601]
Sunday, Laure had to work, so she arranged for me to spend the day with some of the other anglophones from the day before. This turned out to be both Sarahs, because they were up and the other two weren’t. (To make matters worse, American Sarah ... Read more >
Tags: art, books, middle ages, museum, renaissance
Tue, 15 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [488]
After getting up on Saturday, Laure gave me a mission: to go to the bakery and pick up the viennoiseries she'd ordered. To help me with this mission, she drew me a map.
Her theory with giving me this mission was that out would allow me to ... Read more >
Tags: barbecue, coffee, family, guitars, wood
Mon, 14 Sep 2015 | By tatane | Views [189]
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Mon, 14 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [500]
Friday morning was rather lazy. I packed for the weekend, sorted through papers, and cleaned the apartment. After lunch, I headed to the university for my last "math" course of the week. Really, my only history class, since if it was a math course, ... Read more >
Tags: history, host family, math, trains
Mon, 14 Sep 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [625]
TOURS, THE CITY, MAKES A PERFECT BASE TO BEGIN exploring the Loire Valley, a busy college town with a pedestrian-friendly vibe. The Loire itself, dammed and levied nearly to death, still supports verdant vineyards, villages ranging from charming ... Read more >
Sun, 13 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [432]
I didn't realise until I got to campus that my next class (by process of elimination, that one had to be topology) that this class did not take place at the same lecture hall my previous one had. In fact, this one didn't take place at a numbered lecture ... Read more >
Tags: campus, dijon, math, topology
Sun, 13 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [384]
Wednesday I had no class. This was not a typical thing, but since most TDs were nonexistent the first week, it was true this week. This gave me a full day to myself. I caught up on the emails I needed to write (intended to catch up on the blog, but ... Read more >
Tags: books, language, registration
Sat, 12 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [449]
Tuesday began with a meeting at the Brown in France office of how to live like a real Parisian. Specifically, how to live cheaply in an expensive city,like a real Parisian student.
Tip number one: live at home. If your parents have lived in Paris ... Read more >
Tags: analysis, cheap, math, university
Fri, 11 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [419]
On Monday, I had two things I needed to do: meet with Stephanie about the pro-seminar and go to the university to see if I could have any luck registering for Russian. I also had things I wanted to do, like get internet working again. (I had eventually ... Read more >
Tags: gardens, pro-seminar, registration, seine
Fri, 11 Sep 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [700]
DEEP BREATH. EXHALE SLOWLY. A-A-A-H! We're on our own again. Ken and Dee left yesterday and are already home in Kalamazoo, happily back in their comfort zone. We traded in the big tank for a smaller car and set off on the ... Read more >
Thu, 10 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [562]
On Sunday, we met in Paris to catch the RER to Versailles. Besides the people in the program and the tour guide Guillaume, we were accompanied by Stephanie’s sister, Erin’s husband and two children, and Cambria’s parents. Cambria’... Read more >
Tags: art, fountains, gardens, history, mythology, versailles
Wed, 9 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [524]
There was absolutely nothing I had to do on Saturday. No group activities or meetings with my landlady. No apartments to visit or courses to register for. Not even any homework, since the course with Christine had ended and the regular university classes ... Read more >
Tags: books, free time, shopping, tea
Wed, 9 Sep 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [549]
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 [298]
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 [409]
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
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