My countdown until coming home has started. I've only got forty-some days until I'm no longer living in France. I can't describe how excited I am. France is a lovely country, and the people are nice, but I don't think I could live here again. The combination of how closed French society is and how uncomfortable I get about my French makes it a ( Read more... )

This year, my new year's resolution is to be more disciplined. Normally I'm a very disciplined person, but somehow being in France with very little to do with my time has completely drained me of any motivation in my life. And I feel like most of my time here is being wasted. So! I made myself a little chart, with tasks to do every week, and ( Read more... )

It's a foggy day in Vierzon today, and I'm feeling tired, but my life around here has improved a lot over the past couple of months. I still am not dancing, and I'm having trouble dealing with the lack of exercise. That, combined with the amount of caffeine I've been drinking means that I'm still not sleeping very well. I'm cutting down to one ( Read more... )

My birthday was actually really good. I went to Bourges for shopping (I decided that I would allow myself to spend money on clothes, which I don't do very often, but ended up buying books instead...), then had a good dinner, and met some people in a bar to watch the rugby match (which I ended up unable to see because of the crowds, but that was ok ( Read more... )

Instead of working on my capstone (the "how the law actually works" section is due in a week, along with many, many other school-related stresses going on right now...and today is supposed to be the day that I finish reading about it so that I can start writing tomorrow), I have decided to write a list of reasons why my roommates (pretty much ( Read more... )

Today was my first day of a class that immediately pertains to what I want to do with my life: Perspectives in Cultural Anthropology. It was very exciting! The professor seems pretty fun, and seems to have a similar way of looking at the world to mine. That's important since, as we went through a really quick overview of the history of ( Read more... )

So, for the past couple of days, there has been a lot of walking. We’ve been exploring the city (with my friend D, who was in Paris with me and is down here from a visit to her family in France.) The first couple days, we wandered pretty aimlessly. Saw some beautiful and/or interesting things without really knowing what we were looking at. ( Read more... )

My archaeology class got out super early today (the last day of classes!), and now I'm stuck on campus with nothing to do (I can't do work, it's all at home...). So I'm catching up on comments and posting until it's time to go to lunch ( Read more... )

I'm procrastinating on writing the conclusion to possibly the most boring paper I've ever written. Seriously, I knew going in that I wasn't going to be an archaeologist (too much like what my dad does...), and although I've really enjoyed my professor's lectures (I think that archaeologists and paleontologists all are have the same personality ( Read more... )

I'm taking a class called "Language and Culture" for my newly declared Anthropology minor. It's one of my two anthro classes this semester (the other one is archaeology). I'm a junior now, and I plan to go to graduate school for anthropology, to eventually become a dance anthropologist (yes, that does exist). As this is my first semester taking ( Read more... )