In seven weeks, I’ll start a new chapter of my life in Ukraine. Although I wish I were there already, I know that seven weeks is a short time to prepare for such a thing. I’ll go as a tourist at first and will have to come back to France after two months and a half. I don’t know yet what kind of visa to apply for after that. I need to take some ( Read more... )

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I started learning Russian for a bit less than two months now and I find it slightly different than when I learned other foreign languages. I think it’s due to the fact that the alphabet is different, but there might be more to it. Anyway, I have noticed that my approach is different than what I expected. I first gave myself a hard time trying to ( Read more... )

I work as an occupational therapist for people with autism. For each one of them, the manifestations of their autism is very different.

Yesterday evening, during dinner, one of them sitting beside me at the table suddenly turned to me and asked me with a worried look on his face: “Are you afraid of war?” The question caught me by surprise. I told ( Read more... )

A few days ago I had one of these strange dreams I have sometimes. I was given a bible and asked to go to church (I’m an atheist). I opened the book and it was written in an alphabet that I couldn’t read. Except for one page: it was full of mathematical equations and they all made sense to me (and I’m pretty sure they would never make sense to me ( Read more... )

I just spent the last half hour playing with google maps, re-visiting San Francisco, going back in the streets where iconoclass and I went for a walk. It took me a long time to find the gate of China town where we had an incredibly complex coffee with a delicious flavour at the next Star Buck coffee shop, and then drank it while sitting on the stairs of the ( Read more... )

Yesterday iconoclass and I went to her first band practice, in a small town nearby. As each time we meet a group somewhere around, people we’ve never met before came to greet us the traditional way: cheek’s kissing. Iconoclass was prepared for that eventuality and refused politely, reaching out her hand sometimes, or just flatly refusing to kiss the reached ( Read more... )

This is one of the best summer I've ever had. Although the weather is far from being clement; although we're not going anywhere on vacation; although the official term for my summer isn't vacation, but unemployment. Despite of all this, I feel that we are in the middle of two months of bliss. Apart from grocery shopping from time to time, there is ( Read more... )

I find a bit confusing the use of the word "inhumane" to express something horrible. It sounds as if humans weren't capable of doing something horrible. Atrocities are very human to me. Unfortunately.