So I am not in France yet. The reason for this is a combination of visa fail, weather fail, and other people fail. (Protip: if you are the Office of International Studies, you should know that the French consulate will require a flight reservation. Therefore you should make it BEFORE I go get my visa. Not after, on the assumption that you don't ( Read more... )

So, for a day that started off with me not getting enough sleep (my own fault and no one else's), today turned out to be pretty damn awesome.

First really quite nice thing: Thursday my Latin teacher says she's going to have us listen to Ursula K. LeGuin being interviewed about her recent book Lavinia, which is just piles of awesome because LeGuin ( Read more... )

YOUR ANALYSIS IS BAD AND YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD. And by this, I mostly mean that this (Marivaux's Arlequin Poli Par L'amour) is not a piece of which I find the analysis rewarding. I like to analyze two types of things: things which I really like, in which case I enjoy exploring in more detail the world that pleases me; and things which I loathe, in ( Read more... )

First, a reminder of how awesome this school is: today the chapel bells were playing...the Indiana Jones theme. Yes. I laughed out loud--no, really, in real life out loud.

And now, back to our show. For French, we have to read Le Cid, and I just finished. Man, I am all over this play like white on rice. Not only is it wonderfully written, to the ( Read more... )

Voltaire, je vous aime. Vraiment. Honnetement. Mais quand vous ecrivez une piece qui a tort tort TORT, je ne suis pas desolee d'avoir dit en classe que vous a tort. Et Zaire? A tort ( Read more... )

Oral presentations = do not want ( Read more... )

Je lisais "Un sac de billes", par Joseph Joffo, pour ma classe de francais. C'est l'histoire de petit garcon qui doit fuir des nazis en France occupée. Bien deprimant, non? Je pense que l'histoire me rend plus triste en francais, parceque je dois le lire lentement, pensant de chaque mot. En general, je lis vite, mais seulement en anglais. C'est un ( Read more... )

Well, okay, it wasn't that evil. Mostly just ridiculously long and grueling, except for the speaking portion, which...SAFKLGDHGJ I fail at speaking French. Srsly ( Read more... )