And finally, I'm ready to post a vacation report. I know it's taken me long, and I know reading vacation reports is somewhat like looking at 874 pictures of someone's "cute and precious" grandchildren, but I am still going to write one, so please bear with me. ;)

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My grandfather -- my mother's father -- passed away last Friday. He died peacefully in his sleep, having spent only three days in bed, having almost reached his eigthy-fifth birthday; as my dad said afterwards, "you have to do something really worthy to deserve a death like that." I must say I never really thought my grandfather a remarkable person ( Read more... )

Right, so here we come to the studies.

The University of Burgundy And What Lilan Saw There

The university is big (I'm hoping to post some pictures later, when I have better connection). However, it's also kind of...miserable-looking inside, with paint peeling off and good old blackboards with chalk which I'm not used to anymore - we use whiteboards ( Read more... )

Hi all...so here I am, back again, with something like a hangover after this trip. It all took me more than two weeks, so I think I'm going to write several entries about it.

First of all, the visa. I shudder to remember my trip to Kiev to get it. It started to suck at the very start, when my train was 1.5 hours late, because of the phosphorus thing ( Read more... )

Okay, so here's a little quiz about France, based on my observations: *chuckle*

1. How do you know a tourist in France?

2. What is the most common language used at the Centre Internationel d'Etudes Françaises, Dijon, in summer?

3. Why do French professors of Italian origin make such terrific history teachers?

4. Why did M. Vauban have the Citadelle of ( Read more... )

...So I'm finally in Dijon, fighting a weird French keyboard at the university "multimedia center," which is in reality a big room with computers *chuckle ( Read more... )