... But I think I'm actually getting *a little* better.  I'm now at least starting to understand what I'm doing wrong, and how to fix it on some level.  Still, not great though.

I had one of those moments when I realized that my French had improved dramatically while chatting with two people at a New Year's party the lycée was throwing for the ( Read more... )

OK, I'm not updating as regularly as I had initially anticipated.  Sorry 'bout that, but I feel like not enough is happening on a day-to-day basis to warrant individual posts, but then I wind-up posting really long posts that cover multiple days... so yeah, sorry ( Read more... )

Sorry for the long post...

Right, so status update...  I was going to update Monday, but life got in the way, and then the internet died... again.  So here's the deal: I went to a couple concerts on Saturday (part of the FIG), started with a pretty cool interpretive dance troupe named "Danser Sans Compter" (Dance without Counting)... unfortunately ( Read more... )

1. Most common store in downtown St. Dié: Hair Salon. Number 2? Pizzeria ( Read more... )