Last night I returned from nearly two weeks "abroad". My students have a vacation, so I do as well. More information (and photographs) will follow.

Essentially, my friend Jenny and I went to Bruges (that's in Belgium!), one of my favourite towns in Europe. Absolutely gorgeous. We also watched the amazing film In Bruges in Bruges.

We then went on to ( Read more... )

Apparently my French accent is really hard to place, now. I've spent four months (halfway point in this job, huzzah or boo!) here in Normandy, so my accent is slowly kind of normalizing into a Norman-ish French. However, I still use Québecois or old-fashioned words on occasion (even things like "auto" for "voiture" ("car") and such). My ( Read more... )

It's really JUST occurred to me that I have a two week vacation from work starting in a week or two, which means I need to come up with something to do for that time! I'm in Europe. As my coworkers keep telling me - "tu dois en profiter", you have to take advantage (literally "profit from") the fact that I'm in France ( Read more... )

 So... oh my goodness, weeks ago, now, I visited the Antique Mall off Whyte Ave in Edmonton with the lovely especially in search of a few things ( Read more... )