update from paris

[dan501]

life is swell here. french is better than it's ever been. by a lot. I can talk to strangers and I only need to tell them to talk more slowly about half the time. in fact, I was surfing the free wifi (pronounced weefee) outside a cafe with cherry and jimi when a guy asked if he could take our picture. we talked for about 20 minutes and the

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[dan501]

I keep planning on updating twice per weekish... but I don't know if my stories would be as large (as I envision) if they were daily instead of saved up. but I think that people are more inclined to read along when it's a frequent thing they can count on.

which is a lesson I learned from zefrank.

[dan501]

thankfully, he only goes back to march. I pity the people that find zefrank in 6 months (like finding strongbad now...)

[llythefaerye]

*grin* Thanks for the update! Always makes me smile to read your posts . . . And often when I most need a smile!

[dan501]

thanks for the nudge. I probably wouldn't have gotten around to the post sans nudge.
and I appreciate your appreciation.
thanks.

[llythefaerye]

LOL - anytime.

[eyestothesoul]

Nice to see you update :D Megan (shamrockergrl) sent me the link to zefrank and said she got it from your latest journal entry. and thats how i knew to come read this entry. It was a pleasant 2am surprise.

I would love to go to Paris, someday. For now i am but a lowly new york college student with a 2nd minor in french, learning everything i know from a grandmotherly french professor who likes to wink at me. Someday, someday i'll make it there and get to converse with real Frenchies (altho said professor IS a true honest-to-god french woman, she doesn't quite satisfy all my desires). Anyway, I'm glad everything is going well for you over there! Enjoy and continue to update from over there!

[dan501]

I figured you two would be sports racers when I posted the zefrank link.
can you do a junior year abroad? had I done a junior year, I probably would have not done it abroad. at this point, I'd be kicking myself for having not done my junior year abroad. but since I never did a junior year, and my life has not turned out too shabby so far, I kick myself not.

the bottom line of that hypothetical paragraph is that as your attorney, I advise you to do your junior year studies in paris.

further, as your attorney, I advise you to organize "french night" wherein you and other francophones hang out, eat cheese, drink cafe, and speak que francais.

[eyestothesoul]

alas, my junior year is over. I did not do my junior year abroad. I'm already kicking myself for not thinking abuot this sooner and doing my junior year abroad. Maybe a grad school adventure will bring me there though... if not, where there's a will, there's a way, so eventually, I know i will make it there.

Good advice, and I think I will be organizing a French night soon, and speak French to all my non-french inclined friends, anyway.

[dan501]

slacker.
maybe next junior year.

let me know how the french night goes.
perhaps advertise it in craigslist and meet some frenchy strangers as well as people you alreayd know?

[lo_spettro]

Everyone knows who Theodore Geisel is, just not everybody knows they know.

I'm curious about the equipment you use.

[dan501]

I've been burned on such things before.. I once quoted ET to someone who said they'd never heard the quote. I begged to differ. in the end, I told them it was from ET and made the triumphant I-told-you-so face because of course they'd seen ET. guess what

[lo_spettro]

Have fun with that translation. As a student of Chinese I've been trying to think of a way to translate something like Dr Suess into Chinese. I haven't come up with anything.

So what are you doing in France?

[dan501]

at the moment, I'm hangin with the clowns and not learning russian.
normally, I'm laerning french, doing yoga, taking pictures, spinning fire, missing my fiancee, making friends, and influencing nipples.

I've already taken half a go at translating a dr seuss... but it was an off-the-cuff 15 minute effort commentary (as opposed to translation). I expect a real translation, as opposed to commentary, will be notably more difficult.

check it out

Je n'ai pas des accents.

[goaskalice71]

Est ce que vous allez a Burning Man?
Je voudrais voire vous est votre femme.

Re: Je n'ai pas des accents.

[dan501]

je suis presque certain que j'irai au burning man.
mais le futur n'est jamais certain.