So I just had the sleaziest guy hit on me. The whole time I just kept laughing thinking this can't be real, does this actually work on other girls. He was like I find you very beautiful. And then he was talking about how he finds non-Europeans to be so warm and kind. And how girls want a guy, right? I could be that guy for you I am very ( Read more... )

I have decided that some French words are just better than their English equivalants. I'm not quite sure why, they just seem to fit what I am trying to say better. For example when my host siblings are bad, which is often, my host mom calls them naughty in French (which I am sad to say I can't spell but I can say great). So now when I tell ( Read more... )

So with no confirmed date by JK Rowling (yes I have heard that Waldenbooks has released the date as 07/07/07) I think that it is totally unfair that people in Europe can now pre-order the book in English and Americans can't. I checked different American websites and they say nothing about pre-ordering it yet, even though we know it is coming out ( Read more... )

So I know that I need to update this and I have lots to share about me Christmas travels but I will save that for another time when I have more time or more homework to avoid. So until then the random facts/funny things ( Read more... )

Sometimes I have to remind myself that I am in France. This sounds crazy I know, but I am so engrained in my schedule I forget. Get up, eat breakfast, go to work, maybe head into the Centre Oregon, grap some lunch, class come home and pretend to do homework, dinner, pretend to do homework some more. And the speaking French has become normal, ( Read more... )

Some funny thing I had to share ( Read more... )

I am so excited! Magaly and I have planned (for the most part) are trip for the Christmas break. We are going to Amsterdam for Christmas and staying at this awesome hotel/hostel that is a modern art museum type thing. Then we are going to Brussels where we will eat really good chocolates and original french fries and go to Mini-Europe. Then we ( Read more... )

Today was the festival of the Beaujolais Nouveau and great times were had by all. Another thing I will never understand completely about the French. The French love old wines, to them the older the better. But every year they but out a wine that they only let sit for about a month. The French hate this wine but every year they have a festival ( Read more... )

So I just had one of the best French classes ever. Today's theme was love and realtionships. So we discussed all the ways of saying dating and falling in love and then in addition discussed falling out of love. And that brought up insults. Now normally (I think) people tiptoe around insults but my prof was right out there with some of the worst ( Read more... )

So I don't know why but this really bothers me but it does a lot. I got in trouble yesterday in class for speaking English, but I wasn't speaking English at all. I hadn't even thought about trying to speaking English in class because there are so many students from all over the world that the only common language is French. The guy I was working ( Read more... )