Friday, April 20, 2007

I have been in france for 8 months.
Why am I not completely fluent yet? I don't know. But it's pissing me off.

Things I've been obsessing over lately:
  • Regina Spektor. Amazing. Just freaking amazing. Download, listen, bask in the glory (or wonder why on earth you just followed my directions... she is definitely a love or hate artist)
  • Ouverture-facile.com This is a riddle game that is punching me in the face. It requires a little bit of computer skill, but really, just a little. Once you start you will be hard pressed to stop. (I'm on level 30 in english and 7 in french)
  • La Bieirie's poulet-curry paninis. Tasty as heck. I wish they were spicy though... mmm... spicy.
  • The fact that I am really not going to be able to narrow down the course selection that I have to 4 classes for next semester. Really really not.
I finally got my Carte de Sejour which tells me that I am a legal resident in France until the end of October 2007. Awesome. Next time I get asked for ID I don't have to explain why I don't have any (becauseIwastotallyanillegalimmigrantforacoupleofmonths).

It is finally warm again here.

Re the requests on my last blog. er... french teachers are scary. I will get picture the last week of class (the last week in may) but I can't guarantee that every teacher will cooperate. There might be some incognito missions going down soon. Operation teacher photograph. I need a better name.

Sometimes deciding between two very awkward situations is difficult. Sometimes I really like it too.

I really dislike how everyone lives so far away from each other in france... or at least in small town france. Now that I think about it small town america is probably exactly the same, except for 16 year olds can drive. This is very inconvenient

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I checked out Regina Spektor a while ago after hearing her on the radio and waiting in the car until they said who the artist was. Looked her up - pretty cool. I thought maybe she was related to Phil Spector but no. I've only heard one song.

Mom