September, 2010
I may be anglophone, but I’m not deaf or stupid.
I know I have an accent and I know it gives me away as a foreigner as soon as I have to say more than 5 words. For the most part, people are really good and I actually appreciate those that speak at maybe a slightly slower pace or take care to speak “properly” (without [...]
Things you don’t expect to be different.
I took a taxi to get from the hotel I was staying in to my new apartment because I wasn’t about to walk a couple kilometers with my quite heavy suitcases. As the driver was finishing putting my suitcases in the trunk, I threw my laptop and camera bags in the back seat and hopped [...]
French TV, moving in, and other ramblings.
I’ve been watching way too much TV lately. I’m not normally a big TV watcher, but in the absence of internet, it helps pass the time. I’ve definitely really noticed, both in Iceland and now in France, that we are subjected to a ridiculous amount of advertising in North America. In Iceland, there were only [...]
This time tomorrow, I should be in my new place!
Before I get started today, I’m just going to mention one thing: I hate talking on the phone. I always have. In grade 3, I actually broke down crying at school because my teacher wanted me to call a business to ask them a question (I’m pretty sure I was supposed to be calling a [...]
Lazy day…
For the first day all week, I didn’t walk many, many kilometers today. In fact, I walked nowhere and my body is thanking me for the chance to recover. Yay for a lazy, lazy day. I watched French cooking shows on TV (I am so not a foodie.. all the fuss over food in France [...]
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