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The Tour de France experience was wonderful! I think Kelsey, Jameel, Heather, Carolyn, Caroline and I were the first ones there (at about 9:30am)…except for a few American tourists. I learned that patriotism sometimes comes dressed in an American flag biker vest and cut-off Wrangler jeans. A midst the cobblestone boulevards and the 18th century French […]
No school today, happy Bastille day! I’m at Carolyn’s dorm right now, we just got done working on our Haiti presentation and going out to dinner with our fellow study abroad-ers. Tomorrow morning is the Tour de France, and it’s supposed to be in the 70s and mostly sunny- perfect. We’re planning to be downtown […]
It rained today in sunny Pau! The thunderstorms are supposed to continue all night and all day tomorrow. Don’t worry though, forecasters predict sun and temperatures in the mid 70s just in time for the Bastille Day parade on Thursday and the Tour de France on Friday. Here is a numbered list of things I […]
Salut tout le monde! Sorry for not updating in 2 days, Saturday I was in the Basque country and yesterday I spent lounging and in the midst of naps and writing post cards and reading in bed I somehow never made it to the computer. The Pays Basque was lovely. We stopped first in the […]
Today I was surprised to learn upon arriving to school that we had a mandatory scavenger hunt downtown after class. Apparently they told us this on the first day, in French. Lo and behold, I missed that nugget of information. Class today was interesting…we spent the first half doing a reading comprehension activity on the […]
Today has been a quiet day, recuperating from last night’s festivities. My family’s friends won on Pekin Express! It was quite the party, 20 or so middle aged french people crowded around the TV in the living room drinking champagne and watching their friend race around South Africa. The team’s chances were looking bleak until right at […]
It’s been a great day so far! Class was really good today, we spent the last 15 minutes talking about idioms and translations. As we learned, the direct translation for “couch potato,” pomme de terre d’un canape, does not mean anything to them. Also, instead of saying something is peachy, they say “J’ai la peche,” […]
Ah, WiFi woes. Augusta told me today that I shouldn’t think of France as a place where the internet doesn’t work…she said there do exist places in the hexagon where the WiFi is reliable and the connection is strong, though not here. Oh well, it could be worse. I had Skype working without interruption for […]
Today I have been in Pau for one week. It is the 4th of July, and also my friend John’s birthday back home. (Happy birthday John! No longer a teenager!) I got home from school, fell asleep, and was woken up by Augusta throwing water balloons at my window from the pool. I went down […]