Sometimes, I feel really lazy, and the only thing to get me motivated is cooking. I’m discovering all sorts of new things to cook here, and I got lucky and have a huge, well-equipped kitchen(even though the knobs on the stove and oven are missing). A few weeks ago, I complained to my mom how baguettes were some of the…
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La lecture, le vin et les escaliers…encore
It has been so long since my last post that I can’t even remember what’s happened in between…all due to one dreary reason: classes. On Monday, we were brought out of our extended winter break slumber and returned back to school, with real classes and longer syllabi this time. After I received my fourth syllabus, I was ready for May…
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La Complainte de la Butte
For anyone who thinks shopping is frivolous and gratuitous, I urge you to reconsider. You obviously have never shopped in France. Today, I went on an adventure to find the stairs of Montmartre. I’ll admit, Rufus Wainwright had me convinced to go when I was 12, but today was the day. One of my friends told me there was an…
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A Bientot…
Today I went to les escaliers de Montmartre, but unfortunately you’ll have to wait until Thursday to learn more about that…I’m trying to separate my blog from my column. I’ll probably update later with other occurrences, but for now I’ll leave you with these:
Expectations are for the Naive
Today, I visited Paris I, La Sorbonne. I’ve been looking forward to this ever since I saw this (promise it’s appropriate this time! 😉 also I hope you speak French or have seen this movie with subtitles). I’ve always thought of the Sorbonne as classical French education and was so excited to see it…and it wasn’t only because I wanted…
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