And I've certainly been doing plenty of that! Here are the hilights from my trek all over Versailles and Paris this weekend! Saturday and Sunday, I was mostly on my own in Versailles, because the de la Bigne’s had a family wedding in Normandie. Before they left, I got to see Thomas and Georges, two of my “French brothers”. Thomas is absolutely hilarious. When Chrystel admitted that she was the only member of the family who didn’t like “bandes desinees” (comic strips), Thomas scowled and told me “it’s a real social handicap, you know” [View Full Entry]

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Finally, a real update thanks to wifi internet access. I'm actually in Pau now, checked into my hotel, but I'm going to back up and fill you in on my weekend in Paris/Versailles, so indulge me, if you will ;-) CouCou tout le monde! So here I am, safe in France and back in the bosom of my loving French family. I have missed them so so much, and I’m so happy for the chance to spend time with them before I head for Pau. I left Wednesday evening from Philadelphia. Now, for those of you familiar with other installments of [View Full Entry]

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Bonjour, tout le monde! Here I am, back in Versailles, and it feels absolutely amazing to be speaking French and visitng all my French friends, though of course I miss everyone back home as well. I have a super-long update that I'm planning to post soon to fill you in on all the details of my trip, but right now I'm on the de la Bigne's computer with it's crazy french keyboard, so I'm going to keep it brief. I'm not even over my jetlag yet, but I've already been to the Cathedral St. Denis, the park du Versailles behind the [View Full Entry]

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So Technically, this entry is cheating, seeing as how I'm not ACTUALLY in France yet. I leave the 19th (more on that later), but I wanted to have something on this site so that when I send out a mass email to friends, family, and fellow Francophiles with the blog address, they wouldn't be confronted with a dishearteningly blank page. I'm spending a couple weeks "chez moi" in Baltimore before I hop the pond, and quickly realizing how much I have to do in a very short amount of time. I have to basically fit my entire life into baggage small [View Full Entry]

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