Blogs from France, Europe - page 1234

Here are some pictures of Cannes! I wasnt expecting to be living in a place with palm trees! The weather has been great here so far! It rained real hard one day a week ago, but otherwise it has been in the 60s, I still need a jacket but I wont complain! My project director took us out to dinner the second night here and showed us around the city. She showed us La Sucée, which is the oldest building in Cannes. We then walked around the shops and saw where the Film Festival will be. The next day I went on a tour of Cannes with the other Americans at this college, they are in a different program than me so I cant go on a lot of their excursions but I managed to tag ... read more

Here's my visited countries map - not very impressive, but looking forward to paint it red all over.... Beginning with Egypt, in seven days' time! ... read more

Salut bloggers ! I have acquired quite a few nicknames this season, mostly unrepeatable but my favourite is super ang. I'm not really that super, its just to tease my partner in crime Rosy who I have been spending far too much time with lately in and out of work. We spend the majority of our time in the office laughing, I have taken to wearing waterproof mascara as I am in tears at my desk most days, anyone would think we had no work to do, most think we are mad. I've had to ask Mikey (resort accounts leader), to rota me some days off alone to stop me going insane otherwise I might have to check into rehab soon for a few days! Seriously though, I'm really enjoying the contrasts work wise and scenery ... read more

I forgot to tell you all about the holidays we've had this past week. Last Saturday (the 2nd) was La Chandeleur, something about lights and candles. Our civilization teacher was explaining it too us last week, but I don't remember why its a holiday or anything like that. All I knew was that you eat crepes. And we had lots of them. We had dinner crepes with ham, egg, and cheese (I think I had two of those) and then dessert crepes. My host family brought out a plate with about six inches of crepes, there's only four people in the house. I don't remember how many I ate but it was a lot. There was sugar, jelly, lemon juice, and syrup to put on the crepes...no nutella though, bummer. It was good. And then of ... read more

La vie....la vie est une suite plus ou moins logique de rencontres, de questionnements, d'expériences, de chocs et de sentiments....mais parfois il y a aussi la routine et je suis fière et honorée de partager ce petit bout de ma semaine ! Donc...comme je vous le mentionnais je suis allée lundi après-midi à Bron pour vérifier les locaux ainsi que les heures de mes cours en histoire. Pour vous situer un peu, Bron est situé à 30 minutes en Tramway de ma maison. Pour m'y rendre, je dois : premièrement marcher pour prendre la 12 vers Belcours (environ 2 minutes), prendre la 12 jusqu'à Route de Vienne (10-15minutes), prendre le Tramway 2 vers Belair et arrêter à Université-Europe (environ 20-25 minutes). Le campus de Bron est quelque peu effrayant....certains bâtiments sont très récents comme le pavillon ... read more