Blogs from Besançon, Franche-Comté, France, Europe - page 6

It feels weird to be done with my homework by 9 pm on a Wednesday night. I usually reserve this night for frantically finishing tomorrow's homework that I put off, but right now, all I have to do is eat my nutella-filled cereal and leaf through the latest Glamour. But even though my immediate homework is finished, I still have a little nagging voice in the back of my mind telling me that I ought to get started on my project over the musical culture in Besancon. The thing is: It's HARD to do stuff in a different language. Take any task and multiply its difficulty level by about 6 and that's what you've got when you try to do it in french. I just cannot seem to bring myself to do research that requires me ... read more

It's springtime in France, and it's lovely. Granted, it's no 80 degree Nebraska weather, but I'll take 65. I really hope my parents get to see it. For those of you who don't know, my parents' travel plans have been put to a half after the passport processing station decided to get lazy, or maybe just really busy. So now, I might have to enjoy Paris and Normandy without them, which would be utterly tragic. But I have faith. I have a feeling that the passport god will come through and send them theirs by say, Wednesday. So everyone: Cross your fingers. I mean it. Cross them and keep them crossed. Since nothing out of the ordinary has been happening here, it's kind of hard for me to write a long blog entry. I could ... read more

Yesterday was an incredibly tiring day. I think it was the fault of a) the time change and being shorted one hour of sleep & b) actually doing something on a Sunday. Sundays are usually reserved for lying in bed and putting off homework. But yesterday I did stuff. I saw stuff. I made use of my day! My entire group traveled to the area of haut doubs, which is about an hour and a half from Besancon. First stop was an ancient castle. Unfotunately, this ancient castle truly was ancient and therefore had no central heating. As it figures, I decided to leave my boots at home and wear my converse; this was an incredibly bad decisions because my feet proceeded to be wet and cold for about 3/4 of the day. I'm surprised ... read more

This is bad a sign. I'm sitting here eating peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon. I just finished a sandwich and I'm about to get the gallette I bought yesterday. And you know what this means? It means the weather is changing - for the worse. Just yesterday it was sunny and 60 degrees. And now: cold and rainy with flurries on the way. When it gets crappy outside, all I want to do is watch movies and eat food. Of course I could always do my homework when I'm indoors, but that takes too much effort. Stuffing peanut butter into my mouth is far easier and far more pleasurable. So that's exactly what I'm doing. And that's exactly what I intend to do for the rest of my day. Well, maybe minus ... read more

So I'm getting back into the swing of things in Besancon. I went grocery shopping, did my homework, went for a half-hearted run. Things are looking up now that the sun is out and it's 65 degrees. Good weather can do wonders for a person's outlook. The weather is great, but the best news of all is that I have internet in the dorms now!!! I got back and my friend Heather informed me that we've had internet capabilities the ENTIRE time; we were just too stupid to plug in an ethernet cord and try it out. But the internet is a double-edged sword: while it does help me accomplish many things, it also distracts me from accomplishing many things; unfortunately, the latter happens more often than the former. Today has been a productive day so ... read more