I got up early today to go running. I’ve been running semi-regularly since arriving in France and the recent cold weather makes running difficult with my lungs – but the cool weather also makes it easier for me to go longer distances before giving in to exhaustion. Generally when I went running in the U.S., [...]
Archive for November, 2005
A Day in the Life – The Man in Black
Posted in France on November 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Thanksgiving
Posted in France on November 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
It started off simply enough. Five of us assistants from America (Sunshine, PGOAT, Moses, YAEB and myself) decided we should have a Thanksgiving dinner here in Dijon. We’d invite a few friends and the other American assistants, do our best to imitate an American Thanksgiving dinner and try to stave off the home sickness.
At some [...]
Le Suisse!
Posted in France, Travels on November 24, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
The PGOAT (note, not “the_pgoat” from Fark, but literally, the PGOAT that I have ever met) needed to take the Literature GRE exam. As it was being held in Geneva, Switzerland (a.k.a CH), several of us decided to join her. The co-conspirators were myself, Sunshine and the Aussie (and what do you call a boomerang [...]
I Have Bison Of…
Posted in France on November 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
While my students continue to say and write the funniest things (“During All Saints Week I did a camel!” or “We played volleyball on the b*tch.”), I discovered I have been making a huge error of my own.
In French, when one expresses a need to do something or have something, one says, “J’ai besoin de…” [...]
The Darcy Drunk
Posted in France on November 5, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Imagine this. It’s the first day I’m in Dijon. I’m at the city’s Arch, talking with three other assistants and one of the program administrators.
I hear someone singing, rather raspily and not very clearly, but obviously in French. I look up and this short Jamaican is walking towards us. He walks up to one of [...]
Multipass!!
Posted in France, Travels on November 3, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Ladies and gentlemen, your attention please. Thanks to the diligent work of Sushine and myself, the following internet flash songs have been unleashed upon France.
Banana Phone: This one went over quite well due to its catchy, oft repeated opening line, “Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring. Banana Phone!” There were, of course, some mispronounciations like, [...]
Odor – Part 2
Posted in France on November 1, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I got back from holiday yesterday afternoon, and there’s a few things I want to post about. However, as today is a French Holiday, and I can’t find anywhere to upload my pictures, I’ll have to wait.
I will share this, though. On the way from Nice to Paris, Sunshine and I had a table / [...]
