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wave that hair!! (i just had to show you this dwarf species of a horse; her name is Caramel, i believe)
buds.
amazing how moss can be so beautiful.
blossoms.
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buds.
amazing how moss can be so beautiful.
blossoms.
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9.4.10
97. shopaholic? shopaphobic.
so i just came back from a day at the mall with my host sister & her friend. bof...
i don't know what it is with me but i don't really enjoy it. there's just nothing that really interests me & the rare article that does? well, the prices aren't exactly accomodating & i refuse to buy something if i don't really love it. so it ends up kind of depressing in a way.
on one hand, my host sister doesn't know how to not spend, so she totalled a whopping 115£ where as i spent a measly 5£. & it wasn't even for me...
last weekend, my mamie gave me 40£ so that i could buy myself a bag. my host sisters had went shopping with her for the day while i cooked chinese food for the family & they both came back with really nice purses. mamie considers me as her granddaughter too so she thought that i deserved a bag. it's really nice of her but i just don't think i can spend it. so what do it do? is it right for me to just keep the money & spend it on something i actually want? i'm not a huge bag person & ESPECIALLY not if it's made out of some crappy synthetic leather that makes me nautious whenever i take a whiff. bleugh.
i'm so freaking sick of my clothes. i brought 5 pairs of jeans with me when i came & i'm surviving on 2. 2 are too small & 1 is ripped at the crotch. & the 2 i'm living on are both too big. all my clothes are breaking down & i have nothing to wear for the summer. the only good thing i can think of is the fact that bringing less clothes back home means i just might make it into stuffing everything into my luggage. that's all.
i also have no summer shoes, even though i brought 7 pairs with me (1 nike running shoes, 2 tennis shoes, 1 flats, 1 boots, 1 flip flops & 1 heels)
help me.
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i don't know what it is with me but i don't really enjoy it. there's just nothing that really interests me & the rare article that does? well, the prices aren't exactly accomodating & i refuse to buy something if i don't really love it. so it ends up kind of depressing in a way.
on one hand, my host sister doesn't know how to not spend, so she totalled a whopping 115£ where as i spent a measly 5£. & it wasn't even for me...
last weekend, my mamie gave me 40£ so that i could buy myself a bag. my host sisters had went shopping with her for the day while i cooked chinese food for the family & they both came back with really nice purses. mamie considers me as her granddaughter too so she thought that i deserved a bag. it's really nice of her but i just don't think i can spend it. so what do it do? is it right for me to just keep the money & spend it on something i actually want? i'm not a huge bag person & ESPECIALLY not if it's made out of some crappy synthetic leather that makes me nautious whenever i take a whiff. bleugh.
i'm so freaking sick of my clothes. i brought 5 pairs of jeans with me when i came & i'm surviving on 2. 2 are too small & 1 is ripped at the crotch. & the 2 i'm living on are both too big. all my clothes are breaking down & i have nothing to wear for the summer. the only good thing i can think of is the fact that bringing less clothes back home means i just might make it into stuffing everything into my luggage. that's all.
i also have no summer shoes, even though i brought 7 pairs with me (1 nike running shoes, 2 tennis shoes, 1 flats, 1 boots, 1 flip flops & 1 heels)
help me.
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5.4.10
96. Quick Update
just random updates; whatever comes to mind...
-cooked a chinese meal for my host family. in france, in general, you're guilty til proven innocent so everyone was very very skeptical about my cooking skills. luckily, the pressure usually helps you succeed & if you prove them wrong, all the better for you. i cooked for 10 & it turned out not so bad, if i may say so myself.
-it's easter weekend & taking things easy. plus, i'm on vacation for two weeks. the weather is beautiful today & i spent the last 3h playing tarot with host parents & host papi. a freaking joy.
-my sis is in ny this week
-i'm obsessing over university stuff & i'm loving it!!! just repeated reading my course descriptions & trying to figure out the credits & such.
-watching gossip girl at night, which is a show i gave up not even half way into the first season cause it was too pretentious fake & i had too much work last year. but this year, i have the dvds & no school for a while so rather tempting
-i really hope that i study well these two weeks, you know, in prep for the bac.
-i also love buzz, which i play a lot of. it's like who wants to be a millionare that you play against friends & family (or ennemies?) with good questions that only repeat if you play as much as i do. the "gameshow host" even said yesterday "it wouldn't be buzz without you" cause i play so much
end of quick update.
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-cooked a chinese meal for my host family. in france, in general, you're guilty til proven innocent so everyone was very very skeptical about my cooking skills. luckily, the pressure usually helps you succeed & if you prove them wrong, all the better for you. i cooked for 10 & it turned out not so bad, if i may say so myself.
-it's easter weekend & taking things easy. plus, i'm on vacation for two weeks. the weather is beautiful today & i spent the last 3h playing tarot with host parents & host papi. a freaking joy.
-my sis is in ny this week
-i'm obsessing over university stuff & i'm loving it!!! just repeated reading my course descriptions & trying to figure out the credits & such.
-watching gossip girl at night, which is a show i gave up not even half way into the first season cause it was too pretentious fake & i had too much work last year. but this year, i have the dvds & no school for a while so rather tempting
-i really hope that i study well these two weeks, you know, in prep for the bac.
-i also love buzz, which i play a lot of. it's like who wants to be a millionare that you play against friends & family (or ennemies?) with good questions that only repeat if you play as much as i do. the "gameshow host" even said yesterday "it wouldn't be buzz without you" cause i play so much
end of quick update.
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3.4.10
24.3.10
94. Living it up in spring
So the weather just doesn't seem to disappoint; it makes life such a pleasure.
Last week, I went to eat kebab with the twins (Thursday cause we didn't have sport) & may I say it was delicious!! 8/10. We sat on la pelouse by the Hippodrôme, which is where the horses race. I didn't speak for 10 minutes straight because I was so engulfed in my eating experience.
I also really want to tell you about my math teacher, whom I don't think I'll ever forget & it hurts me to think that I only get to be taught by her for one year. It actually sucks.
First of all, she is THE teacher. Ever since I was little, I've had this image of a teacher, and she is it. She's in her late fifties, I would guess, with not a strand of grey hair & you can tell that she doesn't colour her hair. Plus, she against all that fake stuff. She's got pin-straight thin brown hair & I mean PIN STRAIGHT. Plus, she's in the best shape someone her age could be (from what I can see, at least), mostly because she is freaking ENTHOUSIASTIC, which is a very big understatement. It's crazy how much she loves math & loves trying to make us understand. She gets so excited about Pascal's triangle and intégration par parties. & the thing is, I completely understand where she's coming from. I'm just as crazy about theorems and such, but evermore so because of her.
Her class is taught at the HIGHEST DECIBLE-BLE-BLe-Ble-ble...!!! & my host mom calls her the TGV (train à grande vitesse; super fast European transportation system). We are speeding through the year's curriculum but it's still all so interesting!!! I realize that not everyone in my class can agree with me, since math has one of the lowest class averages but I'm positive that no one can deny that she's an AMAZING teacher.
She's got the knowledge of her work down packed & knows everything perfectly forwards & backwards. She's never made a mistake on a problem but occasionally makes a little calculation error if it's last period. Furthermore, she's respected, controls the class without control, laughs at people's stupid comments (unlike some other teacher), laughs at silliness but is usually serious. She's very organized yet laid back, & when she's in the zone, she is IN THE ZONE. Math makes her go & go & if you don't follow, tough luck.
Last thing, unlike some other teachers ':/ , she actually appreciates the fact that I'm foreign & that I have different things to bring to the table. Thank. You! Plus, sometimes, she gives us a brief history course (math history, of course) or shows us her (ancient) calculators or the "old way of doing things". Plus again, she's the oldest of all my teachers & yet the most knowlegeable with computers, which she taught herself how to use. She's open-minded & invites new technology & encourages us to be curious & go forward. Heck, she teaches using computer programs; I don't think ANY other teacher in the lycée does that.
She doesn't make me want to drop Food Sci but she surely makes me want to pursure math.
Here's to Mme Lefèvre. :P
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Last week, I went to eat kebab with the twins (Thursday cause we didn't have sport) & may I say it was delicious!! 8/10. We sat on la pelouse by the Hippodrôme, which is where the horses race. I didn't speak for 10 minutes straight because I was so engulfed in my eating experience.
I also really want to tell you about my math teacher, whom I don't think I'll ever forget & it hurts me to think that I only get to be taught by her for one year. It actually sucks.
First of all, she is THE teacher. Ever since I was little, I've had this image of a teacher, and she is it. She's in her late fifties, I would guess, with not a strand of grey hair & you can tell that she doesn't colour her hair. Plus, she against all that fake stuff. She's got pin-straight thin brown hair & I mean PIN STRAIGHT. Plus, she's in the best shape someone her age could be (from what I can see, at least), mostly because she is freaking ENTHOUSIASTIC, which is a very big understatement. It's crazy how much she loves math & loves trying to make us understand. She gets so excited about Pascal's triangle and intégration par parties. & the thing is, I completely understand where she's coming from. I'm just as crazy about theorems and such, but evermore so because of her.
Her class is taught at the HIGHEST DECIBLE-BLE-BLe-Ble-ble...!!! & my host mom calls her the TGV (train à grande vitesse; super fast European transportation system). We are speeding through the year's curriculum but it's still all so interesting!!! I realize that not everyone in my class can agree with me, since math has one of the lowest class averages but I'm positive that no one can deny that she's an AMAZING teacher.
She's got the knowledge of her work down packed & knows everything perfectly forwards & backwards. She's never made a mistake on a problem but occasionally makes a little calculation error if it's last period. Furthermore, she's respected, controls the class without control, laughs at people's stupid comments (unlike some other teacher), laughs at silliness but is usually serious. She's very organized yet laid back, & when she's in the zone, she is IN THE ZONE. Math makes her go & go & if you don't follow, tough luck.
Last thing, unlike some other teachers ':/ , she actually appreciates the fact that I'm foreign & that I have different things to bring to the table. Thank. You! Plus, sometimes, she gives us a brief history course (math history, of course) or shows us her (ancient) calculators or the "old way of doing things". Plus again, she's the oldest of all my teachers & yet the most knowlegeable with computers, which she taught herself how to use. She's open-minded & invites new technology & encourages us to be curious & go forward. Heck, she teaches using computer programs; I don't think ANY other teacher in the lycée does that.
She doesn't make me want to drop Food Sci but she surely makes me want to pursure math.
Here's to Mme Lefèvre. :P
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