January 2010
15 posts
“…we think we have chosen our peers… But for a Christian, there are,...”
– Clive Staples Lewis, The Four Loves
Love to all my friends (especially you, Miss Becca Mann, my loyal blog reader)
just some snippets of life
Today on my walk back from the University, I stopped at a little store to look for some real hair conditioner. This stuff is really hard to find. I’m beginning to think that the secret to French hair is skipping the “apres-shampooing.” Anyway, I’m in the store and I turn around and there is this short elderly French woman staring up at me. She says to me in slow French...
Today at my host brother’s scout dinner a Frenchman told me in English that I should be taking Spanish because it’s more practical in the United States.
le chomage et le chauffage
Last night I was eating dinner with my host family, and accidentally asked my host mom if I should stop the “unemployment” (le chomage) when I leave my room. Unfortunately I meant to talk about the heating system (le chauffage), but she quickly corrected me and we had a good laugh. I will never make that mistake again, but I am afraid there are still thousands of mistakes for me to...
“I also can’t remember… are you 6 hours ahead or 6 hours behind me?”
– Corinne Porowski via gmail
Hi I don't like blogging
I don’t like the idea of putting my words on the internet, but I will get over it and hopefully Rachel won’t tell me I’m being dramatic like she usually does. I leave to study in France on Monday and will be in Montpellier on Tuesday around noon! My host family will be picking me up (at least that’s what I was told), and I will soon have two younger brothers, ages 10 and 13, and a new mom....
“The last thing we want is to make everywhere else just like our own home. It...”
– Clive Staples Lewis, The Four Loves
“‘T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order...”
– Tennyson