Entries Tagged as 'France'

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

reverse culture shock

This afternoon, Brett and I visited our friend Kevin’s moped shop, where Brett picked up a new spark plug boot and we hung out with Kevin and our friend Tim.
While we were there, a guy walked past the back door. I heard him start to walk by, and just after my mind registered that he [...]

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

Home again.

How can I even begin to condense my month-long trip into a blog post or two? How can I choose which photos to post from among the nearly 500 I took? How can I adequately convey the experience of being in French culture?
I don’t know the answers to those questions right now. I’m exhausted (my [...]

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

Pictures!!!

Finally!! Here is a link to my Flickr site, where I’ve put a bunch of photos from the France trip. Please visit, comment, enjoy.
I will try to add some more soon — Brett has 2 more CDs full of photos at home with him…so we’ll try to put them on as soon as possible.
Sorry I’ve [...]

Friday, July 28th, 2006

EN FRANCE!

Hello from France!
I am sorry I haven’t posted much. Access to the internet has not been easy to get…and it is expensive when I do get on line.
Also; I haven’t been able to upload photos to the internet either because of the programs here, but Brett went home yesterday and he will upload about 200 [...]

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

There’s a lot I could tell here: about our trip down to Portland last weekend, about hanging out with our friends Steve, Carmen and Giles over the Fourth, about our temp jobs, about all the books I’ve been reading, about the amazing moped rides we’ve been going on…
All of that is to say that I [...]

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

a plea

I think most everyone knows by now that I’m going to France this summer, as a staff member on a trip with SPU. (For those of you who don’t know, it’s a month long, from July 12 to August 15. The first half of that is spent in Honfleur, in Normandy, and the second half [...]

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Random thoughts for the day

– I love my iPod. I would not be able to focus and finish the story I’m working on right now if I couldn’t just put my music on (currently, it’s a compilation of Team Strike Force songs) and block out the rest of the world.
– Big things are happening in my life, exciting things. [...]