Day 40, February 9th, 2010
Day 40. I’ve been in this country for a month and a half, and my days are clearly numbered.
Today is my little sister’s birthday. She is turning nineteen. I’m still getting used to not being with her for her birthday every year, and it’s already been three years since we haven’t lived together. It’s strange growing up living in the room next to someone and then having to plan when you’ll get to see each other again after you both move out. At least we still have our summers, those haven’t been terminated just yet, and hopefully she’ll be able to visit me in Bordeaux come Spring.
I decided to change all of my classes today and began taking two more full-immersion courses instead of the lame grammar ones I was enrolled in… and yes, they are harder, but they are infinitely more interesting, and I figure that French expression will come more easily as time goes on, as I study more. Besides, I tend to perform better when I am challenged, and I’d rather get a poor grade knowing that I worked for it than receive a good one that I didn’t put out for.
I’m going to Paris this weekend for a rendez-vous avec petit ami and I cannot wait because it’s long over-due (the last time we physically saw each other was mid-October). Long distance is a bummer but I wouldn’t want to be with any other, and every time we come together it’s like exiting the universe and being born all over again.
I have a headache from the mass amounts of French today, and I’m about to dive into reading more Proust.
Bisous xx
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Day 39, February 8th, 2010
Today was my first day of true productivity. I figured I have only four more months here so I better get a move on! I went to la librarie Mollat and finally bought a bigger French-English dictionary, as well as a micro Larousse dictionnaire, an “Anti-faute d’anglais”, and a phrasebook. I also bought a massive book for my history course titled L’Italie Contemporaine, which covers Italian history from 1945 onward… so that should be exciting.
Discovered an adorable cafe, Les Mots Bleus, and I think I will continue studying there. Began reading Du côté de chez Swann par Marcel Proust avec un dictionnaire, and I’m supposed to have read 47 pages by tomorrow, but it took me about half an hour to get through two since the writing is so dense and lovely.
Thinking let alone writing in English becomes more and more jolted the more I get into the French side of studying. I guess come summer I’ll have to resurrect my skills so I can finish my first novel, but until then I’ll keep blogging to preserve what little eloquence I have left in this language, which I reckon is very little.
I really need to discover the shortcuts to the accent symbols, because copying/pasting all of them is so tedious that I tend to stick to French words without them, and the more French I think the harder it is to write in English…
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This is the dream. A little house right on the ocean where I will be happy. Hard wood floors, airy and filled with sweet music and love, please.
Built by my own two hands. Amen.
recently moved to Bordeaux
and will be residing en France
until just before the summer solstice.
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