 | Carnaval!!
2006-02-19, Nice, France. By: JennyS | | After an exciting weekend in Torino, what else is one gonna do but go to a parade for Carnaval in Nice? hehehe The parade was really cool, there were these floats made out of paper maché satiring all ... |
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| Bowling!!!!
2006-02-15, Cannes, France. By: JennyS | | Yay for Bowling with AIFS group in the afternoon!!! But first, I had to suffer thru one of the most awkward lunches of my life. One of the lunch ladies made me sit at a table with all these Italian gi... |
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| Normal Day
2006-02-16, Cannes, France. By: JennyS | | Thursday was a pretty average day in Cannes. Class in the morning, we did some role playing, so that was cool. Off to the mediateque after lunch. Chillin out and doing some hw.
The only thing slig... |
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| Happy Valentines Day!!!
2006-02-14, Cannes, France. By: JennyS | | Valentines in France, sounds like a plot for a movie, no? Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately depending on how you look at it) there was no romance for Jenny this Valentines Day, but I think that I su... |
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| sometimes i can be pathetic even in France
2006-02-13, Cannes, France. By: JennyS | | This was a day for bumming around and doing just about nothhing. The weather was cold and icky outside, so neither Rachael nor I really wanted to go out much. Instead, we discovered all the ways that ... |
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| Chilling out in Cannes
2006-02-11, Cannes, France. By: JennyS | | Ah the weekend!!! Time for sleeping in and a wonderful meal we like to call brunch. Can anyone say Nutella?!
After eating, Rachel and I paid a visit to the mediateque (our first) for some free inte... |
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| Antibes and Biot
2006-02-10, Antibes, France. By: JennyS | | First friday in Cannes!!! Yay! Also our first real excursion. We visited two local towns, Biot and Antibes.
Biot is famous for its glass blowing. We got to see the artists at work and look at some ... |
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| Belt Shopping
2006-02-09, Cannes, France. By: JennyS | | Another day without a ton of activity. However, I had come to the conclusion that my new pair of jeans were just too big, so I needed to buy a belt. And as my roommate is obsessed with belts, it seeme... |
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| Cooking School
2006-02-08, Cannes, France. By: JennyS | | So first Wed iin Cannes did not yeild a ton of excitement. Classes and such are beginning to become routine. There were three things worth noting, however. First we went to the post office to buy stam... |
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| First Day of Classes
2006-02-07, Cannes, France. By: JennyS | | So Tuesday morning marked the beginning of classes in France. It was mostly an unremarkable day, except that my three hour french class was entirely in french! Ah!!! It was a bit overwhelming, but as ... |
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 | a few days in Paris
2006-02-12, Paris, France. By: samkateb | | While we were still unemployment & homeless thought it would be a great opportunity to go to Paris for a few nights.
We travelled by Eurostar to Paris for a nice break & see the sights. We stayed ne... |
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 | Aah Guadeloupe
2006-02-16, Abymes, France. By: averyreven | | i was just watching tv and they have coverage of the carnaval parade (that i missed) on sunday. i was in one town with my group where there were only 2 other groups and everyone else in guadeloupe was... |
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 | (L) Off to Madagascar!
2005-12-28, Paris, France. By: Larry_suzi | | Well, today is the day we leave for Madagascar.
The day didn't start off that great. I woke up really early this morning (5 am) feeling miserable. I think it had something to do with the salmon... |
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| Evaluation day
2006-02-06, Cannes, France. By: JennyS | | Monday morning we had our french placement exam. I really didn't know much on it, but that's ok with me, I want easy classes this semester! The part that probably went best was the oral, go figure...
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| A Day of Walking
2006-02-05, Cannes, France. By: JennyS | | First full day in france included a lot of walking around. After sleeping in very late, I joined a group seeking out the mediateque (free internet). After that we explored some of the side streets and... |
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 | Carnavale!
2006-02-15, Nice, France. By: jeccojade | | hello people! please dont mind the occasional spelling errors, these french keyboards are such a pain!
so we arrived in nice, france this morning and have been running around the city ever since! ... |
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| a new home...
2006-02-04, Cannes, France. By: JennyS | | Saturday was crazy. We got up early, packed up, ate breakfast and left for the airport. Our group literally took over the Heathrow airport check-in. It was so weird, they didn't have a gate for our fl... |
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 | Le Weekend
2006-02-04, Fougeres, France. By: elissa | | hiya everyone!
Hows it all going???
Its pretty good on this side of the world!!! Ive got two weeks of holidays in a week; skiing in the french alps here i come! The Lecaux's own a holiday hous... |
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| 1 February 06
2006-02-01, Fougeres, France. By: elissa | | hope you guys are having fun in oz, 'cause im lovin' it here!!! I still miss you guys heaps though!!
If any of you have read my blog lately, it informs about the slight hiccups with the Lecaux's; ... |
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| Finally; I got a host family!
2006-01-31, Fougeres, France. By: elissa | | Finally. The time has come at last for some unfortunate family to actually want to have an aussie chik like me!!! Luckily, the Lecaux family of, 7 Rue de L'aiguillon, 35733 Lerouse, FRANCE, who I stay... |
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| The end of my first week in FRANCE!!!!!
2006-01-28, Fougeres, France. By: elissa | | Hey everyone!
Thanx for leaving comments; keeps me up with your news as well!!!
The situation with my first host family is pretty uncertain at the moment, which most people would gawk at, but ... |
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| My first REAL day in a french school!!!!!!
2006-01-26, Fougeres, France. By: elissa | | Well, today has been a very, very long day for me; Ive been up since 6.45am for the bus, & now its about 10pm!
To start the day well, NOT, I didnt know what bus to get on, as my directions from Je... |
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| Into Fougeres, BY OURSELVES!!!!!!!!!!
2006-01-24, Fougeres, France. By: elissa | | dear all,
having fun here, as always! hows lovely shepp? the weather? Here its been an average of about
3°C.
Went into Fougers with sarah today for lunch, BY OURSELVES! Big step for us as we had ... |
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| My third day
2006-01-23, Fougeres, France. By: elissa | | well, im still stuffed as eva! im trying to get into the right time zone, but its hard when u wake up at like 5 in the morning here, thinkingf that its lunch time????!!!!!! CRAZY!
Today I was kindl... |
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| By the way...
2006-01-22, Fougeres, France. By: elissa | | By the way Mum, if youre readiong this, I probably could of taken those few extra jumpers with me; some people got away with having 32kg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P.S. For all those who didnt know, the toil... |
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