 | Off to Marseilles...... (pause)......... NOT!!!!!
2007-09-16, Avignon, France. By: elimatt | | As I said in the last entry, this trip would allow us to experience one of the benefits of the way we had organised our holiday.
We left Lyon with the idea of spending a night in Marseilles before ... |
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 | mom in france
2006-07-30, Avignon, France. By: franley | | Yes, that's right, mom made it. And just in time for her arrival, the weather got really nice. I mean, we have a breeze during the day and the temperature actually drops some at night. So hooray fo... |
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| almost there!
2006-07-27, Avignon, France. By: franley | | Welp, tomorrow is the last day of the program. It's been fun, but let's all take a quick second to breathe a big sigh of relief...AHHHHHHHHHH
I spent all day yesterday working on the most painful ... |
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| Can't think of a good title
2006-07-25, Avignon, France. By: franley | | SOOOOO, for those of you who have been extremely worried about the status of my paper, I started today. But it's painful and I didn't get very far. I hate writing papers in English..and the fact tha... |
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| weekend and random
2006-07-24, Avignon, France. By: franley | | My weekend was kindof blah..I know, I hate to admit that, but it really wasn't bad, just not too exciting.
Friday night, I stayed in reading some stuff for class and working on some stuff (because ... |
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| grosses boules
2006-07-21, Avignon, France. By: franley | | Yesterday afternoon, I went to visit the Pont d'Avignon with my phonetics class (not really enough to see to warrant the 3.30 entrance fee). AAAAAAAND, we sang the song, danced a little, and did craz... |
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| Bob's Texas Style chips
2006-07-20, Avignon, France. By: franley | | Before I start detailing my past couple of days, I have to tell about the LOVELY packages I've received lately. Miss Susan Land did send me a nice package today, complete with Jalapeno potato chips, ... |
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| Pas de culture sans Droits
2006-07-18, Avignon, France. By: franley | | I had an interesting theater experience last night. As a group, we had tickets to see a performance in the courtyard of the Pope's Palace, which is the most posh theater in town supposedly. Anyway, ... |
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| alps adventure - food
2006-07-18, Avignon, France. By: franley | | Alright, back to the saga. And this time, to the food!
We ate nothing on Thursday night because we were stuck on a train. No, scratch that, we ate the chocolate cookies that Elizabeth's host mothe... |
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| alps adventure - Annecy
2006-07-17, Avignon, France. By: franley | | We hopped on the train around 5 in the afternoon, headed to Annecy. Our train was late again, as usual, but when we arrived in Annecy, our hotel was no more than 3 minutes away and there was actually... |
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| alps adventure - Chamonix
2006-07-17, Avignon, France. By: franley | | So we took off on Thursday. As expected, our train from Avignon was 40 minutes late, so we had to sprint to make our connection in Lyon. Then our train to Chamonix got stopped in the middle of nowhe... |
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| alps adventure- intro
2006-07-17, Avignon, France. By: franley | | I'm going to post my weekend trip in several chapters, if you will, because it's going to be quite long and I don't want you all to have to read everything. This way you can choose based on the headi... |
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 | My Birthday!
2006-06-23, Avignon, France. By: npexton | | As I’m discovering, birthdays are really a celebration of the familiar, so having one in a foreign country without any close friends is a different experience for me. Of course I let all the other Ame... |
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| p.s.
2006-07-13, Avignon, France. By: franley | | I can't currently log on to neo so that will have to wait until monday as well..hopefully none of you wrote me important emails.
And, Vince, you can just go ahead and tell me who you are and stop l... |
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| heading out!
2006-07-13, Avignon, France. By: franley | | Just a quick little message before i leave to go to the fabulous alps.
So apparently they lied to me at the ticket office on Tuesday about that play. i was walking back from across the river wher... |
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| it's strange, but...
2006-07-12, Avignon, France. By: franley | | kids' cartoons in French are incredibly difficult to understand. I don't know why.
So, today since I didn't have class and it's like a billion degrees outside I opted to sleep in late and watch ca... |
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| today's news = no news
2006-07-11, Avignon, France. By: franley | | Thank you to everyone who has sent me emails. I haven't gotten the opportunity to write everyone back, but it is so nice to hear from you! And thank you for the spelling corrections...you know with t... |
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| what a way to end it all...
2006-07-10, Avignon, France. By: franley | | Did you see Zidane head butt that guy? What a way to end your career and the world cup 2006, huh?
The world cup experience was interesting. Once in a lifetime, I suppose! We went to this large... |
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| no subject
2006-07-09, Avignon, France. By: franley | | Well, there is finally something a bit more interesting to report. Sorry for those of you that thought I had died or something. There just isn't that much to say every single day (mother...)
Yest... |
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| festival!
2006-07-06, Avignon, France. By: franley | | The theater festival has officially started. There are posters EVERYWHERE and actors running around in costumes, passing out flyers to market their plays. There are over 800 acting companies perform... |
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| it's a very important day because...
2006-07-05, Avignon, France. By: franley | | the nationwide month-long sales started!!!
yes, that's right..every store, every item, one month. Talk about a distraction from working on my schoolwork!
the song of the day was the theme from ... |
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| croc-mcdo
2006-07-04, Avignon, France. By: franley | | well, it's true. I let some people talk me into eating McDonald's in honor of the 4th of July. Everyone was insisting that it is completely different and better here, even my host mother. And why n... |
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| happy 4th!
2006-07-04, Avignon, France. By: franley | | When I went to sleep last night, my room was an astonishing 89.5 deg. F and I woke up to a so cool 87 deg. talk about a restful night's sleep!
I have been having dreams in French....wierd.
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| weekend adventures
2006-07-03, Avignon, France. By: franley | | Hello all!
Friday was spent trying to book train tickets to Venice for a 3 day weekend. It's going to be too hard to get there, so I think we're going to Geneva instead. I like that idea better b... |
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| again...
2006-06-28, Avignon, France. By: franley | | Note: for those of you who are wondering, "why so much food?", I will tell you that it is because that is the only request that my dad made of my before my trip - that I put lots on here about food. ... |
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| more food..
2006-06-27, Avignon, France. By: franley | | I had my second real-live french dinner last night. We went to this couple's house that is farther out in the suburbs. It was really beautiful. And I met new french people and spoke a lot, but most ... |
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| p.s.
2006-06-26, Avignon, France. By: franley | | I am taking lots of pictures..but they are on my camera and i'm not sure if i can retrieve them on this computer without losing them forever. so it may have to wait a little but i'll try to get some ... |
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| lots and lots of fraises
2006-06-26, Avignon, France. By: franley | | il y a 4 days, a friend of Francois and Yukiko, Monique, brought over about 3 kilos of freshly picked strawberries. yes, i know. yum. We ate lots. The French really stress the importance of eating... |
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| on ne sait jamais
2006-06-25, Avignon, France. By: franley | | ..that's a phrase i've been hearing alot around here..it means "you knever know". pretty fitting for a week where lots of random surprising things happened.
Well first of all, it must be said...my... |
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| fete de la musique
2006-06-22, Avignon, France. By: franley | | Well, yesterday was the fete de la musique. Starting around 10 in the morning, there were concerts all over town..for free! In the morning/afternoon there was a lot of classical stuff: organ and ch... |
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| The First Day of Class
2006-06-21, Avignon, France. By: npexton | | French is infiltrating my brain and I have nothing to show for it except headaches, poorly constructed sentences, and an inability to speak any language correctly. Taking classes and living with a ... |
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| un petit mot sur la nourriture
2006-06-20, Avignon, France. By: franley | | Hello!
I know, I know..I'm not being as diligent to update as I said I would. Well, it's just that I have no desire to sit in an internet cafe for an hour of my life every day. Surprisingly enoug... |
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| Avignon: The Host Family
2006-06-17, Avignon, France. By: npexton | | Today was the day I left my parents and started my journey alone in Avignon. It has been a somewhat draining day, both linguistically and emotionally, but I’m happy to be here. My hosts, Alain an... |
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| Bienvenue!
2006-06-16, Avignon, France. By: franley | | bonjour, mes amis!
Well, I finally made it here. I'll try to tell every little detail but it is taking me forever to type on this foreign keyboard, so if i stqrt substituing so,e letters qnd leqvi... |
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 | Whose that Famous Guy?
2005-06-16, Avignon, France. By: Haytonsj | | Apparently, it's Scott!!!
On our day trip to Avignon today, a very strange thing happened some girl, maybe 12/13 came up to scott out of nowhere and in a very shy, excited way asked if she could tak... |
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