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 | Leaving on a jet plane
2007-07-21, Toulouse, France. By: Lisa | | Hi everyone,
That's it - all done! My bags are packed, I've handed in my keys to both my appartment and the lab, I've said my goodbyes, and in about 5 hours I'll be on my way to the airport to lea... |
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| Crunch time!
2007-07-11, Toulouse, France. By: Lisa | | Hi everyone,
It sounds like things are a wee bit chilly in NZ at present, to put it mildly. I really hope you're safe and not slipping over and ending up in hospital down south with the black ice!... |
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 | Metro Line B
2007-06-30, Toulouse, France. By: Lisa | | Hi again,
Here's the latest news in Toulouse - Metro Line B is now open!! This is the city's 3rd (misnomer) metro line, and has been under construction for the last 3 years, and on Saturday it fin... |
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 | Summer solstice - Fete de la musique
2007-06-21, Toulouse, France. By: Lisa | | Just a quick one...
The night before I left Toulouse for the weekend in Lyon was the summer solstice, celebrated by 'Fete de la Musique' - festival of music. This is a city-wide music festival whe... |
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| Milestones
2007-06-21, Toulouse, France. By: Lisa | | Hi everyone,
I just realised that it's been almost two weeks since I last wrote an update - the time seems to have suddenly started going very quickly. Since the fete des velos i've experienced a ... |
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 | Fete des velos - Celebration of the noble bicycle
2007-06-09, Toulouse, France. By: Lisa | | Hello lovely poeple,
OK, so summer has arrived in earnest it would seem! I'm here at uni at 9pm on Saturday night (hmm - yes, so not too much social life tonight, but am working on my final Bible ... |
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 | Back 'home'
2007-06-05, Toulouse, France. By: Lisa | | Hello again,
Just a very brief few lines to let you all know that I made it back with no hitches from Belfast. This is the 3rd journal entry I've uploaded today, but they've got different dates to... |
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| Spontaneity
2007-05-29, Toulouse, France. By: Lisa | | Hi everyone,
As many of you have been saying to me, it's been quite a while since I last sent an update. This is for various reasons - mostly because things have been more down than up of late (bo... |
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| Dead bees :(
2007-05-14, Toulouse, France. By: Lisa | | Hi everybody,
I hope you are all well and safe wherever in the world you are. As my title would suggest I have had some mortalities in the lab today. Four in fact - the same number of wee bees th... |
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| The first days of summer...
2007-04-19, Toulouse, France. By: Lisa | | Hello again,
Yes, the warm weather is beginning! The sun came out yesterday about midday, and it got very warm, and has stayed that way ever since. Today its about 25 degreesC apparently, and lun... |
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 | Work begins :)
2007-04-17, Toulouse, France. By: Lisa | | Hello again,
Gosh - my head is swimming! Just had my first meeting with my supervisors, and goodness me I have a lot to learn and to take in!
Poof!
Braindead - just a little bit.
Thanks for... |
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 | First night in Toulouse
2007-04-12, Toulouse, France. By: Lisa | | NB. I wrote this before I had net connection, but posted it after my first update from the Uni.
Hi everyone,
Hooray – I made it to Toulouse! After about 50hours straight of travel, it was wond... |
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| Made it!
2007-04-16, Toulouse, France. By: Lisa | | Hi everybody!
well, I made it - hooray! I am writing this from the desk of Edith - a PhD student in the lab here, and I'm using a french keyboard which is a bit different to what I'm used to, so p... |
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 | starting point: the inspiration
2007-01-16, Toulouse, France. By: msfrance | | So, I guess I am due for an update yet again.
It has been a month now since I have been in Toulouse. It really has flown by – it feels more like two weeks. The last few weeks have gone by the fas... |
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 | Mais, c'est la France
2007-01-13, Toulouse, France. By: msfrance | | In France, the foreigners have a nice little saying for each time that something unusual and quite consistently avoidable happens. It goes like this: you step in dog shit that, for some reason, is l... |
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 | la fin de semaine (the weekend!)
2007-01-07, Toulouse, France. By: msfrance | | It's time for another post I think.
So, I find between the sort-of english I hear in class, and all the different kinds of english that I hear with the other exchange students, that my OWN english ... |
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 | Part Deux
2007-01-04, Toulouse, France. By: msfrance | | Bonjour.
It is about 7 at night here and I just finished 6 STRAIGHT hours of class. Classes are pretty easy; I was put in to the English stram. i had originally wanted to be in the French strean,... |
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 | worst...day...ever
2007-01-03, Toulouse, France. By: msfrance | | I am alive, in Toulouse, with my room and baggage (minus a sleeping bag that was randomly lost along the way); I went to my orientation session this morning and have classes this afternoon; but let me... |
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 | In the cloisters.
2006-06-19, Toulouse, France. By: doddsy | | Out and about in Toulouse. Visited Musee Des Augustins. Lovely cloisters and garden inside. Also had a variety of sculptures, paintings and gargoyles to view.
Had lunch [bought from Spar supermar... |
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 | Beer, chips and cats
2006-06-18, Toulouse, France. By: doddsy | | First day of trip. We had a good flight from Gatwick to Toulouse. Whilst waiting for our bags to appear on the conveyor belt we saw the bizarre sight of a cat box coming through the 'flaps' and turni... |
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 | 06-02 Where is Toulouse France?
2006-06-02, Toulouse, France. By: Drewby | | I had planned on taking 30 straight hours of train to meet Tim in Marseille. I made it through Portugal and half of France till I reached a booked section of rail travel. I locked my baggage in a lo... |
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| This is the life....
2005-06-10, Toulouse, France. By: greengirl | | shit. i just wrote a long wonderful update and deleted it on accident. im too jaded to rewrite it.
its beautiful here. the family is great fun (they are from england). ill upload photos tomorrow ma... |
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