< ok so I was really curious about all of these fountains that they have around here? I mean, where does the water come from and where is it going and why is it here? Cotton eyed joe? Anyway, so I drank some because it look really nice and I was really thirsty and it tasted like bottled water and it was so cold and I hope I don’t die, but dang that was good water.
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I Remembered My Camera
dOllie/Kivilcim/whatever-your-name-is-this-is-so-confusing, since Christophe is always away, you should totes teach me French so that I can make friends and give directions to people. I can’t talk to anyone because I’m terrified of people and also I can’t speak French. All day I was trying to remember my French 1 stuff, but all that I could remember was Swedish and bits of Spanish and it was incredibly frustrating. ALSO, twice (count ’em. one, two.) someone pulled over and asked me in French where something was. I guess I didn’t look super touristy because I wasn’t wearing winter clothes and my camera was in my back pocket, but honestly, I look like I’m twelve, do you really think I know where anything is? No, I don’t,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umJl8t7G0q8 < this is all I could think of while I walked through this
Don’t mind my voice and the fact that I can’t remember the lyrics in that last video. I just wanted to show you guys how amazing the acoustics in that church were! Every other building in my city back in the States is a church, but none of them sound like that because they’re all “modern” and have “heating” and “other commodities older churches don’t have” yeah yeah yeah, okay, but does it echo when I whisper? No. I don’t mind sweating through a church service if it sounds cool when we sing. I mean, we’re Lutheran. All we do is sing. I feel like that should be taken into account whilst building Lutheran churches. The second part of the video is for Jenna because she really wanted to go on a *~European Adventure~* but everything I’ve encountered so far hasn’t been quite what I was expecting to see on a *~European Adventure~* until today. I just wanted to check if our headcanons matched up. So, Jenna? What do you think? Florida or Quebec City? 😉
Here’s a Video
hon-hon-hon, bonjour de France
ok, now that I’ve got that out of the way. I’m in France, you guys. Like FRANCE, France. Not some French city like Fond du Lac or Eau Claire. Like, the real deal where people kiss with their tongue and fry their potatoes and grill their toast with eggs and cinnamon. Okay?
I know it’s dumb, but every French book I’ve ever had was published in the mid 1980’s, and I guess I had some delusions that French people were very 1980’s-ish and they’re not. I’m a little put-off, and I’m not entirely sure that I’m ACTUALLY in France because of it.
And then today I went for a little walk, but forgot my camera. This is the first time in weeks I’ve had so much sun, and my body went into shock halfway through the walk so I had to come home and lay down to get rid of my stupid sun headache. Tips From Kate: BRING YOUR SUNGLASSES IF YOU GO OUTSIDE, YOU GOOSE!
Later I felt guilty about not going skiing or being outside for long because everyone else is getting fit and I’ve kinda been skipping on the EuroTour fitness thing I promised Hannah I would do, so I did sit ups until I wanted to throw up and then I did some lunges. Probably none of you care about this, but I just wanted to go on record saying that I DID DO SOMETHING WITH MY DAY, OKAY? I DIDN’T SPEND THE ENTIRE TIME WATCHING CHRISTMAS ROM-COMS. OKAY? OKAAAAY? I’ll do more tomorrow. I’ll build a giant snowman or something.
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On the 23rd I’m leaving for France to go skiing in the Alps??????????????????????????????????
I stole all of these photos off of the tags #charmonix and #argentiere on instagram so that you wouldn’t have to google it yourself.
Obviously, I won’t be skiing. There area we’re in is pretty advanced and I can barely do the bunny hills without killing myself. I think I’ll spend my week sledding and writing and taking walks. France you guys. France. Dang. This is so surreal.