Here is Week 3 BootsnAll’s Indie Travel Challenge: Have you ever studied or taken classes on a trip? What did you study, and perhaps more importantly, what did you learn while on that trip? What would you like to learn on your travels this year? I have been living abroad for a little over a … Continue reading »
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Break Free
Breaking Free [Demo] from Matador Network on Vimeo. I had to share this incredible and inspirational video I found during my daily reading of Matador. Enjoy.
French Summer= Rain for Days.
I am having quite a hard time believe that this is July. The July I am used to is full of BBQs and bikinis, not rain and jackets. Apparently, because we had such a good spring… we are paying for it now. That doesn’t make sense in my head but hey Ill let the French … Continue reading »
My Year in Numbers
Number of days spent in France: 366 Vaux sur Seine’s population vs San Diego’s: 4,000 vs 1,223,400 Miles between Southern California and Paris: 5,600 Number of countries visited: 7 Size of my very own place in Paris: 15 square meters Visits to the Prefecture: 10+ Average number of roses given to me in a night … Continue reading »
My Year in Review
Its official. One year ago today I was landing in Paris and running into the arms of the girl who helped me get here. I had no idea what was ahead of me and I definitely had no idea what I was getting myself into. I didn’t know that the best year was about to … Continue reading »
Silly Sorrows
“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.” ~Leo F. Buscaglia Life in France is strange. But I havent completely decided if that is France’s fault or the … Continue reading »
Well Hello Again World!!!!
Where have I been? Honestly. I do not know why I have not been writing. I think it is a combo between the fact I have been incredibly busy and that I no longer can use an American keyboard very easily (damn French taking over my brain). This is the disadvantage of living here… French … Continue reading »
May. The month of visitors.
A lot has changed recently. And it is all going fast. Mostly good changes and other inevitable changes. This month I moved into my new place. I seriously can’t believe that I have been here a month already but in a way it seems so mine that I feel like I have been here longer. … Continue reading »
Learning and Loving a Language
Now that my stay in France has turned slightly more permanent… as in I have no idea when and if I will ever leave… I have had this new take on French. To be honest I was lazy when I first moved here but that was because there was not much of a point to … Continue reading »
Happiness
It’s been ages since I have written and usually that only happens when I feel uninspired… but this time it’s because i have just been too busy living. That sounds weird or like i am bragging or like im too good for this blog, (doesn’t it??) That isn’t the case though. I have been in … Continue reading »
