I wish I had time to write!
Alas, finals period is -- for the first time this semester -- forcing me to put work before other indulgences, including updating my blog! Ah!
I do, however, have some links to offer for those interested in seeing some pictures of life as late, fun-packed and french style...
So what have I been up to this last month or so?
Well... Two weeks of France vacationing with Martina followed by a rather
insane week of turning in dossiers and sytheses (the bane of my existence) which
then lead into a 24 hours visit to the Champagne region with the Lewis & Clark
group and concluded with an amazing 24 hours fulfilling my "Village Project"
learning about goat farming, cheese making, and small town partying in a small
village in southern Alsace...
Suffice it to say, I've been simply saturated with amazing sights and wonderful
encounters... and just when I want to recount them all to any interested
parties, I have to begin studying for final exams! Ack! Hence my lack of blog
updates and the absence of captions/explanations for two of the following three
photo albums. I hope you can forgive me and perhaps think up creative captions
on your own... I usually put photos in chronological order, with some sort of
story behind each one. So if a photo seems completely random and out-of-place,
known that somewhere, somehow, it DOES make sense!
So... without further hesitation:
Melia's two week tromp around western/northern France! (links have been edited so as not to lead to canadian beer shindig!)
Album #1: Paris, My 21st birthday!, La Rochelle, Ile de Re
http://lclark.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2004536&l=a979b&id=31600135
Album #2: La Rochelle, Dinan, Saint-Malo, Mont-Saint-Michel
http://lclark.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2004538&l=36bc9&id=31600135
And the subtitled album... Goat farms and village parties!
http://lclark.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2004808&l=96715&id=31600135
enjoy!
P.S. My newly-discovered potential post-college-before-grad-school thought? Goat Farm Intern!
I remember hearing about folks who would head to New Zealand to work on eco-friendly (known as “Bio” here in france) sheep farms after high school as an interum step before college. I never really understood the draw... it always just seemed a bit of a random choice. Now, however, my eyes have been openned, and the friendly nuzzles of goat muzzles is hard-pressed to leave the forefront of my mind. Finals? Bah! What’s a couple (aka. 9) exams up against a hundred or so milk-laden she-goats with names like “Patati”, “Oh Suzanna”, and “Vodka”? Add to that an all-night village birthday party under the stars, equipped with BBQ’d Alsacian sausages (soooo good!), improvising musicians, good quality wine and village-made eaux-de-vie (spirits) in un-ending quantities, and dancing till 4 am to one of the best sets of ecclectic music I’ve heard in a long time... pretty much one of the most awesome experiences of a lifetime!
I do, however, have some links to offer for those interested in seeing some pictures of life as late, fun-packed and french style...
So what have I been up to this last month or so?
Well... Two weeks of France vacationing with Martina followed by a rather
insane week of turning in dossiers and sytheses (the bane of my existence) which
then lead into a 24 hours visit to the Champagne region with the Lewis & Clark
group and concluded with an amazing 24 hours fulfilling my "Village Project"
learning about goat farming, cheese making, and small town partying in a small
village in southern Alsace...
Suffice it to say, I've been simply saturated with amazing sights and wonderful
encounters... and just when I want to recount them all to any interested
parties, I have to begin studying for final exams! Ack! Hence my lack of blog
updates and the absence of captions/explanations for two of the following three
photo albums. I hope you can forgive me and perhaps think up creative captions
on your own... I usually put photos in chronological order, with some sort of
story behind each one. So if a photo seems completely random and out-of-place,
known that somewhere, somehow, it DOES make sense!
So... without further hesitation:
Melia's two week tromp around western/northern France! (links have been edited so as not to lead to canadian beer shindig!)
Album #1: Paris, My 21st birthday!, La Rochelle, Ile de Re
http://lclark.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2004536&l=a979b&id=31600135
Album #2: La Rochelle, Dinan, Saint-Malo, Mont-Saint-Michel
http://lclark.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2004538&l=36bc9&id=31600135
And the subtitled album... Goat farms and village parties!
http://lclark.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2004808&l=96715&id=31600135
enjoy!
P.S. My newly-discovered potential post-college-before-grad-school thought? Goat Farm Intern!
I remember hearing about folks who would head to New Zealand to work on eco-friendly (known as “Bio” here in france) sheep farms after high school as an interum step before college. I never really understood the draw... it always just seemed a bit of a random choice. Now, however, my eyes have been openned, and the friendly nuzzles of goat muzzles is hard-pressed to leave the forefront of my mind. Finals? Bah! What’s a couple (aka. 9) exams up against a hundred or so milk-laden she-goats with names like “Patati”, “Oh Suzanna”, and “Vodka”? Add to that an all-night village birthday party under the stars, equipped with BBQ’d Alsacian sausages (soooo good!), improvising musicians, good quality wine and village-made eaux-de-vie (spirits) in un-ending quantities, and dancing till 4 am to one of the best sets of ecclectic music I’ve heard in a long time... pretty much one of the most awesome experiences of a lifetime!
posted by Melia at 8:55 AM
3 Comments:
Fun goat pictures & otherwise, but the last two URL addresses go to other places, including some guy's booze party instead of goats. To get to your pics, need to add a 5 to the last two addresses. Good luck with exams et al.
Fun goat pictures & otherwise, but the last two URL addresses go to other places, including some guy's booze party instead of goats. To get to your pics, need to add a 5 to the last two addresses. Good luck with exams et al.
hi melia!
we're going to spain, hooray. i'm really excited for our adventures. al said you and gretchen are arriving prob around the 26th, sounds fabulous.
i just wanted to congratulate you on your writing skills. i loved reading what you had to say about teh CPE, the french ability to mobilise and actually change something. i think i got quite caught up in the fact that the grevistes were keeping me and many other students from going to class when i could have been admiring their power. i'm doing an indepenent study project on the whole experience and i've formulated quelques questions that i would to have your responses to if you have time? let me know and i'll forward them to you.
i can't wait to discuss our experiences further and of course take on the beaches, clubs and history of barcelona, bisous,
kate
p.s. did you enjoy bretagne?
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