July 2011
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Saturday
I learned to ride the tram. Altho it is about a 30 minute walk along the aquaduct to get to the tram, I’m beginning to love the walk more and more with each trek. The tram took over an hour to get to our destination, the Odyseum, which is a huge outdoor mall with gokarts, bars, bowling, ice skating, and an aquarium. I shopped the soldes and had an interesting encounter in the H&M dressing room...
en route to Paris.....
Friday we left for Paris at 6am! The high speed train we took didn’t seem that intense, but I’ve gotten some sort of weird vertigo from all the motion of Paris’ vehicles. Straight from the train we embark on a 3-hour bus tour. Paris’ monuments and buildings are so beautiful, I found myself tearing up about 20 minutes in at the beauty of it all. It is like nothing I have ever seen or imagined....
Wednesday, July 6 – Opening party in Manade
After over an hour bus ride, we arrived at Manade, a typical rural ranch in France where they raise bulls. Supposedly the bulls are used to fight, but never killed. We took a hay ride through the ranch, and the marks on the bulls where they were branded multiple times and the tags stuck through their ears hurt my heart.
After the ride, we arrived back at the ranch where we were greeted with...
it's only the second day...
We all meet in the morning for coffee and pastries. This is our first official gathering and people line the steps of the building across the street. There are names after names and introductions one after the other. I am tickled with every new fun person I meet - so thankful to be out of the same humdrum life of new orleans….
almost the entire group was as amazed as i was by the cheap wine, and turns out a wine party commenced in the courtyard. as we got roudier and roudier (so new orleans, aren’t we?) the group decided to go to a local bar to finish drinking. i was hesitant, still hoping my luggage would arrive any moment, but it just took a little twisting of my arm to get me to go, even tho i was still in the...
LIDL supermarket
turns out, not only do you have to bag your own groceries, but you have to supply the bag! fortunately they had some i could buy near the register. i bought wine and some other seemingly normal things like bread, cheese, and what looks like some kind of sandwich meat and start on the hot grueling treck back to my apartment to stock my fridge
july 4
on the first day we took a mini-tour of our town. we went to a grocery store to stock up on goodies and things started seeming a little different from the moment i walked in. my mind was first blown when almost every bottle of wine in the store was 4 euros or less. i bought a couple for 1.50euros. i walked around this store in a daze for a moment, not knowing wth im looking at because i cant read...
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i can tell you rock, i can tell by your charm
soOOo after a few *adventurous* moments in the world of air travel, I finally made it to Montpellier. when boarding for my first flight to ATL, i stumbled upon someone come up in the spot looking extra fly.
“a hip hop legend. i think i died in an accident, cuz this must be heaven.”
i met kanye and thought this dude’s ballin, yeah that’s nice. after talking a bit, we set...
June 2011
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“a dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than you love yourself”
– josh billings
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“before anything else, preparation is the key to success”
– alexander graham bell
