Dream Journal - 1:1

Last nights dream was weird.

It started out, I think it started out like this, I had a lover, a girl, who was overseas and was like married to some duke or some important guy in France. She was going to come back to the states after 4 years but she decided to spend another year over there, and do some work in Spain. She is famous, everyone loves her. But her best friend and I want her back. The best friend got really really mad when she heard this, especially since we heard it at the amphitheater ( i think that is where people go to hear news). After hearing that I started walking up the hill (think capital hill) to go home, on my way however I saw this really really beautiful girl closing her shop down. I decided to take a chance and I walked over to her while she was outside putting away her shops sign. I told her she was really beautiful. She smiled. I told her that I really want to hang out with her and if it would be ok if I gave her my number. She said yes, so I fished around for a pen and a scrap of paper. I ended up using the back of a receipt, how romantic I thought. She didnt seem to care and I left waving. A little while later she called me, she wanted to know if I wanted to go to the amphitheater with her tonight. I said yes and I met her there a couple of hours later. After finding her sitting near the top I put my stuff in the lockers near us, the top left ones. And sat down next to her. She was still smiling. We watched the show.

Later on I had a certain feeling, that I should go check on my stuff, so I went up then down to the the lockers. There was nothing there! Everyones shit was gone. And on the way down I saw a couple of kids running up with a bunch of stuff. I was pissed. I ran after them then detoured to the stage. Grabbed the mike from the girls hand and told everyone that we just got robbed. Only a couple of people believed me. I don't know if my date did or not, I ran after the thieves.

It was raining, I never found them, but I did find a bike, I donut think I stole it though. I was sad and depressed, all my crap was in that bag, including my keys. I couldn't go home. I ended up sleeping under a tree.

The next day when i woke up it was still raining. I was still sad. I ended up biking through the waterfront district and stopped at this yoga place. Don't know why but I saw that there was a class starting soon so I went in and the desk guy showed me where to go. Once I got there the yoga lady looked at me and asked me if I wanted to join. I wanted to but realized I couldn't because I had no money. So I said no, she gave me a puzzled look, along with everyone else in the class.

And then things shifted. The class and I were in the forest, next to a small stream. I think we were playing with miniature boats. It was fun, we were enjoying ourselves. Plus the light through the canopy made everything really really pretty. I was sitting alongside a moss ridden bank when I saw another small boat come down stream. It was a blue sailboat, a boat that I would like to have. in it however there was a small boy....a really small boy. For some reason this didn't strike me as weird, but whatever. We asked him if we could take a picture of him and his boat next to ours. He was happy and said yes. Unfortunately before we could a strong surge dragged them both down river. We chased after them. In the chase I realized that I should take my cell phone out of my pocket so it wouldn't get wet. This is when I realized that I didn't have to worry anymore, I realized I had my keys and everything I wanted was at my house. Nothing was stolen.

Thats when I woke up.

Weird huh?

lunch - with un aildour paste

Do you remember how last night I made the paste from the aildour leaves? Well today I bought a baguette and some St. Marcellen (my newfound favorite type of cheese) and went to the Ile d'Amour, which is the parc that I walk through everyday to get to school, and had a little picnic.
It was really nice and it felt great to eat something that I made myself. Which by the way is really good and has a galic flavor. I think that I am going to look for more when ever I am out walking around. I wish I took a picture to remember what they looked like but it is ok because the smell is quite reconizable.

KEXP

I just found out that I can get a touch of home while I am out. KEXP (my favorite radio station) is available over the internet so now when I go to the computer lab I can listen to it or even NPR even though I am in France! Cool huh!

laundry....

So I tried this morning to do my own laundry this morning...

I hope i did a good job.....as you can see its alittle complicated but my clothes dont look messed up....

well....whoops

So.... I kinda lost the little cord that connects my camera to the computer. I still have all my pictures but no way to transfer then to flicker or anything...

Sorry. But do no fret, I will figure something out soon though.

Haagen-Dazs

As a fun thing to do I have decided to take a picture of every Haagen-Dazs store that I see in my travels even if I don't go to them just because I love ice cream and it is something fun to do.

i hate you dollar!

While I was wandering around Dublin I saw this on a bus.
It says "Shop while the dollar drops." if you can't read it.

I just about cried....dam you dollar dam you...

Dublin!

Wow, do I have a lot to say but regardless I will make this short cause I'm lazy and pictures are so much easier.
Anyway, this last week, I went to Dublin with Alicia for 6 days and we had a blast!

Saturday 17th-

We Arrived at our hostel and found out that for our first night we were upgraded to a private room with no extra cost! Look we even have a kitchen!
Sunday 18th-

After going to the Tourism office we went and took a nap at Trinity College...just ignore the finger k?
We then precceded to wander around for a bit.Later I ran into Dan, a classmate from high school (very odd to meet him here), and we ended up going over to his new hostel and having a couple of drinks with him in his friends. It was fun because he filled me in on all the gossip of whats going on with our other classemates.

Monday 19th-

We tried to go to the Chester Beatty Library but it was closed. So instead we wandered around the Dublin Castle, got some coffee at starbucks, and came back to the hostel to watch Lost before going to bed.

We did take some time to do a quick visit to Dvblinia (dont ask) on the wander though.
Tuesday 20th-

Today we went on a day tour of Wicklow and Glendalough. Places in the country south of Dublin and as you can tell it is really pretty. I don't know the exact names of the places we went but Alicia does and I can get the info from her later.



Wednesday 21st-

Today we actually went to the Archeology Museum. While we were there I got bored so I sat in on a lecture called 'The Broighter Hoard: blah blah blah'. It actually was quite interesting and was about the fun stuff they find in the bogs from way back, like iron age way back. It is pretty cool.

Afterwards I went for a long long long walk around and ended up near the docks. I really liked it but passed out when I got back to the hostel.

Later that night we went to a bar with some other girls from the hostel to see Irish dancing.

Then we all went to the Temple Bar, a famous tourist bar in Dublin, because we figured that if we are going to be in Dublin we might as well. I had my first real Guinness there. I have to say it was quite good. You can see it in the center of the table.Thursday 22nd-

We actually went to the Chester Beatty Library today and looked around at the religious documents it had from most of the major religions of the world. It was cool and quite educational.

After the museum we left for the airport and came back to grenoble! I was so glad to get back because I was starting to get sick and that is never good.

Good bye Dublin....

Valentinstag

hier was weird...
I knew it was going to be weird when I was sitting in my 'Histoire du Cinema Français' classe et all of a sudden the end of the film was in German subtitles. As many of you know I took german in highschool and can still read and understand some of it (its an easy language), so imagine my surprise when I had to watch a movie in french but kept reading along with what they were saying in english! I knew I was going crazy when the french and the german combined in my head to form english...it gave me such a headache.

le Hiver vacance

So I think Alicia and I finnally confirmed our plans for Dublin.
We are going to be leaving this Saturday and taking a flight directly to Dublin and then hanging out in a hostel for 5 days untill we come back on thursday night.
Still don't know how I am affording it but I will figure that out when I get there.
Oh and I will definently bring back pretty pictures for everyone to enjoy!

le 3-5 semaine point

So according to everyone this is the point in everyone's study abroad trip in which they get homesick and want to go home.
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Well I am homesick and want to go home. It is ok though, everything will turn out fine I just am getting tired about having to worry about money, friends, school, family (including host) ect. ect. ect. I think once Alicia and I figure out what we are doing for the vacance and after we get back I will feel much better.
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I can' wait till I get back.In other news, I have an intense craving for a tofu broccli omlett, roasted potatoes and legumes, strawberry shortcake, et fried rice.

Lyon

This last weekend our group went to Lyon for the weekend and my was it beautiful, so very beautiful.

Saturday:
The Roman-era Amphithéâtre des Trois GaulesThe basilica Notre-Dame de Fourvière, it was breathtaking...

after the basilica we checked out the cathedrale for a bitthem Ana, Laura and I got food and went to bed, I really wanted to go to the ferris wheel but I will have to save that trip for another time

Sunday:
I spent most of sunday before we left exploring the markets, i even bought a painting
then i walked along the river and looked at all the pretty boats ^_^ oh and i found a swanAll in all it was a really fun trip and I am definently going to go back for a weekend.

chicken?

i saw this outside my window a couple of weeks ago

apparently my neighbours have chickens....

Les Vercors

today Paul took 4 of us, including me, up to this cave system to explore it and be awed...
well ok so we werent awed by the caves parce-que they were closed due to falling icicles but the trip up was gorgeous! The 4 of us were glued to the windows for the entire 2 hour trip and then screamed everyonce and a while on the narrow paths as we barely avoided a colosion with a crazy french driver. Really though, we drove through the prettiest things ever, we felt like we were in somekind of kodac calander.

These are pictures from the top of the Vercors, which is the mountain range near Grenoble where the caves are. The view isnt as pretty as our trip up them but it was still cool!as always there are more on flicker

bastille

Today Paul took a few of us up to the Bastille which is the fort that overlooks grenoble, the one that the balls go to. Its really cool and a popular place for climbing and running to, like what I did last week.

I think I am going to try to run it once a week....note try. ^_^the group qt one of the outcroppings

our destination.....its a long walk up

ana + brandon

good friends are hard to find but i think i found some

i hope i can keep them

fishbowl

The mountains here do a strange thing.

Sometimes, when things are right, they seem to stretch right into the sky, which makes it hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.

It makes me feel like I live in a fishbowl, being surrounded like that, with mountains on everyside.

I kinda like it.

revolution museum

Alors, these photos are from the Revolution Museum in Vizille, which is like an hour south of Grenoble. I didn't take that many pictures but as you can see it is quite pretty and I plan on going again just to admire the grounds some more.

OMG

so today i ran who knows how much to get to the bastille which is a fort on the top of one of our mountains! it was so cool and i got a wonderful view of the city, the pictures do no justiceI know the picture is fuzzy but it was pitch black so just a little bit difficult. The cool thing though is that if you can see the lights that are floating in the air? Well those are the brightest of some of the villages in the mountains in the backgroud. When their are lots of stars it looks like the lights on the mountains are stars as well and the feeling is awsome!

erg...

ok so i went to an internet cafe because i thought i could upload my pictures easier here and also type easier (go english keyboards), mais I cant figure out how to do it! DAM YOU LINUX! erg, so I guess none of you can see the pictures I have so far untill i go home and have my host-sister help me

regardless, things are great, cept I lost a bag at the aeroport, the one with all my pants, so I have been wearing the smae pants for what....4-5 days now, they are starting to stink but im still holding out!

anyway, time for lunch cause im hungry!this is Ana and the best sandwhich ever!!!!
I think its tomatoes, brie, and a basile spread