Here are the last of the links to my Europe pictures. With getting back to work and school and trying to spend time with Tyler before he headed off to Michigan, it's been hard to get reorganized and adjusted. So, in the following order, I give you Barcelona, Zaragoza, Paris museums, Paris monuments, and Mont St. Michel!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000713&l=ccdca&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000714&l=f4cf3&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000719&l=83ec0&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000744&l=80b5c&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000748&l=5526f&id=1017060006
07 September 2008
24 August 2008
It's good to be home.
I still have a lot of updating to do on the rest of my trip but for now, it's good to be home. Here's a picture from the week I got back and went to Peter Piper for Mimi's birthday. I hope everything is going well on Mimi and Grandpa's trek to Wisconsin!
01 August 2008
Leaving for Barcelona...
Hey everybody. Sorry I haven't been able to update. Our internet has been down for the past week or so but now it's finally working so I posted the rest of my pictures. I don't have time to tell you about them, but here they are! Love and miss you all!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000695&l=335c1&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000697&l=edfcd&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000698&l=3931f&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000699&l=84f3f&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000700&l=aca4c&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000701&l=83e5c&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000695&l=335c1&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000697&l=edfcd&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000698&l=3931f&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000699&l=84f3f&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000700&l=aca4c&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000701&l=83e5c&id=1017060006
23 July 2008
Picture links...
Here are the links to the latest pictures!!!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000679&l=603b5&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000680&l=4d641&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000681&l=4009b&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000682&l=fb158&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000679&l=603b5&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000680&l=4d641&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000681&l=4009b&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000682&l=fb158&id=1017060006
22 July 2008
La Fête Nationale, Avignon, Arles, and the last days of class!
On le 14 juillet, we went to one of the bridges on the Rhône river to see the fireworks launched from behind the cathedral at Fourvière. I didn't bring my camera with me because we went out dancing afterwards and I didn't want to lose my camera. The fireworks were pretty good, but they probably would have been much better if we had been close enough to hear the music that I'm assuming accompanied them. Afterward, Canovas and Barbara led us over to the bal de pompiers and we danced ALL night until about 3 am. It was so so so much fun and I was really glad that I didn't have a purse or anything with me - I put all of my ID and money in the boots I wore! Anyway, no one got much sleep that night and we were sooo tired at class the next day.
The rest of the week went by pretty quickly and this past weekend, we went to Avignon and Arles. It was really fun because a theater festival has been going on for three weeks, so there were a lot of cool street performers and Avignon is just an overall beautiful city. We went out to eat at a cute restaurant for lunch and later in the day, we went to this ice cream place and I got three scoops: Nutella, Kinder Chocolate, and Tiramisu. It was amazing.
After that, William, one of the guys in the program, was putting on a small performance, so we headed over to the spot he'd picked out earlier in the day. He's a part of the theater program at ASU and with the Barrett Honors College, he's doing his thesis as a performance of poetry and prose themed on Tristan and Isolde. He did about the first fifteen minutes of it and it was so good. I was really impressed and now I've been trying to think more about what I want to do for my honors thesis, but I still have quite awhile to figure all of that out.
That night we tried to go to another restaurant, but everywhere was really crowded so we all went and bought delicious delicious kebabs. Seriously, they were good. We were supposed to meet our program directors at a bar that night, but Katie, Anna, Ashley, and I were tired so we went back to our room at the hostel in Avignon. We fell asleep really fast since we'd been walking around all day.
The next day we went to a Chartreuse outside of Avignon and it was really beautiful. After that, we drove to Arles and went to a photo exposition. Some of it was pretty cool, but we got really bored after awhile and everyone was ready to get home by the end of the day and SHOWER. We could've showered at the hostel on Saturday or Sunday morning, but we all neglected to bring towels because we wanted our backpacks to be lighter. Who would've thought Avignon would be so warm! As soon as we got home, I showered for almost thirty minutes and went straight to bed.
This week we've just been finishing up our last days of classes and working on projects. Tomorrow is our last day before our theater performance on Thursday and the presentation of our Grave Robber Monopoly game. I'm excited to be done and relax this weekend and to meet Tyler in Barcelona! I miss you all very much and I loved seeing all the videos of you guys on youtube! So jealous that you saw Mamma Mia! and I hope everyone had a great time.
Happy Belated Birthday, Mommy and I love you all!!!!!
The rest of the week went by pretty quickly and this past weekend, we went to Avignon and Arles. It was really fun because a theater festival has been going on for three weeks, so there were a lot of cool street performers and Avignon is just an overall beautiful city. We went out to eat at a cute restaurant for lunch and later in the day, we went to this ice cream place and I got three scoops: Nutella, Kinder Chocolate, and Tiramisu. It was amazing.
After that, William, one of the guys in the program, was putting on a small performance, so we headed over to the spot he'd picked out earlier in the day. He's a part of the theater program at ASU and with the Barrett Honors College, he's doing his thesis as a performance of poetry and prose themed on Tristan and Isolde. He did about the first fifteen minutes of it and it was so good. I was really impressed and now I've been trying to think more about what I want to do for my honors thesis, but I still have quite awhile to figure all of that out.
That night we tried to go to another restaurant, but everywhere was really crowded so we all went and bought delicious delicious kebabs. Seriously, they were good. We were supposed to meet our program directors at a bar that night, but Katie, Anna, Ashley, and I were tired so we went back to our room at the hostel in Avignon. We fell asleep really fast since we'd been walking around all day.
The next day we went to a Chartreuse outside of Avignon and it was really beautiful. After that, we drove to Arles and went to a photo exposition. Some of it was pretty cool, but we got really bored after awhile and everyone was ready to get home by the end of the day and SHOWER. We could've showered at the hostel on Saturday or Sunday morning, but we all neglected to bring towels because we wanted our backpacks to be lighter. Who would've thought Avignon would be so warm! As soon as we got home, I showered for almost thirty minutes and went straight to bed.
This week we've just been finishing up our last days of classes and working on projects. Tomorrow is our last day before our theater performance on Thursday and the presentation of our Grave Robber Monopoly game. I'm excited to be done and relax this weekend and to meet Tyler in Barcelona! I miss you all very much and I loved seeing all the videos of you guys on youtube! So jealous that you saw Mamma Mia! and I hope everyone had a great time.
Happy Belated Birthday, Mommy and I love you all!!!!!
14 July 2008
Some updates...
Mars Attacks! was hilarious! I took some pictures and you should be able to see them in the links I attach at the end of my post. Let's see... what else have I been up to? One day between classes, we went across the bridge and walked around before getting some amazing chocolate. Then on Friday I had my Art, Ville, et Patrimoine class and we walked around the city some more and found out why the French are all so skinny.
All of the buildings in the Croix-Rousse are considered historical to a certain extent, so they aren't allowed to build elevators on the outsides of the buildings at all. Our teacher showed us her building and let us in to look up at the staircase - she walks up six flights of stairs just to get to her apartment! It's insane! And just walking around the city can be difficult because there are a lot of stairs and inclines all over the place. I can't even imagine living there if you had trouble walking long distances or had asthma or something. It was a tough walk.
When we were walking, we went by this elementary school and our teacher, Annick, knew two little kids that we sitting outside the school and she was asking them a bunch of questions, like what they were doing for summer vacation, if they were happy that it was finally the last day of school, etc. And to every question they just said, "Oui." They were so cute - it made me miss the kids at work. I love seeing the kids around here with their parents. The other day in the market, a little girl was giving herself an orange mustache with a lollipop and another day when I was getting ready to go out, I heard a kid squeeling outside of my window.
It was a really windy day and I looked out from the fourth floor and saw a little boy, probably about 4 years old, pushing a stroller ahead of him, running back behind it, and letting the wind push the stroller back to him while his dad looked on, laughing. It was the cutest thing because the dad tried to take control of the stroller to make sure the little boy didn't get hurt, but the little boy would shout, "Non, non!" in his French accent every time he came near the stroller. I was laughing so hard.
Anyway, I haven't been meeting many French people aside from my professors and this one girl that someone met before they came to the residence. Her name is Carole and she came down for the weekend to hang out because she lives in Northern France and took a placement exam here a couple weeks ago and was getting the results of it. She was nice and she spoke English really well. It was interesting though because when we were in big groups of people, she definitely had a harder time understanding the conversation. For one thing, it's harder to hear and also, people tend to use a lot more clichés and idioms when they aren't thinking about the fact that not everyone is a native English speaker.
One great thing about Lyon is this blue van that makes delicious, fresh pizzas down the street. It is literally the best pizza that I've ever had - no joke. We got two amazing pizzas yesterday. One of them had chèvre, tomatoes, and just a little bit of honey and it was incredible. The other was called the sucrée and it had sugar, cream, and nutella. AMAZING.
Yesterday I went to mass at the church I saw on our initial tour of Lyon. It was absolutely beautiful and mass wasn't too difficult to understand. It's nice that Catholic mass is the same format wherever you go - otherwise I would've been pretty lost. I could usually understand what the priest was saying, but the echo made it difficult. We took lots of pictures though and afterward, we went outside and from the top of the hill you can see the whole city of Lyon. It was breathtaking.
Today is the Fête Nationale, so we have off from school. I tried to sleep in really late today so that I wouldn't be too tired for dancing and fireworks tonight. I'm really excited! Then we only have about 6 days of school left Next weekend I'll be going to Avignon and Arles for a film festival, so that'll be fun. Other than that, I'll just be finishing classes, buying my ticket to meet Tyler and Dave in Barcelona, and trying to finish off all of the food I've bought so far, haha.
I love and miss everyone so much. Mom's been sending me youtube videos of the house, the backyard, the dogs, Mimi and Grandpa, Brett. It's been so nice to hear voices and see faces. Now I know more than ever how much I love my family and how much they love me. Here are two links for a few more pictures. I added photos to one of the albums, so some of the pictures should look familiar already.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000660&l=c21d1&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000668&l=05d9e&id=1017060006
All of the buildings in the Croix-Rousse are considered historical to a certain extent, so they aren't allowed to build elevators on the outsides of the buildings at all. Our teacher showed us her building and let us in to look up at the staircase - she walks up six flights of stairs just to get to her apartment! It's insane! And just walking around the city can be difficult because there are a lot of stairs and inclines all over the place. I can't even imagine living there if you had trouble walking long distances or had asthma or something. It was a tough walk.
When we were walking, we went by this elementary school and our teacher, Annick, knew two little kids that we sitting outside the school and she was asking them a bunch of questions, like what they were doing for summer vacation, if they were happy that it was finally the last day of school, etc. And to every question they just said, "Oui." They were so cute - it made me miss the kids at work. I love seeing the kids around here with their parents. The other day in the market, a little girl was giving herself an orange mustache with a lollipop and another day when I was getting ready to go out, I heard a kid squeeling outside of my window.
It was a really windy day and I looked out from the fourth floor and saw a little boy, probably about 4 years old, pushing a stroller ahead of him, running back behind it, and letting the wind push the stroller back to him while his dad looked on, laughing. It was the cutest thing because the dad tried to take control of the stroller to make sure the little boy didn't get hurt, but the little boy would shout, "Non, non!" in his French accent every time he came near the stroller. I was laughing so hard.
Anyway, I haven't been meeting many French people aside from my professors and this one girl that someone met before they came to the residence. Her name is Carole and she came down for the weekend to hang out because she lives in Northern France and took a placement exam here a couple weeks ago and was getting the results of it. She was nice and she spoke English really well. It was interesting though because when we were in big groups of people, she definitely had a harder time understanding the conversation. For one thing, it's harder to hear and also, people tend to use a lot more clichés and idioms when they aren't thinking about the fact that not everyone is a native English speaker.
One great thing about Lyon is this blue van that makes delicious, fresh pizzas down the street. It is literally the best pizza that I've ever had - no joke. We got two amazing pizzas yesterday. One of them had chèvre, tomatoes, and just a little bit of honey and it was incredible. The other was called the sucrée and it had sugar, cream, and nutella. AMAZING.
Yesterday I went to mass at the church I saw on our initial tour of Lyon. It was absolutely beautiful and mass wasn't too difficult to understand. It's nice that Catholic mass is the same format wherever you go - otherwise I would've been pretty lost. I could usually understand what the priest was saying, but the echo made it difficult. We took lots of pictures though and afterward, we went outside and from the top of the hill you can see the whole city of Lyon. It was breathtaking.
Today is the Fête Nationale, so we have off from school. I tried to sleep in really late today so that I wouldn't be too tired for dancing and fireworks tonight. I'm really excited! Then we only have about 6 days of school left Next weekend I'll be going to Avignon and Arles for a film festival, so that'll be fun. Other than that, I'll just be finishing classes, buying my ticket to meet Tyler and Dave in Barcelona, and trying to finish off all of the food I've bought so far, haha.
I love and miss everyone so much. Mom's been sending me youtube videos of the house, the backyard, the dogs, Mimi and Grandpa, Brett. It's been so nice to hear voices and see faces. Now I know more than ever how much I love my family and how much they love me. Here are two links for a few more pictures. I added photos to one of the albums, so some of the pictures should look familiar already.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000660&l=c21d1&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000668&l=05d9e&id=1017060006
08 July 2008
Exposé... ugh.
Today I had to give a presentation on Tempe and I felt like I was back in junior high. My hands would not stop shaking and I kept losing my place in my notes. It was so difficult to explain Tempe to the teacher because Arizona is just completely and utterly different from anywhere in Europe. I couldn't explain that Arizona is just too hot to have big public spaces like there are in Lyon. Here, you can just meet a friend in a plaza and hang out. In Arizona, you meet up at someone's house or at a restaurant or at a Starbucks to figure out what people feel like doing. If you go to a museum or a play, it's not really spur of the moment. Anyway, the presentation is over now, so I'm not going to think about it anymore. I just need to make sure that I do my best to participate more in class and not be so shy and nervous about speaking French.
But anyone that knows me knows that I'm a perfectionist. I love to participate in class, but I hate to make mistakes. And making mistakes is about one of the only ways that a person can really learn a foreign language - my mind just reels. I have to get over it if I want to succeed.
Anyway, I got some more groceries after school yesterday. My memorization for my scene in theater is going well and the only bad thing about my other classes is that when the teachers are late, the class ends up staying late. It stinks, but at least we're all dealing with it together. Everyone here is so nice and we all get along really well. It's awesome.
So tonight I think I'm going to go see Mars Attacks! across the street with some people. I haven't seen it before but it should be fun. They're playing it for free outside at the Musée de Lumière (the brothers that invented cinéma lived in Lyon so there's a big museum and theater right across from my residence).
I love and miss everyone!
Love love love,
K
But anyone that knows me knows that I'm a perfectionist. I love to participate in class, but I hate to make mistakes. And making mistakes is about one of the only ways that a person can really learn a foreign language - my mind just reels. I have to get over it if I want to succeed.
Anyway, I got some more groceries after school yesterday. My memorization for my scene in theater is going well and the only bad thing about my other classes is that when the teachers are late, the class ends up staying late. It stinks, but at least we're all dealing with it together. Everyone here is so nice and we all get along really well. It's awesome.
So tonight I think I'm going to go see Mars Attacks! across the street with some people. I haven't seen it before but it should be fun. They're playing it for free outside at the Musée de Lumière (the brothers that invented cinéma lived in Lyon so there's a big museum and theater right across from my residence).
I love and miss everyone!
Love love love,
K
07 July 2008
The last of my pictures so far!
These are the rest of the pictures that I've taken so far. Both albums are of places and people in Lyon. Enjoy!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000659&l=2492c&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000660&l=c21d1&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000659&l=2492c&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000660&l=c21d1&id=1017060006
06 July 2008
Pictures!
Here are the links to all of the pictures I've posted on Facebook so far:
Brussels
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000654&l=03a6b&id=1017060006
Brussels museum
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000655&l=bcf8d&id=1017060006
Amsterdam
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000656&l=e9c41&id=1017060006
Amsterdam 2
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000657&l=22c2e&id=1017060006
Brussels
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000654&l=03a6b&id=1017060006
Brussels museum
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000655&l=bcf8d&id=1017060006
Amsterdam
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000656&l=e9c41&id=1017060006
Amsterdam 2
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000657&l=22c2e&id=1017060006
05 July 2008
All of the Brussels pictures (aside from the museum pictures that I'll be putting on soon)
can be found on facebook through this link:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000654&l=03a6b&id=1017060006
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000654&l=03a6b&id=1017060006
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