France Tales

This is where stuff goes that doesn’t easily fit in the other categories, also more personal stuff about us.

I am once again legal to live and work in France for another year. I am set until December of 2009. This time around I worried a bit because I was changing my statute. It was quite easy and painless. This time there were no special circumstances and I could provide all the things they [...]

I spent the weekend of November 14-17th in Paris. I needed a change of scenery and that is just what I got.
I went to see my first play entirely in French, most of which I understood. Les Hommes Preferent Les Blonds, it didn’t occupy the highest brow on the cultural ladder but I got [...]

Yes I am late, but yes I was at L’École de Commerce for the Democrats Abroad party as we watched the results come in. I am only posting this so late because a few people asked me or emailed me, Do you not support Obama? You haven’t said much lately on your blog about it. [...]

Halloween in France is not nearly as known or celebrated as in the US. We miss the big party in the Castro in SF for Halloween so we decided to have our own party. When we told people costumes were mandatory many people thought we were joking. Because of this I think we thought the [...]

A fellow language teacher sent me this verb conjugations video. I was expecting some useful but dry video about verb conjugations and who knows what else, maybe even a video I could use in class. Although the video is useless to me as a teacher I did laugh and found myself singing the song by [...]

Recently we were walking around a neighborhood known as Place St Georges. There is usually a market there each day. It was Saturday and there were many people milling about, which was not out of the ordinary. As we got closer it was clearly bigger than the usual market. In each booth was a different [...]