now that I've gotten that obnoxious Disney earworm stuck in your head, let me explain. After a good night of dancing to bad 70s/80s music at the Tower Bar last night, I went to the tram stop to catch the last tram home. As Lindsay and I approached (and yes, there's another Lindsay G in my program) Commerce, we saw a very drunk french boy talking in what little english he knew to a group of girls. I thought one of them was one of the new IES girls I met last night who lives on the same tramline as me, so I smiled at her and waited for her to recognize me. She gave me that "I know you, I think?" look and then blurts out - "Oh my God! Wooster!!" That's when I realize that it's not from IES that I know Lindsey (just to confuse this story even further, her name is Lindsey too), but Wooster! she was in my Intro to Francophone Texts class last year...she graduated and is now teaching english here in Nantes. She's been here since september too...it's just so weird. People at Wooster say you'll find Wooster people in all corners of the world, but I wasn't actually expecting it to be true!
Aside from the freaky small world connections, it's been a relatively smooth and easy transition back into life in Nantes. Classes start tomorrow (thank goodness!) and my first class is Sociologie de l'emploi féminin -Sociology of female employment. "The behaviors of women's activites are transforming themselves and bringing themselves closer to those of men. However, this evolution remains marked by the survival of profound inequalities" I actually found a Womens Studies course!! I'm thinking it's gonna be a good semester...
and I bought a carnet de croquis - a sketchbook. I had bought a book called Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain over Christmas break. It's a book that teaches you how to draw - or rather, "how to see the world through an artist's eyes." It's designed on the principle that everyone can draw, we're just never taught to see everything the right way. but I'm doing pretty well so far...my goal is to take my newly purchased sketchbook to Carcassonne (an old medieval city that I had done a report on in 10th grade french class) and spend an afternoon drawing. actually, I have a lot of goals for this semester...last semester was just a warm-up =D
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good luck with compliting all of your goals darling, the drawing sounds like it will be a lot of fun!
miss ya,
Court
How did you get the counter at the bottom of your page?
Yes, it's ironic, me asking you for help with technology, but how did you do it?
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