It's been a long, long time
Sep. 15th, 2004 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenie_breizhTuesday :
School whee. I've managed something pretty interesting when you attend a French prep school : I have no homework left to do. Well, by that I mean precise exercises we have to do for a certain class. Cuz I have a good dozen books to read, a Greek test and 3 presentations to prepare, but that doesn't really count. *pause* This is totally crazy, isn't it?
The funny thing is, most of the stuff is interesting, though my recent lack of sleep has made today's (and a little yesterday's) classes tiresome and tiring. But it's interesting. Spanish's going slow, which is good, I feel like I'm not gonna drown like I thought I would. Which is great, cuz then I might just not give up on my Spanish just yet.
The funniest thing is, I've never worked so much. I mean actual work, not the let's-look-up-a-few-things-on-google-while-AIMing-people kinda work. I suppose it's a good thing, on the whole. I still miss Dr Moore and most Phillips teachers though. They were more laid-back in a serious kinda way :)
On a non-school level, I hung out once more with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
twixou and heiki_cherren Sunday night, because south_uist was in Paris for work. We had a nice little evening and enjoyed Chinese food, hmmm. Since I've seen way too little of Sweetie lately, I invited her to come over for dinner, and therefore I had the chance to taste her delicious mashed potatoes. Joss, so good!! I have some left for tonight. Me happy. *g* I almost ruined them, but didn't. Phew.
On the "trying to be an adult side", I'm desperately trying to get a phone line installed in my apartment, and will have to skip Litterature class next Tuesday in order to be there when the France Telecom guy comes. I'm kinda afraid my Litt teacher is going to go very very mad when I'll tell her, but, hey! It's not like I have much of a choice. Anyhoot, if everything goes well by Wednesday next week I'll have my very own landline. Feels strange to think about it, in a cool kind of way. Just like it was cool to have my own phone number at Phillips last year. :) I'm kinda sad it's a 01 number though. It's silly, but I've grown to like the 02 99 numbers.
As for the internet, it's a whole other issue. If I have all the cables, all the stuff and all, I should be able to connect in dial-up as soon as my phone's installed. I realized I needed a modem, but I believe Simon has one automatically if it's for dial-up? I really hope so. My dad still wants to go with the FreeBox for the DSL connection, but that'll take over a month to install, so I won't have it till after the All Saints vacation in early November...
Me is going to go back to do some reading, so my evening is free for some Buffy watching. I'll watch Tough Love I think. Have started thinking about the going to England and all, too. I'll have to think about looking up prices and all that stuff soon. Hmm. I realized I have quite a lot of vacation, but I guess it's all gonna be kinda hard to plan and all.
Oh, and also, for those of you who I might not have told because I'm growing tired of the whole business : I'm on the waiting list for the school in Rennes, and chances are I'll get in, but I've decided to let it go and do the whole year here. Different reasons, including : I've started here already, I like having my own place, it's easier to go to England, it's probably much better for my studies. I'm trying not to think about not seeing my bro, my family, my doggie and not riding Glacier for a whole new year. Not to mention the friends I won't see, but – at least I'll get to see other cool people around here.
Today:
Am starting to really know some people in my class. As I thought, I'm not hanging out with Hugues, Alex (who's very probably going to switch to public university) and Pauline. Lately I've been more hanging out with Sophie (really cool girl, I like her style, she's a traveler, too), Barbara, Pauline (another one, and her and Barbara are quite obsessed with sex, which is familiar territory for me :-p), Marion (who has a big bruise and weird bluey thingie on her arm, vaguely reminiscent of Jared Leto's arm in Requiem for a dream, which makes me a little worried, but mostly she's an awesome girl who's lived in so many places), Jeanne, and still Cathy. Am also regularly finding myself talking to lots of other people from my class : with 46 students, I'll probably be getting to know people till January...!
The only thing is, I'm really just hanging out with my class. I can know some HK1 kids who are with me in Spanish, or Greek, but it's very limited. I miss the US on that one, and being able to get to know a whole range of people throughout the year and depending on the class. It's a nice mix.
Okay, I'm also saying that cuz this morning I walked out of the metro right behind the lesbian couple. ... Wait, I think I actually forgot to mention it in LJ -_- Last Thursday (ironically, just after a bit of a conversation with Hélène about meeting gay people in school), I discovered there's at least one openly gay couple at Lakanal, and they're about my age I think (since they're in my part of the school). I was kinda startled in a wheee kinda way, but didn't do anything but glance at them. And now I'm doing an Aya on them... -_- So this morning I just followed them to school (because I had to go there anyway, mind you, not stalking just yet!), and now I'm obsessed with talking to them. The thing is, how d'you go about doing it? Going to them and going like, "so, yeah, I like girls too-". This is where it links to what I was saying earlier, I have no freaking clue how to approach people who aren't in any of my classes. All right, wanting to talk to them simply because they're going out together doesn't help, but y'know what I mean ;) Mostly, I'm afraid 1) they'd take it badly, 2) they don't wanna talk about it at all, 3) they're not gay anyway (bi, questioning?) and they hate the idea of a "gay conscience" or something of the sort which would make them want to talk to me more than to the next guy, 4) I don't wanna walk in on them spending nice, happy time together.
I know I'm gonna go for it anyway at some point, because – I'm just this way, I guess.
I know. My life's hard.
Totally different thing, I'm off to the internet café getting some info on Barthes' Le plaisir du texte, getting my emails and all. Will be doing a lot of reading tonight I guess. Oh, and am gonna offer to get Over her cap back tomorrow for lunch. Also – Sophie's just offered that we go and see some exhibitions about Iceland before November! So cool. Apparently there are lots of Icelandic stuff going on in Paris right now. :) :)
Looking forward to this weekend :)
School whee. I've managed something pretty interesting when you attend a French prep school : I have no homework left to do. Well, by that I mean precise exercises we have to do for a certain class. Cuz I have a good dozen books to read, a Greek test and 3 presentations to prepare, but that doesn't really count. *pause* This is totally crazy, isn't it?
The funny thing is, most of the stuff is interesting, though my recent lack of sleep has made today's (and a little yesterday's) classes tiresome and tiring. But it's interesting. Spanish's going slow, which is good, I feel like I'm not gonna drown like I thought I would. Which is great, cuz then I might just not give up on my Spanish just yet.
The funniest thing is, I've never worked so much. I mean actual work, not the let's-look-up-a-few-things-on-google-while-AIMing-people kinda work. I suppose it's a good thing, on the whole. I still miss Dr Moore and most Phillips teachers though. They were more laid-back in a serious kinda way :)
On a non-school level, I hung out once more with
twixou and heiki_cherren Sunday night, because south_uist was in Paris for work. We had a nice little evening and enjoyed Chinese food, hmmm. Since I've seen way too little of Sweetie lately, I invited her to come over for dinner, and therefore I had the chance to taste her delicious mashed potatoes. Joss, so good!! I have some left for tonight. Me happy. *g* I almost ruined them, but didn't. Phew. On the "trying to be an adult side", I'm desperately trying to get a phone line installed in my apartment, and will have to skip Litterature class next Tuesday in order to be there when the France Telecom guy comes. I'm kinda afraid my Litt teacher is going to go very very mad when I'll tell her, but, hey! It's not like I have much of a choice. Anyhoot, if everything goes well by Wednesday next week I'll have my very own landline. Feels strange to think about it, in a cool kind of way. Just like it was cool to have my own phone number at Phillips last year. :) I'm kinda sad it's a 01 number though. It's silly, but I've grown to like the 02 99 numbers.
As for the internet, it's a whole other issue. If I have all the cables, all the stuff and all, I should be able to connect in dial-up as soon as my phone's installed. I realized I needed a modem, but I believe Simon has one automatically if it's for dial-up? I really hope so. My dad still wants to go with the FreeBox for the DSL connection, but that'll take over a month to install, so I won't have it till after the All Saints vacation in early November...
Me is going to go back to do some reading, so my evening is free for some Buffy watching. I'll watch Tough Love I think. Have started thinking about the going to England and all, too. I'll have to think about looking up prices and all that stuff soon. Hmm. I realized I have quite a lot of vacation, but I guess it's all gonna be kinda hard to plan and all.
Oh, and also, for those of you who I might not have told because I'm growing tired of the whole business : I'm on the waiting list for the school in Rennes, and chances are I'll get in, but I've decided to let it go and do the whole year here. Different reasons, including : I've started here already, I like having my own place, it's easier to go to England, it's probably much better for my studies. I'm trying not to think about not seeing my bro, my family, my doggie and not riding Glacier for a whole new year. Not to mention the friends I won't see, but – at least I'll get to see other cool people around here.
Today:
Am starting to really know some people in my class. As I thought, I'm not hanging out with Hugues, Alex (who's very probably going to switch to public university) and Pauline. Lately I've been more hanging out with Sophie (really cool girl, I like her style, she's a traveler, too), Barbara, Pauline (another one, and her and Barbara are quite obsessed with sex, which is familiar territory for me :-p), Marion (who has a big bruise and weird bluey thingie on her arm, vaguely reminiscent of Jared Leto's arm in Requiem for a dream, which makes me a little worried, but mostly she's an awesome girl who's lived in so many places), Jeanne, and still Cathy. Am also regularly finding myself talking to lots of other people from my class : with 46 students, I'll probably be getting to know people till January...!
The only thing is, I'm really just hanging out with my class. I can know some HK1 kids who are with me in Spanish, or Greek, but it's very limited. I miss the US on that one, and being able to get to know a whole range of people throughout the year and depending on the class. It's a nice mix.
Okay, I'm also saying that cuz this morning I walked out of the metro right behind the lesbian couple. ... Wait, I think I actually forgot to mention it in LJ -_- Last Thursday (ironically, just after a bit of a conversation with Hélène about meeting gay people in school), I discovered there's at least one openly gay couple at Lakanal, and they're about my age I think (since they're in my part of the school). I was kinda startled in a wheee kinda way, but didn't do anything but glance at them. And now I'm doing an Aya on them... -_- So this morning I just followed them to school (because I had to go there anyway, mind you, not stalking just yet!), and now I'm obsessed with talking to them. The thing is, how d'you go about doing it? Going to them and going like, "so, yeah, I like girls too-". This is where it links to what I was saying earlier, I have no freaking clue how to approach people who aren't in any of my classes. All right, wanting to talk to them simply because they're going out together doesn't help, but y'know what I mean ;) Mostly, I'm afraid 1) they'd take it badly, 2) they don't wanna talk about it at all, 3) they're not gay anyway (bi, questioning?) and they hate the idea of a "gay conscience" or something of the sort which would make them want to talk to me more than to the next guy, 4) I don't wanna walk in on them spending nice, happy time together.
I know I'm gonna go for it anyway at some point, because – I'm just this way, I guess.
I know. My life's hard.
Totally different thing, I'm off to the internet café getting some info on Barthes' Le plaisir du texte, getting my emails and all. Will be doing a lot of reading tonight I guess. Oh, and am gonna offer to get Over her cap back tomorrow for lunch. Also – Sophie's just offered that we go and see some exhibitions about Iceland before November! So cool. Apparently there are lots of Icelandic stuff going on in Paris right now. :) :)
Looking forward to this weekend :)
