school in france

it's the first official week of classes, and the hours for one of the classes STILL are not posted.

:: blinks, deadpan::

bienvenue en france.

wanted: one "lettre de motivation" and C.V.

anyone free to help me write a letter of motivation and my C.V. (resume) in french???

yikes!

(i'm applying for school next year)

university update

literature exam arrived in the mail today.
verdict: passed.

yay.

exams

exams are over, now it's just the waiting game.

for those keeping track, i've passed 1/2 the exams. the rest are unknown.

stay tuned for future updates.

(and i SQUEAKED by in translation... :: shifty eyes ::)

one more week

exam week.
here i come.

(after two weeks of holidays? WHAT were they thinking???)

one exam down, all the rest to go

phonologie exam finished.

class passed. grade unknown.

lots more exams this week - then two weeks of break - then a week more of exams.

after that...
HOLIDAY!
bwhahahahah.

although i shouldn't laugh just yet.

back.
to.
the.
books.

lost in translation

anyone got a good translation for "rain catcher?" :)

the all-encompassing pencil case

i keep meaning to write up all these things about uni, but then i never get around to it. (mostly because i'm a slacker, but that is neither here nor there)

so today i'm posting about the pencil case, or in the french la trousse

ah, the ubiquitous pencil case. the constant companion of french students everywhere.

this is what is currently in mine:

school agenda
post-its
whiteout
paperclips
cough drops
2 red magical pens
1 black magical pen
series of little scented colored pens
chapstick
mini stapler
metal ruler
4 highlighters
scissors
paperclips
glue stick
2 pencils
pencil sharpener
mini moleskin
eraser/rubber

(i had a mini "scotch" (they don't call it scotch tape) but it's walked off somewhere.)

at first i thought things like say, the glue stick, seemed a bit weird to carry around in a pencil case after one was, say, out of elementary/primary school, but i must confess that i've used it, or shared it with others at school, no less than 5 times in the last 2 weeks. and the scissors too.

the scissors and glue lesson i learned the first week of registering for classes. you are supposed to have with you two photographs of yourself to attach to your "fiches", and woe be to you if you haven't already cut them out to the prescribed size.

(in fact, for ALL the classes, the teachers have a "fiche" on each student, with their name, address, studies, work conflicts, phone number, email, etc, etc., and photo. which i thought odd at first, i mean it makes sense, but i've just never had a professor ask for my photo before, so i wasn't prepared for it. i'm not saying it's WEIRD, i'm just saying it's DIFFERENT.)

what's in a name?

the other day, in my phonology class, (the one where i learn to pronounce things as a brit - jolly good fun), one of the example sentences "Does Peter live in Liverpool?" prompted this question from the prof:

"Do you know what the word is for someone who comes from Liverpool?"

and so, i'm asking you.
do YOU know?

comment away people!
"and this is for posterity, so please, no googling."

this morning, in commenting on this question to kimmay, the following question came up:

"what do you call people from different states?"

i knew "michigander", being one myself and all.
kim was a bit fuzzy on what one from arizona is called. (arizonan or arizonian)

but do you know all the others?

we didn't, but we do now.