Still doing my best to make the best of France -- I ate at the oldest restaurant in the city (founded 1686) and went to Notre Dame. The pigeons here are really lazy and dumb. I went right up to one and poked it and it didn't even fly away.
Also went to Pere Lachaise Cemetery for the second time -- still I cannot find...
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Also went to Pere Lachaise Cemetery for the second time -- still I cannot find...
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Well Paris is no fun at all at this point. From Wednesday all I've really done is stuff related to getting a place to stay, with no success. It is far too expensive to keep staying in hotels and the checkout vs. check in times are unfavorable. My hopes of being able to stay at the Territory are no more, and the idiot waited so...
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oldernow:
check out communes in northern scotland - Inverness, Thurso, Ullapool etc. Findhorn ... "self-catering" cottages can be quite cheap and it's not that expensive to get there from Paris.
Fuuuuuuuuuuck.
Need a place in Paris by Monday. The only apartments and rooms I'm finding in my price range similar to the place that didn't work out, is stuff obviously posted by Nigerian scam artists.
Need a place in Paris by Monday. The only apartments and rooms I'm finding in my price range similar to the place that didn't work out, is stuff obviously posted by Nigerian scam artists.
So on the one hand I've only been in Paris for two days. On the other I'm really finding my French language to be SO substantially worse than I'd expected, that I rather regret having come.
My brain does not seem to be able to reverse the order of my vocab words at all, so even something I can read quite easily like "Ou est...
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My brain does not seem to be able to reverse the order of my vocab words at all, so even something I can read quite easily like "Ou est...
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ron4164:
I guess it would help to speak like the locals! 
Take care.
Take care.
thebeliever:
I had the same experience with "ou"; which made it hard to ask for directions.
Yep, there's bound to be some expats, etc, who'd be happy to help. I'd check out a language school, where there are bound to be many transplants who've recently been through the same thing, plus some vets.
I also know some people in Paris, if you get desperate, they may be able to dispense some good advice.
Yep, there's bound to be some expats, etc, who'd be happy to help. I'd check out a language school, where there are bound to be many transplants who've recently been through the same thing, plus some vets.
I also know some people in Paris, if you get desperate, they may be able to dispense some good advice.
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ihsv1683:
Did you go to the top viewing deck and have see the views?
mobprod:
How the hell did you get to Paris? Perhaps I need to look at your last couple journals. Awesome, regardless.
Had fun today in New Orleans. I was up early and walked around the French Quarter -- officially I was on business (I had a gambling charm to make for a client and wanted to get it done before heading to France.) Still, I had a bit of fun. Maybe the thing I like about New Orleans is the people -- they are very friendly,...
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ihsv1683:
Bon voyage mademoiselle!
In New Orleans. Admittedly am not enjoying it so far... too much luggage. I was going to go to an opera event tonight but my backpack broke at the airport, so several hours devoted to that... (had to MacGyver it: fixed it with duct tape and dental floss -- I hope.) Then the rest of the night devoted to the root of that problem, namely...
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oldernow:
send it UPS; it's cheaper - or send it on ahead by same carrier.
Okay... I have much business ahead of me.
On the morning of the 13th I go to New Orleans for 2 days. On the 15th I go from New Orleans to Miami to London, where I'll arrive at about 7 AM on the 16th. I get to then kill about 12 hours there before getting onto a train to Paris.
I'm currently expecting to stay...
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On the morning of the 13th I go to New Orleans for 2 days. On the 15th I go from New Orleans to Miami to London, where I'll arrive at about 7 AM on the 16th. I get to then kill about 12 hours there before getting onto a train to Paris.
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wearytraveler:
Sounds completely awesome. A trip like that and where you're staying make where I'm at unbearable.
Good God. I think going to France is actually going to happen!
wearytraveler:
I'm impressed, intrigued, and envious all at the same time. When do you start packing?
prussia:
wow! great! have a nice trip!
I'm wondering about maybe going to France. If I'm not going to be able to do something responsible like find a place to live in, then my irresponsibility should take me somewhere I'd actually really like to be. (Plus I could improve my French a bit more there.) Certainly just imagining that as a possibility has been cheering me up more than trying to find...
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wearytraveler:
I'll bet you look like a million bucks in those gloves and your black dress. You're a woman after my own heart.
ron4164:
Of course we have the internet here.
At least, I think that's what it is!
Of course we have the internet here.
At least, I think that's what it is!
I feel pretty confident I am not going to New Orleans. I was hoping to go there to find a place to move to -- a city where Voodoo Practitioner is a semi-legitimate career seemed appealing -- but it's way too pricy and scary there, and apparently too hard to find places that are appropriate, so there doesn't seem like any point. The notion of...
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ihsv1683:
you've probably heard it all before...but, don't give up.....these things take time to get off the ground, be patient and keep on fighting!! Situations will change!!
oldernow:
I loved Diva so much I bought the soundtrack asap, and when it finally became available on VHS I bought that too. it is a perfect film, visually, emotionally, and the music - everything from the diva to the accordion music that the ice-pick guy is always listening to. and yes, I was thinking of that scene where "Super-Jules" takes his tape recorder into the auditorium... and that scene where all his tapes are festooned everywhere when I was writing this.