Friday 22 December 2006

Christmas in Poland?

Yep!

Tomorrow morning I'm jumping on a plane, and after a 'try and squeeze everything in Berlin into 24 hours' day I'm heading to Poznan, Poland. My wonderful friend, and fellow trainee in Paris (well technically not anymore) has very very kindly invited to back for Christmas with his family. I can't wait, I'm so excited!!! Polish carols, home cooked meals, snow (hopefully), seeing Pawel!!! Polish food, vodka, hot cups of tea.

I think Christmas is going to be really great this year. It's so nice to spend Christmas with family, even if it's not my own (lounging by the pool drinking champagne).

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Wednesday 20 December 2006

Quote of the Day

Juliana: (about France) This is the first english speaking country I've lived in or even visited.

And I thought one of the reasons we all moved here was to improve our french?? It's kind of disgusting how easy it is to make yourself a life in Paris with very little or even no french.

Note to self: Must make more of an effort to use my french.

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Wednesday 6 December 2006

Do you ever wonder why? I do, ALL the time...

This has got to be one of my most over used phrases now that I live it Paris. It just perfectly sums up so many moments here. I wish I could take credit for it but Jess was saying it way before I was.
Here is a list of some of the 'do you ever wonder why' moments we've witnessed so far (though I have to admit I didn't see all of these first hand, I can assure you that they actually happened):

  • trail of raw chicken wings (like bread crumbs in Hansel & Gretel) in the metro station
  • flyer for someone's lost pet, but not a bird or a dog or a cat, an asian elephant
  • man walking a goat on the metro
  • there is always a queue out the door and down the street for the butcher on my street (how can the meat be that good?)
  • a man walking down the street with an i.v. drip coming out of his arm
  • the Malaysia non-french speaking magician at our favourite indian restaurant performing magic tricks for us
  • the guy that runs our favourite indian place speaking 9 languages including farsi
  • a guy wearing only his underwear standing outside the AirFrance building near Le Grand Palais
  • watching parents encourage their children to pee in public

Oh my god, there have been so many more than just these! I wish I could remember, but I think you get the idea.

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