- This page is still in progress. Enjoy the live links and stay tuned for more.
Being foreign
- the “oh my god” moment
- french laundry
- the most frightening thing I’ve ever done in a foreign country
- the hick from manhattan
- fear of dying (grappling with getting my hair dyed in France)
- back to my roots (getting my hair dyed in France)
- my own personal masterpiece (in L’Oreal Excellence cuive d’or 7.3) (dying my own hair in France)
- seeing God (about religious differences)
- bridging cultural chasms (dinner with the neighbors)
- keeping up avec les Jones (garden envy)
- international political summit (a deep political discussion not spoken in our mother tongues)
learning the language
- a quick language lesson
- comme tu dit “idiot?”
- international political summit (two women discuss politics in not their native languages)
- you say la tomate, I say le tomate (gender confusion)
- parlez vous boucher? (how to speak butcher in french)
- handy online transator
- pronunciation help
- Help learning French (free!)
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getting around
- driving in France
- I made it to Plan de la Tour! can somebody airlift me out of here?
- the road to Butry (my first brave walk to a neighboring village)
triumph! (my first suburban train ride)
stalling (roadtrip to brugge/bruges part 1)
lost in the nether regions (roadtrip to bruges part 2)
if it’s 7:00pm tuesday, it must be belgium (again) –roadtrip to brugge/bruges, the shocking conclusion)
a sign from the gods (how I missed the last train to Auvers and still got home)
transillien train schedules, maps, times, info
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money matters
- change you can believe in
- the most frightening thing I’ve ever done in a foreign country
- the euro and you
- france on $1.40, no $1.43, no $1.46 a day
- currency converter
