OakYardigans

Some Froshfrosh at Harvard livin it up in the shittay dorms

En s’exposant au monde, l’individu trouverait peu à peu son orientation, et comment garder son équilibre.

—Senett

les projets final!

  • matt: cafés de paris, mouvements intellectuels [parisian cafés and intellectual movements]
  • jiyae: espaces publique [public spaces]
  • mai: quartier vietnamien [vietnamese quarter]
  • nephat: les études / éducation des africains en paris [studies and education of africans in paris]
  • eliza: les juifs en france [jewish people in france]
  • lisa: gastronomie, cuisine française [gastronomy and french cuisine]
  • amalia: les rapports entre les gens à la table pendant dîner [the relationships between people at the table during dinner]
  • michael: basket et hip hop [basketball and hip hop culture]
  • madelyn: les lieus dans les films français [the real locations in french films]
  • katie: ex-pâts à paris, surtout hemingway [expatriots in paris, specifically hemingway]
  • madeline: communauté des impressionists [impressionist community]
  • victoria: théâtre aux années cinquante [theatre during the ‘50’s]
  • rumur: le peintre richter, spécifiquement 9-11 [the painter richter]

(there are more, but those are the ones so far. COOL.)

Figuring out Fall

Hello!
So yes, I am this organized [insane]; I have basically figured out my fall courses.

Italian

choosing between C, 30, 40 (apparently 30 is awful but that’s about where I’d fit…)

French

choosing between French Feminism and French witches….yes, you read that right.

Anthropology

Language and Culture intro!

Gen Eds

trying to take two, but as you can see, I already have 3 courses which would technically put me over the limit but….definitely taking Problems in K-12 Education (US and the World) and hoping to take Stat 101 Psychological Statistics (which would count for my math…I don’t actually want to take it, but I’m not ever going to want to)

VES

I really want to take Silkscreen; only problem is that it would take up my LIFE. Also there is a loitering class…um, yes. 

Bah. We will see.

Any way I combine these, none of my classes would meet on Friday. HOLLAH!!!!!!

So today (Day 21) we went to Giverny, where Claude Monet lived and painted the majority of his paintings, especially in the later years of his life where he became more impressionistic as he became more blind. It was rainy, but beautiful, and very nice to go to the country via the clean SNCF trains.

Hey! These are from Day 20…I can write more (ergh, maybe) tomorrow, in the afternoon, but we ended up having one of the program director’s friends come in to teach us about theatre. He’s really well-known (I totally forget his name) and helped us run through some Molière and Jacques. Anyways, it was an awesome class and here are some photos.

metro

drive to montreal.

get on corsair flight to orly.

get off orly, look for train station.

RER-B: orly—> antony

RER-B: antony—> chatelet

A (towards CDG Étoile & La Defense): chatelet—> opera 

3 (towards pont de levallois bécon): opera—> malesherbes

walk to host family!

panic, part two

Coucou cherie!

Je suis très occupée avec mes travailles, mais c’est pour beaucoup d’argent alors c’est pas un problème, même si ce saurait trop difficile. Alors il y’a un problème plus grand, qui me fait mal, donc c’est quoi? Mon luggage! J’ai seulement une valise, pas deux, et j’ai besoin de voyager à autobus alors plus que ça serait trop de toute façon. Bah. Je crois que ca serait difficile de re-faire ma valise :( mais il faut que je le fasse. C’est tout.

Ciao!

moving out

The lighting in my room is horrible— my lamps are all gone, and now I only have the fluorescent wall lamps to brighten the bare walls of my cell. I’ve packed up all my things and moved them away, save for a month’s worth of clothes, my linens, and some other necessities. Soon I’ll be relocating to another empty room with horrible lighting, and I’ll spend my days cleaning more empty rooms in preparation for new inhabitants. Next year, someone will live in the room I called home (or, more likely, use it as their common room instead) and I will live in someone else’s room, where they studied and slept and were passionate. While talking to a close friend tonight, the topic of Commencement and dissolving relationships came up. His friends were having trouble letting go, saying that they’d never see their friends again, and he said he replied, first warning that he was acting cold-hearted, with something along the lines of ‘it doesn’t really matter.’ I had to agree with him; there’s nothing we can do about time passing, about friendships passing, about the waves of people that come in and out of our lives. Our relationships are only relevant in the present, where they are still alive. We’ve just got to keep floating in our sea and see whatever flotsam happens to get stuck in our current whirlpool.