My sister in Paris is making a whole series of beautiful "Parisian gardens" drawings and she sends some samples to me, which brighten up my day, so I thought I'd share one with you, if my sister doesn't mind...The situation in Paris has taken us by surprise - by "us" I mean the French crew. What's happening is a little crazy. Apparently in Lyons a group of people asked the people who were on a bus to leave, just so that they could burn the bus! And then there's the problem of how to punish these people - is sending them to prison for protesting against the government really the answer? But then they destroyed hospitals and elementary schools and other people's vehicles, which are all terrible crimes... And then what is the government supposed to do? Say that these people were right and try to fix the societal problems (unemployment, poor housing, education, etc.), but then that means that the next time the people are unhappy they'll know that burning everything works! Such a mess.
Only have two hours of classes today. I was able to sleep in until 8:30 AM which was nice. I just ate my multi-vitamin and I seriously think it makes me sick - I feel nautious!
I look so much forward to my instant 3-in-1 coffee (coffee/milk/sugar) every morning I sometimes scare myself. What will I do when I go back to Vancouver and I won't have it? And I won't have baoze every morning (in a plastic bag)? And I won't have a TV to watch the news in French....
There are also lots of things that aren't so great about this place. Apart from the glass sinks that are a hassle to clean, the washing machine only washes my clothes with COLD water, which means my clothes are never really clean. When Loic told Bob (a Chinese friend) about this, Bob was incredulous: "You mean in Europe all the washing machines use HOT water??? Wow!"
There's no hot water in the kitchen sink, the pipe that goes from the hot water faucet leads to nowhere under the sink, it's pretty funny. It's not so great for washing dishes...
This place is dry, dry, dry! It's so dry my hands are cracking and bleeding! So for the first time in my life I'm wearing hand cream.
Go to get ready for class. Hope to hear from you soon!
posted by Caro at 9:16 AM
4 Comments:
elle trouve ça splendide la sœur !
& si tu réussis à les vendre, on fait 50/50.
bises,
claire
paris.
the reason the people who are burning are burning, is that they & there families before them are the one in the bad housing, "bad" neighbourhoods (ghettoes in fact), zero social consideration, rascisme & now massive unemployment...the process has taken 30 years before a tiny minority started burning. pretty patient people i'd say.
i live in paris.
Hey Caroline,
You do remember you're from Vancouver right =b? Baoze aren't that hard to come by and the 3-in-1 coffee should be in asian super markets.
The 3-in-1 coffee is from Maxwell! Should have no difficulty finding it anywhere, but it's just that I won't buy it in Vancouver because it's simply not the same thing...
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