Un Grand Poste

Fountain at Versailles 

Even though my boys are thoroughly exhausting, it's time for a proper post.  I've done quite a lot since I've been here... lots of traveling.  So let's jump right in shall we....

Straight From France!

Here are some beautiful pictures taken in Paris this evening! Tonight the theme to the fire work show was Disco! Oh là là! What do you think they listened to?  The BeeGees? Abba?  Donna Summer?  Surely Gloria Gaynor...
Thanks, Julien!

Une Autre Vidéo

So I feel like I have been posting a lot of videos rather than writing some insightful posts.  My last excuse was that I was on vacation. This time, my excuse is that I am suffering from a minor medical procedure and the pain meds aren't quite as strong as I like.
Alors!  Here is a great video of Paris shot entirely on an iPhone.  Enjoy.

Louvre

Live the Language

Hello darlings.  I am on "les vacances" right now.  So not much coming in the way of interesting posts...but the video... oh this video... it kills me.  It's actually an advertisement for some language school that I am not affiliated with in anyway, but damn, what marketing!  I get butterflies in my stomach every time I watch it.  

French Wedding

Okay, so any of you who know me, know that I love weddings.  (Including planning my own nuptials  that is being held at a date TBD).  You also know that I love French anything.  So when I saw these photos of this classic French wedding by Marion Heurteboust I couldn't not post them... 

Photos via Bridal Musings

Travel

Still sick.  Still up to my elbows in kleenex and lukewarm tea.  Still daydreaming about travels.  While I of course plan on seeing what I like to call the, "euro-pass fratastic cities"... London, Rome, Prague, etc... I am dead set on seeing countries that most don't ever make it to...

Le Poéme

My college advisor lent me this book so today I have been reading about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's Junior year in France with Smith College.  I stumbled upon a pretty little bilingual poem she wrote...

Who knows why an April breeze                            Qui sait pourquoi une brise d'Avril 

Never remains                                                          Reste jamais 

Why stars in the trees                                               Pourquoi les étoiles dans les arbres

Hide when it rains                                                    Se cachent quand il pleut 

Love comes along-- casting a spell                           L'amour vient-- jetant un sort

Will it sing you a song                                              Est-ce qu'il vous chantera une chanson 

Will it say farewell                                                   Est-ce qu'il vous dira adieu 

Who can tell                                                             Qui peut le dire (Qui sait?)

Charming, n'est pas?

French Handwriting

When I took French in school, I remember asking my teacher if their handwriting was much different than Americans.  She pulled out a postcard she had from friends in France, and it was amazing to me how different their penmanship looked.

With such a rigid school system, handwriting is still an art form to master in grammer school.  I remember practicing cursive in elementary school, and even though I hated it, how I wish I was forced to have such beautiful script....

Les Fleurs

Parisian flower markets.  Just because.