Adventures

Flowers

I went to the market this morning and couldn't resist buying myself some flowers. 14 long-stemmed white roses for 1€ and a little dish garden for 6€.

I had to cut the roses down quite a bit, because i don't have a vase (they're in my French measuring glass).

Bits & Bobs

Get your very own French presidential sound bite as your ring tone:
http://www.ina.fr/elections/index.php?vue=mobiles

In other news, i have received my first piece of French junk mail that was actually addressed to me: an offer for 8000€ in credit from a company named Cofidis.

Oh, and i have been offered a job at a summer school just outside Winchester.

I think i’m going to be sick…

Those of you who know me well know that my regular breakfast in the US was granola and yogurt. The granola, specifically, was Heartland Brand Original Granola Cereal, which, of course, isn't available in my local Intermarché.

Yesterday i finally broke down and bought the closest thing i could find to this cereal. It's Jordans Country Crisp fort en chocloat noir. Yes, you read that correctly, "strong in dark chocolate". Jordans is a British company that has cleverly found a way to market their somewhat healthy cold cereal to French people: add pieces of chocolate! I couldn't find anything on Jordans' website that admitted to this particular variety, so i had to take a picture of my own box.

Today i tried this vaguely granola-ish cereal with some yogurt. It was DISGUSTING.

In a misguided attempt to get rid of the taste while still putting something solid in my stomach, i opened a single-serving packet of potato chips. Roasted chicken flavor. The first one or two were awful (contaminated with the residual chocolate/cereal/yogurt combo). I soldiered on, however, and by the second half of the bag, i was starting to enjoy the chicken flavor. I don't want to know how they get chicken flavoring into a potato chip, though.

So, if anyone in the States feels like mailing a box of granola to France, my address is 23 rue Henri Messager, Appt 3, 76170 Lillebonne.

P.S. I have put a few new pictures on the Lillebonne photos page.

Norm!

Finally, i am a regular somewhere. Granted, i don't go anywhere, so that makes it fairly difficult to be a regular, but i have done it at my local boulangerie.

I had barely uttered "bonjour" when the owner got out a small pastry bag and told me they only had miniature chocolatines left today. I happily bought two (for less than one big one costs), and jauntily walked home feeling KNOWN.

It's the little things in life, you know?

These children are turning me grey!

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be coming out in a streak, which would be really cool.

I wonder if it's their constant chatter or their inability to comprehend English or French that's doing it.

Despite the sound of that, i'm enjoying meeting some different students now that my new schedule has started.