It’s a gray, misty-rain day today, not conducive to grabbing the old photo appareil. I’m mulling the school schedule—10 hours daily lecture, followed by a 3 hours conference (professors’ lecture series) 2 days per week, and phonetics for 1 hour each day (where I hopefully will learn to discipline the muscles of tongue, mouth and soft palette such that the sounds of French language will magically issue forth). The pondering is about time for work.
Work requires afternoons be as free as possible, so juggling to keep all balls in the air…school…work…money...shall become a new talent :)) Did someone say, “What about fun?” Concerts, museum shows (Edvard Munch coming up), a trip to Belgium, a trip to Britanny…all these would be great! For now, fun is had by simply being here…stretching a little each day.
An excellent thing happened after class today. Yesterday I met a colleague of my professor, and now I’ve been invited to get together with her, her husband and my professor. The colleague is married to an American, and the three feel it would be good for me to meet them. That is very kind of them…amazingly so.
Fellow students today were more open and chatty…we’re on Day 5. School itself is becoming a little more difficult each day…
Fellow students today were more open and chatty…we’re on Day 5. School itself is becoming a little more difficult each day… Today’s photo selection is primarily of clouds in Paris, to suit the gray day.
Most of these were taken at Parc Andre Citroen,
although the girls on the bridge are near the 
Sorbonne, and the guy on the cell phone is at La Defense.
Enjoy! Ciao maintenant… Lilou
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