They seemed to like being asked questions too, so I don't feel bad about us totally digging at them XD
Q: What kinds of music do you like?
A: Coldplay, Red Hot Chili Peppers, etc.
Q: Where do you live?
A: Close to Vincent, who lives in Saint Germaine. I can see the Eiffel Tower from my window; I've noticed in a lot of films they make the tower out to be really huge and tall, like the biggest thing in Paris...but it's not big at all, like...ten stairs and ten ladder rungs (obviously this was an exaggeration to its smallness, cause we all laughed XD).
Q: Is it true that the driving age in France is eighteen?
A: Yes. But it doesn’t matter, because most of the time we walk anyways. Everything is close by, so you can walk there…we also take the train a lot or the bus, or our bikes.
Q: What about cars?
A: Well, the cars in France are really tiny, because we have really tiny streets.
Q: Are Americans fat?
A: In some places more than others. It’s really funny how the Americans and the French have these stereotypes of each other…Americans are fat, the French are bitches (exact words haha)…and most of it is true.
Q: What is the food in France like?
A: It’s good. A lot different from American food.
Q: What’s your favorite American food (I really expected them to say McDonalds. I don’t know why)?
A: Reese’s peanut butter cups. (Here is a lot of confusion because Vincent didn’t know what they were—it was neat though because we got to hear it explained in French. After confirming that he is not allergic to peanuts, Kaytie resolved to buy us all some…score!)
Q: How long have you been taking English?
G: Since fourth grade. That’s usually when we are introduced to English. But even with this, French people can’t really speak English that well at all. Most of us sound like (adopts French accent) “I em Franche. I em from Fronce.” (That’s what it sounded like).
V: For four years. I’m fifteen. (<--Has the accent XD)
Q: Do you speak any other languages?
G: I’m learning German but I can’t speak it well at all.
V: I’m taking Spanish.
Q: What’s the school system like in France? Are the Grades the same for ages?
A: The grades are the same, like, 9th 10th and 11th. But we have four years of Junior High and three of High School. We have to take a test to get into High School but…it’s no big deal, everyone passes. School starts at eight and ends at five. And, our holidays are different from American ones. We have them four times a year, February, May, August, and November (I think this is right, I only know February for sure o.o ).
Q: What types of clothes are worn in France?
A: Well, there’s a lot of the French brands, (names off a lot of brands I can’t remember) but there are American ones as well. I like the ones like Polo, and Abercrombie and Fitch.
Q: Are there thrift stores in France?
A: Yes, but only a few compared to America (HAHAHA).
Q: What do you want to do as an adult or in college?
G: I’m interested in Stock. I think it would be funny to go to the New York Stock Exchange and go “Hello! I’m French!”
V: I like economics and business as well.
Hehe if you guys want me to ask them anything else I totally will ^^ they like telling us stuff about France, I hope they appreciate our interest :3
Drama camp is super fun :) Cipriano's there, so is Taylor...Zack Schubert's not coming till next week...and Isaiah's not doing it! *airfist!* And there's a kid from France who's in it (sawheeeeet)...and then a lot of my old friends. It's like we never left XD...and we're doing "Annie Get Your Gun" which is that show with the song "I've got rhythm...I've got music"...I had no idea. There's this one girl who's super cute and fun and really high energy who's already reviewed the script and Annie's character and all the songs and saw the play *breatthhhh*....zomg I'm not sure whether I like her...she's really serious but it's like "YAY OMG YAYYYYY"
...and I stabbed myself with a pencil!! Ouch ouch blooodddd >.< Wow, we're off to a great start!
.....haha
>>> So that's it. Lol Cipriano's a pretty hilarious dude that both of us have happened to take classes with, he's pretty nice ^^(I thought he was a year older but it turns out he's a junior next year..o.o)...
Isaiah's that kid who I really liked but would never call me, and he said to me that if Rachel (a co-director who this year is official director) was going to direct, he wasn't going to do it anymore. LOL.
That kid from France is pretty cool. His name is Vincent (wtf, why are all the foreign kid's names vincent??), and he's from Saint Germaine. It was cool hearing him say it :3 I wonder if he's heard of Manu or Christophe or Le Roi Soleil? o.o I might ask him heehee...
Damn, I really stabbed myself with a pencil >.< I was leaning forward sitting on stage and my knee shoved a really sharp pencil directly into the place right below my palm...damn, no bandaids...any lower and I would have bled A LOT. Lol "i'm dyinggggg" hows THAT for drama? :D
Haha it turns out that "Annie Get Your Gun" music is right in my range, and I can sing the notes really loud and everything, it's awesome. I only have to work on my breathing :D ...much harder than one would think -_-
I'm readeh fo' tomorrah!
....that really excited drama girl has taken four years of french, too....damn her -_-
ELEPHONTS POMG
And I'm afraid to ask...
Livejournal is being one slow fucker today.
BERRIES AND CREAMMMMM
Also:
Good Quotes to write stories about:
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Not afraid to fall/not afraid to rise.
Gaelic Storm-Before the Night is Over
You must look into people as well as at them.
Lord Chesterfield
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russel Lowell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipZDG6__Z
Is he too sexy for his hair, too? XDD Yes I LOVE this song.
I love how it just says SHOT right in the middle, randomly. *shot*
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/5351
OMG IT IS JUST SO BEAUTFUL. I can't wait until the inking comes in the mail :) And I get a free keychain! w00t!
I dance. I dance. I dance. all. night. XD YUSH
Haha it is the best! so here we go!!!
I have already established that I don't count school books or manga. Just doesn't count. Sometimes, though, I feel that I should count Death Note...yeah I know whatever everyone has read it blah blah blah you're nothing special...but DUDE. That series has so many freaking words in it. It actually got to the point that sometimes happens with my school books, where I'm reading it but I've realized that my mind has gone somewhere else, so I have to flip back a few pages in order to figure out where the crap I am. I still like it, but I still don't think I'm going to count it...
But yes.
Books read so far:
(edit) In the Miso Soup! (I forgot somehow :( )
Sisterhood-Forever in Blue
Nightlife
The Skull of Truth (Yes! I might as well count it <3 I loved it tons...)
Moonshine
The Center of the World
Artemis Fowl 5
The Prophet of Yonwood
Reading but not done:
Love and Louis XIV
The Dante Club
Athenais
Einstien's Dreams (just give me like, 20 minutes)
Gathering Blue
1984
edit: Just got "Pierced" by Murakami Ryu :)
Yeah a lot are pretty easy but screw that. They're books, and I'm counting them.
So pretty much, now that I'm done with that, here comes a little review for "The Center of The World"! By Andreas Steinhofel (yes, a dude)
So this is pretty much about a 17 kid named Phil who lives in god knows where, I think germany. But after a while it is pretty clear that this was meant to be in English, due to some rhyming schemes and fairly hilarious mix-ups. But I checked and it is a translation from something else.
So anyway, Phil is a gay kid with a twin (non - identical) sister, and their mother has quite a "loose" reputation if you get my drift. While across the pond in America the twin's father is somewhere, having been abandoned by their mother when she was 17. She doesn't tell Phil or Dianna (twin sis) anything about him whatsoever.
Meanwhile, Phil is absolutely in love with Nicholas, who turns out that he likes Phil and they go on a bajillion sexual excursions together that seem physical rather than emotional. I mean, for goodness sakes. They kiss for the first time long after they've had sex. And if you think that this book is anything close to erotica, you're dead wrong. The most detail he goes into anything between them is "we made love three times". Woot.
So yeah, there are lots of those side stories. Oh wait. In fact, there are about a thousand. If you took all of the little side stories and tangents and stripped away to the present goings-on, you'd have a book that would last about 20 pages, and I'm dead serious. But no, it's around 450. Hm. If you didn't like Catch-22 specifically for the tangents, this book will kill you like a mother.
Aside from this, the writing is rather beautiful, and it is very easy to get attached to the characters. I did enjoy many of the stories, and they did prove fairly important. I did enjoy this, actually, I read it in the vicinity of 29 hours. So it's fairly easy. It is a bit predictable in the proximity of a few pages, but definitely not to the point where you can tell exactly what's going on in the next chapter before you read it.
I really did like this story. It was like an annoying friend, who at first you're disappointed at having, but then you come to appreciate all the life lessons it gives you. While I was sad at the ending (no one dies, don't worry) it was also fulfilling at the same time. How do I feel about this book? Let me put it this way: If I hadn't yet read it but I knew the difference between the me before reading it and the me after reading it, I would regret no having read it yet.
So, people, go read it. BTW, it's absolutely jam-packed with...what? Yes! Oh crap I forgot the word. But the definition is "the appearance of truth"....
V? Oh crap, I forgot...
I love you so much
If rain was a man I would snog him. snog him goooood.
lololol
A while back I saw some kind of challenge to read 50 books in a year, including manga and plays and things like that that wouldn't normally be considered books. umm this was a long while back, like, when I started the school year--so below, that's what I'm counting. Soo I finally have decided to make a list thus far on the accomplishments:
This school year the books I have read thus far:
Madame Bovary
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Dr. Zchivago
Furuba 1-15
Hana Kimi 1-15 (?)
Death Note 1-12
Chitra
Medea
Oedipus
Antigone
Forever In Blue
A Streetcar Named Desire
Anthem
Artemis Fowl...5? is it 5? yeah.
The Prophet of Yonwood
Let's add up here:
Total in the List: 54--> Well I guess I made it. But to be truthful:
-8 for school (forced reading does not count here!!) --> 46
and honestly, do Manga count? I mean, I definitely view them as graphic novels, but as book books? They're illustrations--not that that isn't really awesome, but the words are often kept to a minimum. Just to be on the bare truthful side, -all the manga books (I know I didn't even include a few up there in the first place):
46-42= 4
*looks at result*
*screams*
okay, okay..let's calm down here, I'm sure there are some books that I've read in my free time that I forgot to include!!
*checks*
there are none.
4 BOOKS, PEOPLE. 4. I have so much time over the weekend sometimes it scares me. (Not all the time, though. But alot of times it's in inconvenient and uncomfortable places, like "I can't really do anything, there's nothing possible')
But, you know, it adds up a teensy bit if you add the school books that I enjoyed immensly. Take Anthem, for example. Holy Crap. Holy Bazookas. Sweet hot diggity hot dogs. That was a great book.
I think, if I'm crazy enough, I'm going to try and do some more ACTUAL READING. Ummm Kelsey you need to bring to me Cantarella, by the way...XDDD
off!!
I love how you come on monthly for no reason and blast my ears out!
I just think it's great I have no idea why the hell you're around!
BEEEPPP
BEEEEEPPP
NYAAAAAAH
HWHEJLKEEEEP
I want to be just like you when I grow up!
REMEMBER!??!
Like the skyyy above!
I love you, i love you...really really love you so...
Eggg eggggg mmmmm yummy!
IT IS NEARLY MIDNIGHT and it is scaring the shit out of me because it sounds like it's right outside my window and now I'm afraid to pull back the windowshade.
save me!! ;(
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