to France
I'm off to France for a week! I've never been to France before, unless you count the couple of hours I spent there on a jaunt from a summer school in Geneva as a teenager. I may have once changed flights in Orly, but I'm not quite sure.
I'm spending a very jetlagged Sunday and part of Monday in Paris itself.
For the rest of the week, I'm going to be at a scientific meeting en provence.
I would be practicing my French, except I've been told that I will merely be mocked for my bad French, and should just stick with being a gauche américaine. (Or is that américaine gauche?)
Son the Younger wants me to bring along one of the Madeline books, which are set in Paris, of course. I'm tempted to visit all the monuments depicted in the books and take pictures for the kids. And of course, the internets have already thought of this for me.
Anyway, back to working on my talk.
I'm spending a very jetlagged Sunday and part of Monday in Paris itself.
For the rest of the week, I'm going to be at a scientific meeting en provence.
I would be practicing my French, except I've been told that I will merely be mocked for my bad French, and should just stick with being a gauche américaine. (Or is that américaine gauche?)
Son the Younger wants me to bring along one of the Madeline books, which are set in Paris, of course. I'm tempted to visit all the monuments depicted in the books and take pictures for the kids. And of course, the internets have already thought of this for me.
Anyway, back to working on my talk.