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comments about France from a young Australian.

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Reply Mon 14 May, 2007 05:12 pm
aussie girl in France wrote:
I have experienced some amazing things and been to amazing places. And of course, met some amazing people. Shakespeare's Globe Theatre was interesting, Perpignan and Carcassonne were beautiful, London was just as charming as the films and Paris is a city saturated with history and character! And of course how can we forget the Belgian waffles? I have conducted an orchestra, been part of a theatre montage in French, been on a 35 kilometre bike ride in the country, eaten a rabbits liver and so many other amazing things that I can not possibly fit them all here!
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Reply Fri 25 May, 2007 06:47 am
I've loved reading bits of her adventure...

I'm off to do a semseter at Université Robert Schuman in Strasbourg next year
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Reply Fri 25 May, 2007 06:49 am
Uni exchange ffy?
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Fri 25 May, 2007 06:52 am
ffydownunder wrote:

I'm off to do a semseter at Université Robert Schuman in Strasbourg next year


Strasbourg III - studying law?
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Reply Fri 25 May, 2007 06:56 am
yes uni exchange... between Bond Uni and URS.

not for law (fingers crossed I'll be off to Duke in NC, USA for that), for french - part of my BA in International Relations and French. So I'll probably pick up some IR subjects and get credit for both IR and french - yeehaw!
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Reply Fri 25 May, 2007 07:08 am
I have a Canadian friend studying IR or at least something similar in Canada.

Big cultural/climate shift from Brisvegas.

Is Nat or Sally looking after you?
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Reply Fri 25 May, 2007 09:06 am
to confuse matters further... I'm a scottish international student over here! So I'm kinda looking forward to getting back to europe and a northern hemisphere climate!



and no.... the irony of going to the other side of the world, to study languages and get sent back to europe for a semester isn't lost on me!!! hehehe
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ffydownunder
 
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Reply Fri 25 May, 2007 09:07 am
PS - who are Nat and Sally?
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McTag
 
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Reply Fri 25 May, 2007 04:50 pm
ffydownunder wrote:
to confuse matters further... I'm a scottish international student over here! So I'm kinda looking forward to getting back to europe and a northern hemisphere climate!



and no.... the irony of going to the other side of the world, to study languages and get sent back to europe for a semester isn't lost on me!!! hehehe


This sounds like a very attractive course you got onto.

How useful is it?
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Reply Fri 25 May, 2007 05:08 pm
joefromchicago wrote:
Lord Ellpus wrote:
A brand of lemonade called "Pshitt" always makes me smile.

That's very weird. I have an English translation of Jarry's Ubu Roi where the title character's famous "merdre!" is translated as "pshitt!"


Ooh, King Ubu! Have to read that again! Used to love it in high school.
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Reply Sun 27 May, 2007 06:09 am
McTag wrote:

This sounds like a very attractive course you got onto.

How useful is it?


I love my course... love my uni as well! and a law degree will hopefully still be useful by the time I graduate (although with all these semesters abroad who knows!! heheheh)!!!

I'm doing a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and a Bachelor of Arts (BA IR/FRNL) with double major in International Relations & French at Bond University on Australia's Gold Coast. Semester abroad in Strsabourg is compulsory for the French language major; and a semester abroad during the law degree is encouraged by the faculty.

homework is also encouraged by the faculty - so I'm off to do mine!!!!!
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Reply Tue 29 May, 2007 07:28 pm
Aussie student wrote
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Reply Tue 31 Jul, 2007 09:19 am
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I have spent the last two weeks with my host family in a rustic little house we have rented near Auch.

We are in the heart of duck country, and every day we eat fois gras (duck liver pâté) and duck meat of some description. In a restaurant I ate... wait for it... a kebab stick of duck hearts. Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why do they never tell me what I have eaten until AFTERWARDS?????
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Francis
 
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Reply Tue 31 Jul, 2007 09:28 am
Because foreigners always have bad prejudices about good food, based on PC ideas...
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Tue 31 Jul, 2007 09:43 am
"Brochettes de cœurs de canard" that was, I suppose?
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Francis
 
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Reply Tue 31 Jul, 2007 09:52 am
Je le crois aussi, Walter!
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Reply Thu 6 Sep, 2007 05:25 am
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school has started again.

My class: Terminale Music And Dance Techniques.
My subjects this semester: Maths, French, World Studies, Philosophy, PE, History of music, Physics, Choir, Music Analysis and Specialist Philosophy. My afternoon music classes are all at the conservatory.

Oh and in English
We are working on basic conversation. IE: What is your name? Where do you come from? etc. A far cry from the joys of European English. Then the teacher decided to randomly test us on the questions:

Teacher: Taylor Jennyfer... Where do you come from?
Me: Australia.
Teacher: *CYNICALLY* Right... are you sure you are supposed to be in this class? I think you should concentrate on this course a bit harder...
Me: I am Australian. An exchange student from Australia.
Teacher: Oh... *looks visibly uncomfortable at the thought of having a native English speaker in his class.*

The people in my new class are friendly and most of the teachers (the maths one is scary).
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YellowRosebud
 
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Reply Fri 7 Sep, 2007 01:39 pm
I loved France, I went a while back, but gosh that was an awesome trip. I am totally reminiscing as I write this, the whole trip was just spectacular. Including the flight over, I flew with Lufthansa and that was an awesome experience. I need to go back!
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