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Vacation pics!!

Finally here are some pics from my France vacation - after my exam on Monday I was feeling pretty shitty on Tuesday and Wednesday - sick, sore throat, the works...

But now I'm better :)

So, here goes nothin'

We started out in Cologne and spent the first weekend in Vichy, where Carsten had spent 2 vacations, trying to learn French before he met me :)

I got to meet the family where he lived back then and we also visited the town, including its springs, where you could test different spring waters...









Here's the street where we stayed... Needless to say, your driving skills here have to be really good, since many streets are pretty narrow.



We then drove down to Millau, and saw the bridge that has been constructed.


After Millau, we headed towards Provence, and the route was beautiful. We took a little road through the Gorges du Tarn, the Tarn being a river. We had lunch in this awesome medieval village, and everywhere there were flowers in the trees - spring starts earlier in France...



and here is the Tarn:


We then drove on to the village of Uzès, where we spent a wonderful evening in a small Creperie, eating amazing galettes and drinking rosé wine.

The next days, we drove to visit the Pont du Gard, which was built by the Romans and was part of the roman Aqueduct:




By the vegetation, you can tell that we were getting closer and closer to the Mediterranean area: here's a cypress tree.




After the Pont du Gard, we headed down south to the Camargue region, and were rewarded with this beautiful sunset on the beach:




We had finally arrived in Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, which is an amazing village on the Mediterranean sea. We had once again a scrumptious evening meal in a restaurant, great wine and all in all a very romantic evening.

During the day, it was pretty hot in the sun, I even got sunburn! But the Mistral was blowing very strong, so it felt around 10 degrees...



We wanted to go horse-riding, but it was too cold, so we opted for a Camargue-safari instead...



where we saw typical Camargue landscapes, horses, flamingos and bulls.












Oh yeah, and we also saw this really cute stork!




NO, I'm NOT pregnant! ;)

Keep tuned for hte other half of our vacation...

Love it!

Just because

This is what I am listening to and doing my victory dance to:

1,3

Veni, vidi, vici

The exam was pretty hard, but apparently I made a good impression and managed to answer the questions in a satisfying way: I got a 1,3 (A for the north americans)!!

I am so proud of myself! (And SOOO grateful for the help I received in preparing)

Showdown in 90 minutes

In 90 minutes, I will enter the professor's office. He will be sitting there, with one other examiner, whom I don't know.

He'll ask me some questions and we'll discuss semantics and morphology.

20 minutes later, I'll get my mark. And be so relieved...

Exhausted

I'm exhausted. My brain is on overdrive. I've spent most of the day and evening studying, and my brain refuses to do anything more.

Thank god my friend Julius came over this morning to help me prepare for the exam, it really clarified it all up, I don't know what I would have done without him! :)

Thanks Julius!

And the rest of you, you better think of me tomorrow at 3:35 pm (9:35 am in Montreal and I guess somewhere around 6:35 am in L.A./ Vancouver)... please?

I'll let you know tomorrow when I get home ;)

Exam on Monday

I've been back but studying hard for an important exam on Monday!

Wish me luck!

ps. the vacation was awesome!

Vacation!

I'll be spending the next 10 days in Provence with my boyfriend! After these last 4 weeks of internship, working and writing papers for uni, I really need it!

I can already smell the lavender fields...

My new toy!!

I've discovered something new that I reaaaaaaaaaally love! It's like your own little portable internet forum / comment section - without the censorship of the website you're commenting on. You just have to install it, and you can comment on any given website - news articles, company websites, you name it! Here it is, so check it out and have fun "frosping"!

Freedom of Speech

aaaaaaaaah

I stayed home today, slept a lot and am already feeling a bit better. I've had a lot of stress lately, I've been working in school for the past three weeks. This internship is a part of my studies, and it's absolutely wonderful and absolutely exhausting...

Sometimes my body shuts down when I get stressed out... Good to know!

Blehhhh

I feel like my body is breaking down. The whole week I've been feeling week, having to lie down, hot flashes, blurry vision.

This morning I woke up with swollen lymph nodes and a sore throat...

I'm sick.

Wednesday evening

After a looong day of hard work and coming home somewhat late, there's nothing more relaxing than Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy - aaaaaaaaaaah, wonderful. There's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home...

Love it!

Deepest blue - deepest blue

Even more Silverchair