5/25/2010 I woke up really early today sometime between 05:00 and 05:30 without doing so purposely. The ironic part about this is that when you account for the time difference between France and Ohio then I woke up at about the same time of K-Mag’s accident exactly five years ago. It doesn’t seem possible that [...]
Archive for May, 2010
25 May
Day Thirteen: Nothing Good Ever Happens on this Day
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25 May
Day Twelve: Traveling
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05:00 came pretty early and we made the train to the airport and then two planes back to Nantes plus a bus and tram back home. The afternoon was spent in McDonald’s on the internet getting caught back up. For dinner we were just going to get some crepes and decided to ask Maria and [...]
25 May
Day Eleven: Winter 2035 – Where I’ll Be
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After a restful sleep after being forced to watch Pretty Women in French we got our day started very early with breakfast and a beautiful sunrise up in the Alps. I had a great conversation with a guy from Georgia and his wife on the inability of Europe to pay for their early retirement and [...]
25 May
Day Ten: Trains Galore!
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Saturday mornings very early shower in the hostel had to have ranked in my top five worst showers ever, but we were still able to make it to the train station and found out only four of us would be continuing on to Interlaken. I think a few of the others missed out on a [...]
24 May
Day Nine: Eurotrip! “You’re in France…that’s Switzerland” – in the airport
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5/21/2010 This weekend marked the first weekend available to travel freely around Europe! It became an amazingly beautiful weekend getaway in the Swiss Alps. Many things didn’t go as planned, but everything turned out for the best. After a quick two hour class in the morning in which each group shared their marketing product idea [...]
24 May
Nantes Castle
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5/20/2010 Today was my first day waking up a wee bit too late, but we managed to have a very quick breakfast and made it to school in plenty of time. Dr. Sullivan gave a passionate lecture on the European Monetary Union. He started with some historical information back to the gold standard and how [...]
24 May
Day Seven: Cointreau
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5/19/2010 Today’s big adventure was a class trip to Angers, France (1 hour via bus) to the one and only Cointreau (quen-tro) distillery and bottling factory. Cointreau is a type of triple sec distilled from orange peels that is used in cocktails. In fact, the cocktails in Sex and the City use Cointreau. I had [...]
19 May
Host Family and First Day
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5/18/2010: Part Two On Sunday it was an anxious bus ride from Versailles to Nantes to meet our host family at the train station. I had only heard a little about them before arriving. I was wondering about how to greet our host mom. Boujour? Hello? Shake hands? Hug? Or the American horror of the [...]
19 May
The First Impression of a New Culture
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5/18/2010: Part One Well it has been quite some time since I have last posted on this blog. I created this for my English 112 class my second semester of freshman year. I decided before leaving for Europe not to post my journey. However, as I have been going about my travels, I have realized [...]
