Thursday, February 02, 2006

Another last!

Well today was my official last day of school. I had finished my class schedule of 200 hours of French. Wow, that seems like a lot, that is until I got offered an internship-type job to pretty much study French for 300 hours and get paid for it. That's a total of 500 hours (for all you non-math majors) of French, wow I must be good. Well we'll see if we decide to stay or not, which we'll see if I take it or not. But back to today, it was kind of sad to have to leave something I kind of got used to doing. I actually got to know/meet a lot of people from all over the world: Brazil, China, Japan, England, Africa, Spain, Philippines and Russian countries. And all we had in common was French. But as sad as it maybe, at an ending there's always a begging, so why dwell on the past, when I can look towards the future.

Current Events : Well today in the U.S. is groundhogs day, and in France it's Crepe day! OUAI! Today's actually Chandler day which is "the presentation of Christ", and like any Religious day or holiday in France, it usually includes eating. Speaking of eating. Has any body heard about the French people getting fatter. Yeah, it's probably McDonald's fault, there's 2 1/2 in a town of 50,000 here.

In The News: Well if you haven't heard about it, the Muslims are mad. Well I live right-dab-slap in the middle of Muslim land, yes I am talking about France. But this story is on the News all the time, I'm just waiting for another riot or maybe a religious war, which comes first huh? Well it started out with a cartoon of the Muslims God Allah, and now a lot of the Muslim world is upset. On the news/radio either people are mad that there was this cartoon or they are saying "get over it, they apologized". Here's a link on the MSNBC.com page.