If you're also keeping up with me on Facebook, you've already seen some pictures on this theme. In French, "bien installe" is the term that's essentially equivalent to "getting settled." And that's how I'm finally feeling, 5 weeks after landing here.
Now that I have regular electricity in my apartment (yeah, a little short in my electric hotplate left me without for the first weekend...), and I know when and where to go to get groceries, I'm getting into a bit of a rountine to manage the homework and I have a pretty concrete idea of how long it takes to get places - oh, and I have INTERNET at home again, (oh the little things you take for granted), the structures within which life happens are up and solid. Which, fortunately, is allowing some more time to actually live life a bit more.
I've been enriching life first through an attempted ski weekend that was unfortunately much more about ice and concussions than powder and snow-bunny-ness. Last weekend held smoother adventures - an early morning watching my local boulanger bake bread in preparation for a project I'm working on for school, followed by a day of exploring in Lyon. This week has been completely taken over by Clermont-Ferrand's claim to fame in the arts world: The festival of short films, which is the second largest film festival after Cannes. I went to six different sequences and saw everything from a semi-horror flic about a a guy who goes crazy after losing his hand in a meat-packing accident to a beautifully joyful short about a man who was "clinically happy" - even without owning a second home on the beach or an expensive convertible. :-)
In between, I'm trying my best to keep up on emails, the primaries in the states, and preparations for the big trips that are coming up - including Italy with my parents next week!
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