Novotel Grenoble Centre

... The airport was a different story and I was stung with a 20 squid bill for forgetting to check in online prior to arriving the airport. ****ers!!! To make matters worse, my baggage was 5kgs over limit and some angels appeared to help share to payload in 'carry on'. I was just hoping they were on the same flight. Later I found out they were the rest of the 'Snow Sluts' whom I hadn't met at this point. My adrenalin levels were pretty much peaking so I wasn't concerned ...

... on going to Paris, but if Kristina and Mary come up with a better idea, we just may do that instead. I will be home Saturday the 18th for sure, because that night I will be going to Lyon to see Banane Metalik. So much psychobilly, I think my head may explode. Updates and pictures after I return.

... Lorient. De match begon om 19u. Aangezien het hier nu al dagen heel mooi weer is (22graden..) besloten we om binnendoor te rijden (niet langs de autosnelweg dus) om rustig van het weer en de omgeving te kunnen genieten. We hebben hier ook een voetbal gekocht, dus konden we onderweg stoppen om even wat samba te verkopen. Grenoble is een zeer drukke stad en een belangrijke stad voor de sneeuwliefhebber. De Fransen die naar Italie willen gaan skieen/snowboarden, passeren langs hier ...

Today, I have been on this planet 22 years. I cannot believe that this past year has flown by so fast. This is particularly strange after having Megan here last week. We met three weeks into freshman year, so we have been friends almost my whole college career. It was so bizarre to find ourselves discussing our upcoming graduation and our post-degree plans. In two months I will no longer be an undergraduate but the holder of Bachelor's of Arts....WTF.

... truly enjoyed spending the evening chatting with her. My cousin Marie came this morning to join us for breakfast and we then got in the car to go to Autrans to meet up with three friends of hers. All four of them are very much into cross country skiing, whereas I'm the alpine skiing girl. When Marie had asked me if I would like to do a full day of cross country skiing a few months before, I was very excited about ...

... and of course each other. Then, sometime in mid-April our other American professor Maria will be joining us, hooray! Maria is the woman I have been learning French from for the past two and half years. She is also a Grenoble native so I am excited to see France in a new light with her. *All pictures taken by Julia Evans

... about missing my trains to go find something real to eat so the last time I had eaten was 11:30 am yesterday. My roommate Kat and I walked down to a sandwich stand and I bought a panini. Dear Lord, I will never eat a panini in America ever again. It was unbelievably delicious. After settling in Victor returned and we did a walk around Grenoble. After an hour or so he left us to our own devices for the rest of the day. Most of our group was ...

... bois - Chacha J'AI FROID C'EST L'HIVER AU SECOUR", en passant par "Papier A3 en quantité pour tracts du 102 - Le 102", ou "Cartes d'identités étudiantes pour pouvoir voter en AG mercredi - Les grévistes non-étudiants". Sur "Gratuit" : "Ordis pas trop nul, trouvé - Hugo", "Endroit pour réunions tous les soirs de semaine - Le 102", "Pleins de marqueurs, peinture et tissus pour affiches - Tropaline", etc... Et agenda, évidemment, les manifs, mais aussi les soirées projections, les ...

ah what a beautiful day! sinoc je pisala nina; danas maja. maze nas i paze i hrane i napijaju francuskim delicijama. proveli smo prekrasan dan u setnji na vidikovac; grad je u potpunosti okruzen Alpama, zrak cist i ugodan, vrijeme suncano i toplo. mozda smo u raju, ah ah ah. poslije smo bili po gradu koji je prepun malih slatkih ...

It seems summer has come to Grenoble, it's been a very nice hot day today which pleased me up until I realised I was doing a fairly important run today. So I did the manly thing and put it off right up until I really couldn't avoid it anymore and headed up the Bastille again. So The Bastille is a (very) mini mountain that has some nice (shaded) paths that criss cross up it, if you avoid all the steps it takes about 4km to get to the 500M summit, (you start at 200M) so it's fairly ...