Angouleme

Trip Start May 04, 2006
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Trip End May 22, 2006


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Wednesday, May 10, 2006

In the south west of France, at the top of a hill overlooking the Charente River lies the city of Angoulme, the comic book capital of THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD. No joke. This is where Tin Tin began. In the center of town stands a huge head of Herge, its creator, and the comic book festival that takes place there every spring draws comic connesiurs the world over. Other than that, Angouleme is your typical gorgeous little French city.

Most of my time here was spent sitting in on Kathryn's classes. She teaches English to several different age groups ranging from 5 to 12 years old. French kids are so frenchin cute!!!!!!! And they love Americans, especially Californians, especially from Hollywood. So Kathryn decided to add me to the schedule of most of her classes. I'd stand up, and all the kids could ask me anything they wanted to, as long as they could ask it in English Angouleme
Angouleme
 . Of course, this didn't work out perfectly because they could only ask three things - Ow Are OU? Ow old are ou? and What izzz zee Weazzer like? So Kathryn started translating and I got to get into my whole family history at certain points, little Diane Sawyers they all are. One girl was fascinated by my parents divorce, and one class got so excited about me being a writer that the entire class wanted my autograph- screaming children vying for my signature, never have I felt cooler.

The other really cool thing about Angouleme was meeting all of Kathyn and Scott's new buddies. One seriously great group of people. And good thing too, cuz they all live in very close quarters, dorm room style. Most nights were spent drinking wine, everyone crammed into one persons tiny little room laughing and telling stories in "Franglais".
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