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  1. Get your toothbrush and toothpaste.

  2. Apply toothpaste to toothbrush.

  3. Begin vigorously applying toothbrush to teeth

  4. Go to the bathroom with your water bottle, walking quietly so as to not hit the most noisy floorboards

  5. Urinate if necessary

  6. Do not flush the toilet, but instead, spit the toothpaste out, and rinse your mouth with water from the bottle. Do not put your mouth near the sink.

  7. Rinse the spittle and paste down the drain (with faucet)

  8. Drink the last of the water

  9. Push the toilet button(the US has levers, the UK and stu's house has chains, France has buttons. I hate to see what the japanese use.)

  10. Exit the bathroom, avoiding the loud floorboards

  11. Listen to the toilet flush from your room and try not to imagine the water from the bowl travelling up to the sink and possibly gurgling out.


what else can I teach you. Hmm. Oh I know!

How to eat dinner (in France)

  1. "On mange!"

  2. Seat yourself awkwardly at the dinner table because no one else is there yet

  3. After everyone else is there, allow Manon to fill your glass of water, or if you can do it yourself, fill it yourself and maybe someone else's

  4. Take some of the cantaloup, boiled eggs, corn, cucumbers, cranberry sauce, cheese things, tomatoes, and yellow mustard stuff.

  5. Eat these

  6. Listen closely for french conversation you can engage in, start, or need to reply to

  7. Watch the bowls those were in be replaced by the main dish, something like kebabs, pizza, lentil soup, egg rolls, salmon, chicken, or steaks

  8. Eat these

  9. Listen closely for french conversation you can engage in, start, or need to reply to

  10. Refill or have your water refilled.

  11. See these dishes disappear also to be replaced by cheese (three kinds) and some type of dessert to be chosen from fruit (strawberry and kiwi), yogurt (apricot, pineapple, pear), cakes and pies (rasperry, cherry, peach), delicious ice cream custard concoctions (delicious), and the like.

  12. Eat these

  13. When finished, take your plate to the dishwasher and listen closely for any instructions given in french as to the fullness of the dishwasher or anything else.


  14. Today the kids talked about self harm and cutting. I gathered this from the words 'blood' (sein), 'more' (plus), the gestures at arms (across the road), and the red faded scars on two siblings' arms.

    I got really uncomfortable. Like you must be right now.

    I keep wanting to ask Tristan (the brother) "pourquoi es tu triste?" because it's a pun, but also because he's so beautiful in a moody black haired (except I have a feeling he was born with his) emo kid kind of way. I don't know why, but I always want to make friends with that type.
    (stu is emoer than you'd think, really!)

    oh yeah, stu, manon's copain Nicolas has a complexion just like Ron's. kinda medium shaggy brown hair (well before ron dyed his blonde xD), pale skin and blue eyes. Kinda like my mom too! I didn't see any long scars across his arms, but there were a couple of round marks at the elbow I couldn't place but they made me very uncomfortable.

    I should ask jeff later if he was following that conversation. or was he there @_@ I don't remember!
    (jeff is the other hostee living here right now. We're in the same class and he and a bunch of others are from penn state)

    Oh yeah, I got the most useless coin in the world the other day: the €0,02 coin. Five of them. Everything in france is priced at multiples of fives, and I dont' even know why they bother. I guess maybe they have something in germany or somewhere that's €6,32 (does germany use euros?), but not in france. HOLY CRAP I HAVE FIVE OF THESE USELESS PIECES OF METAL.
    Good advice would be 'spend them!' but I want to do this pokemon style and catch them all, except I dont' need FIVE FREAKING COINS. And they're worthless unless in a set!

    if anyone would like a postcard from the US with a two centime coin in it, get back to me.

    I used my bus pass for the first time today. I was so happy. I was not quite so happy when I pushed the 'I want to get off button' and the 'stop requested' light did not blink on. Nor did it blink on when I pushed another 'I wanna get off button'. Luckily, someone *did* wish to get off at the stop after that, and that's how I started my trip to the Citadelle!


    that's besançon behind me! well, part of it. The "buckle". that strand of trees you see through it? That's the Doubs.

    I took this just for you, Brittany Ford. this crab was the meanest and oldest and biggest of the bunch as far as I could tell. There was a large wall filled with these holes for teh suckers.

    This is the Doubs as it turns into trees. It's not a bad river, really.

    I really just took this so you could see my reflection. Honest.

    I tried to take some artsy shots too.

    we're all badasses.
    Me, Jennifer (non irish), ashley, ben (sorry jojo!), johnathan, and jacquelin (it's her birthday tomorrow!).
    I'm not convinced this picture could have turned out any better when you consider I was holding the camera out into thin air.

    I have never seen such a badass fish in my life. He was like four foot long at least.

    This picture makes me think of a game like breakout on my 1001 best windows games cd. It had some annoying guy's face and voice on a shareware splash screen, but the game was so pretty I still played it.

    I took a walk around the block yesterday and took some pictures maybe I'll post them tomorrow. I gotta get to bed for class in the morning!

    bonne nuit~

Date: 2008-06-01 10:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spiffing-cheese.livejournal.com
Nobody I know has a chain for a flush!

Date: 2008-06-01 10:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] psychoticville.livejournal.com
What she said. UK is a lever country.

Date: 2008-06-01 11:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kujatrance.livejournal.com
You get the occasional old ones that still have chains. And I still call it a chain (e.g. "flush the chain"), but most definitely a lever country these days.

Date: 2008-06-02 01:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spiffing-cheese.livejournal.com
I always say "flush the chain" as well, despite the fact that I have never even seen a toilet with a chain before. :(

Date: 2008-06-02 07:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jume.livejournal.com
well, I saw a lot of chains! maybe it's because I only went to really old buildings.

Date: 2008-06-01 11:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shoeshine-boy.livejournal.com
Why does toilet water come out of the sink? I don't think that's supposed to happen.

Date: 2008-06-02 07:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jume.livejournal.com
it's on the first floor (second floor), and they have this little machine that pushes water up to the first floor (Second floor), I think. It's really loud and takes forever to flush, and I don't know, but that's what it does sometimes.

Date: 2008-06-02 01:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bigdee.livejournal.com
Sounds like you're having a great time - dodgy plumbing aside. Definitely eating well, at least :3

Date: 2008-06-02 07:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jume.livejournal.com
you say that, but then I dreamed that I had lost 20 pounds this morning, and probably with good reason.

Date: 2008-06-02 09:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carabbit.livejournal.com
Japan uses different stuff depending on the type of toilet: most common are levers, buttons, and these funny hand sensors where you stick your hand in front of it for a second or two to activate! I just got back from japan. Hope you are having fun over there! :DDD

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