Hey, so I'm trying to be good and keep up with this on a regular basis.
UNLIKE SOME PEOPLE (Kathrine O'Sullivan...)
Anyway, I haven't had anything really interesting happen to me in the past week as I have been crazy sick. I had to miss school on Monday cause I was feeling so crummy, then I tried to go to school on Tuesday, which i thought, Woo! Success!
I was wrong.
Tuesday night comes around and I can't stop coughing, feeling horrible, and I keep waking up in the middle of the night coughing, and then couldn't get back to sleep. Horrible.
So I don't go to school on Wednesday, and call SLC. They get my a doctor's appointment and I go to my first doctor in France.
And boy was it easy! I got there and the doctor talked to me a little, (in English and French) and checked my breathing, asked how long it had been going on...etc.
And then 15 minutes later I was out the door with 3 prescription forms, a no going to school note and a good attitude!
And the total cost of that doctors visit, with no health insurance.....31 euros!
Amazing. Go to pharmacy, get prescriptions go home...done!
So that was Tuesday, and it is currently Saturday and I still haven't left my room. I have been sleeping all the time, taking my meds and willing myself better.
I hope it worked, because I have decided today it the day I'm not sick anymore!
So I took a shower this morning, I'm going to get falafel for lunch, I'm going to clean my room, do some homework and be healthy!!!
Hope all y'all are good too.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
Hey Y'all
So trying to keep this up more often now.
Not much news, I am currently sick. I have no voice which makes phone conversations hilarious. Especially when i have to speak french.
But Kevin Brouder, a friend of mine from SLC, came to visit Megg and me this last weekend and we had SUCH a great time!!! It was amazing.
We got to go to this really fun party in this amazing apartment. The view was incredible. Those are some pictures from right near by the apartment, and in the clock tower. Also some art that I've seen in a couple museums.
The Monet's from the secret exhibit and a David of the "Tennis court."
Well, just wanted to throw some photos at ya, hope y'all are doing well.
Not much news, I am currently sick. I have no voice which makes phone conversations hilarious. Especially when i have to speak french.
But Kevin Brouder, a friend of mine from SLC, came to visit Megg and me this last weekend and we had SUCH a great time!!! It was amazing.
The Monet's from the secret exhibit and a David of the "Tennis court."
Well, just wanted to throw some photos at ya, hope y'all are doing well.
Monday, November 8, 2010
Ack
I am soooo bad at updating this. Well, a month has about passed since I last updated. I have a lot of homework I actually need to do tonight, so I'm gonna keep this short and sweet.
Last month was awesome! Halloween was a main highlight.
I was Gaga on Friday night and a Zombie on Saturday. But didn't end up going out on Sunday - actual halloween.
You can figure which one is which.
Anywhos. I was also supposed to go to the Lady Gaga concert in Paris, BUT it got postponed due to the stupid strikes. So hopefully i'll get to see her when she comes back in Dec.
Other than that I've just been going to Lecoq and Sarah Lawrence pretty much all the time.
Lecoq is continuing to be great, we've been working on pulling and pushing things that aren't there, climbing "walls", we've started with the neutral mask, which is super fun.
While in mask we've woken up in a forest, fog and the ocean. Which was cool. We've travel through the forest up over mountains and escaped from prison. It's been pretty eventful.
Our autocours this week is in mask for the first time, and the theme is leaving a place with a reason forever, then traveling somewhere and showing the journey.
So my group is doing we're leaving somewhere due to a drought which has depleted out food source, and we're traveling to find water/a new place to live. We walk accross a barren wasteland for a bit, then begin to climb a mountain, and find a cave. Hang out in there for a while, then continue up the mountain, until we go down the mountain, and then I think we'll see something and go for it.
Just been pretty busy with school and stuffs. OH! I got to see the Monet exhibit at the Palais in Paris, I didn't know we weren't supposed to take photos so i took a couple before someone told me I couldnt. Now, I would post them here to show all y'all, but unfortunately my internet has decided it doesn't want to upload these photos. Even though the other ones where find.
Also - chipped my tooth. (again, would show you pics, but internet/comp decided no) Dont know how I did it, and it really doesn't bother me, it's just a tiny bit off the bottom of my front right tooth. Oh well.
Thats about all thats new with me. Again, if you feel so inclined, send me letters and stuff, I love getting that stuff.
Chloe Moser
Sarah Lawrence College
Reid Hall
4 Rue de Chevreuse
Paris, France 75006
or email me your addresses and I'll mail you post cards. Email is cmoser@gm.slc.edu
Love ya tons!
Last month was awesome! Halloween was a main highlight.
I was Gaga on Friday night and a Zombie on Saturday. But didn't end up going out on Sunday - actual halloween.
Anywhos. I was also supposed to go to the Lady Gaga concert in Paris, BUT it got postponed due to the stupid strikes. So hopefully i'll get to see her when she comes back in Dec.
Other than that I've just been going to Lecoq and Sarah Lawrence pretty much all the time.
Lecoq is continuing to be great, we've been working on pulling and pushing things that aren't there, climbing "walls", we've started with the neutral mask, which is super fun.
While in mask we've woken up in a forest, fog and the ocean. Which was cool. We've travel through the forest up over mountains and escaped from prison. It's been pretty eventful.
Our autocours this week is in mask for the first time, and the theme is leaving a place with a reason forever, then traveling somewhere and showing the journey.
So my group is doing we're leaving somewhere due to a drought which has depleted out food source, and we're traveling to find water/a new place to live. We walk accross a barren wasteland for a bit, then begin to climb a mountain, and find a cave. Hang out in there for a while, then continue up the mountain, until we go down the mountain, and then I think we'll see something and go for it.
Just been pretty busy with school and stuffs. OH! I got to see the Monet exhibit at the Palais in Paris, I didn't know we weren't supposed to take photos so i took a couple before someone told me I couldnt. Now, I would post them here to show all y'all, but unfortunately my internet has decided it doesn't want to upload these photos. Even though the other ones where find.
Also - chipped my tooth. (again, would show you pics, but internet/comp decided no) Dont know how I did it, and it really doesn't bother me, it's just a tiny bit off the bottom of my front right tooth. Oh well.
Thats about all thats new with me. Again, if you feel so inclined, send me letters and stuff, I love getting that stuff.
Chloe Moser
Sarah Lawrence College
Reid Hall
4 Rue de Chevreuse
Paris, France 75006
or email me your addresses and I'll mail you post cards. Email is cmoser@gm.slc.edu
Love ya tons!
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Lecoq
So, Lecoq started last week!
It's so amazing, and so much fun, I literally can't believe it. I know I was so nervous when I was still in the process of coming here, and I remember having doubts about the school, but it was all just nerves and I know that this is where I belong.
The teachers really aren't as intimidating as they were made out to be. My teachers are Paola one of the improv teachers, who is really funny. When we do a scene for her she'll tell us that it's a catastrophe, or that we were horrible, but always in the cutest way. She'll come up and rub your back, or hold you hand, but be very direct. She's great. She's so motherly, but knows exactly what she wants, and will stop you in the middle when it's not happening.
Then I have Jason, another improv teacher, but he has also done some movement, but I'm not sure if he was filling in, or something along those lines. Jason is the teacher who speaks the most English in class. When people look like they don't understand he'll always just repeat it in English.
Christophe is the acrobatics teacher, and he is so cool. He's like 60, or older, and he is the acrobatics teacher! We worked on rolling and tumbling the first class, and in the second we did handstands! I'd never done a handstand before, until last Friday! It was so amazing.
Francois is the James Bond of teachers. He just IS James Bond...of mime. Francois is Jacques Lecoq's son. Jacques is dead, but his wife, Fay, is still running the administrative part of the school, his daughter Pascale is starting to take over her mom's job, and Francois his son is a teacher. It's like a family theater school.
Anyway, Francois teaches..well, it's not really mime, but he will lay out a space, and we have to interact in it, but it's always very specific. Like, we did a pool scene, and we had the door to get in, the receptionist, a big window to see in the pool, stairs to go up to the changing rooms, stairs back down to the pool, the pool, diving board...etc. So he'd put like 5 or 6 of us into this "pool" and we'd have to perform a scene while respecting everything he previously established.
THEN we have a class called Autocours. Autocours is a class with no teacher, it's basically our time to rehearse for 1.5 hours everyday, to perform something on Friday. At the beginning of the week we are giving a theme, and then we have the week to get something together. We have to pick our own groups, of 6 or so, and just do it. Last week was "An event in a place." So pretty vague, but all the scenes have to be silent, and it has to be a justified silence. It's not that we CAN'T talk, but find placed and reasons where people just don't talk. But we still have to interact with each other without pantomime.
So, that was my first week at Lecoq, and I am just so happy. I love classes, and even though I have to leave my house at 8am everyday in order to get to class, it really hasn't been that bad. My SLC classes are going pretty well so far too. We had out first visit for Art History. We went to the atalier of Eugene Delacroix. Which was his house and his work space. I wanted to take pictures but we weren't allowed to. We could barely whisper!
So here are some more photos for ya.
It's so amazing, and so much fun, I literally can't believe it. I know I was so nervous when I was still in the process of coming here, and I remember having doubts about the school, but it was all just nerves and I know that this is where I belong.
The teachers really aren't as intimidating as they were made out to be. My teachers are Paola one of the improv teachers, who is really funny. When we do a scene for her she'll tell us that it's a catastrophe, or that we were horrible, but always in the cutest way. She'll come up and rub your back, or hold you hand, but be very direct. She's great. She's so motherly, but knows exactly what she wants, and will stop you in the middle when it's not happening.
Then I have Jason, another improv teacher, but he has also done some movement, but I'm not sure if he was filling in, or something along those lines. Jason is the teacher who speaks the most English in class. When people look like they don't understand he'll always just repeat it in English.
Christophe is the acrobatics teacher, and he is so cool. He's like 60, or older, and he is the acrobatics teacher! We worked on rolling and tumbling the first class, and in the second we did handstands! I'd never done a handstand before, until last Friday! It was so amazing.
Francois is the James Bond of teachers. He just IS James Bond...of mime. Francois is Jacques Lecoq's son. Jacques is dead, but his wife, Fay, is still running the administrative part of the school, his daughter Pascale is starting to take over her mom's job, and Francois his son is a teacher. It's like a family theater school.
Anyway, Francois teaches..well, it's not really mime, but he will lay out a space, and we have to interact in it, but it's always very specific. Like, we did a pool scene, and we had the door to get in, the receptionist, a big window to see in the pool, stairs to go up to the changing rooms, stairs back down to the pool, the pool, diving board...etc. So he'd put like 5 or 6 of us into this "pool" and we'd have to perform a scene while respecting everything he previously established.
THEN we have a class called Autocours. Autocours is a class with no teacher, it's basically our time to rehearse for 1.5 hours everyday, to perform something on Friday. At the beginning of the week we are giving a theme, and then we have the week to get something together. We have to pick our own groups, of 6 or so, and just do it. Last week was "An event in a place." So pretty vague, but all the scenes have to be silent, and it has to be a justified silence. It's not that we CAN'T talk, but find placed and reasons where people just don't talk. But we still have to interact with each other without pantomime.
So, that was my first week at Lecoq, and I am just so happy. I love classes, and even though I have to leave my house at 8am everyday in order to get to class, it really hasn't been that bad. My SLC classes are going pretty well so far too. We had out first visit for Art History. We went to the atalier of Eugene Delacroix. Which was his house and his work space. I wanted to take pictures but we weren't allowed to. We could barely whisper!
So here are some more photos for ya.
This is the lake underneath the Paris Opera house. Like in Phantom of the Opera? I was there!!
More beautiful in the Paris Opera house
This is also in the Opera, and it was made by the same person who made the Hall of Mirrors in Verseilles!
This is from Delacroix's Atalier, we weren't supposed to take photos, but i snuck this one in...
This is from the "Ecole de Beaux Arts" this is like the best art school in Paris.
This is one of Delacroix's paintings, in the Church of St. Sulpice
And here is ME! I just got my hair cut, so thought you guys would want to see.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
October
Here is my first post in October. Woo.
I am currently in Lyon, with some new friends, having a grand old time. Yesterday was amazing, we got into Lyon at around 1pm, and walked back to their house to drop off our stuff, we then walked around Lyon, and took this epic walking adventure for like 3 hours. We walked around this really cool area called "Old Lyon" and all the streets were really cute and windy. Then we walked up probably, one million stairs, and were in this suburby neighborhoody area, and we were just amazing that people just live life here. It was so cool.
We then met back up with the friends who live her, bought groceries, which I am still amazed at how cheap some things can be here, such as food from the grocery store. I can buy a weeks worth of groceries for like 9 euro. Amazing.
Anyway, then we went back and made the cutest little dinner with us two, megg's two friends, one of which who lives where we are staying, her roommate and her two friends. It was the most adorable, we were all sitting in the bedroom around a couch and little stools as we were munching and drinking red wine, it was amazing.
After that we went out to this really cool bar that was enormous, and it was packed, but no one was dancing, so of course we changed that. They played some really amazing music and it was just fun to dance and have a great time with a big group of friends.
Today we went to the "Puce" which is the flea market. It was great! I got an awesome pair of shoes, and a present for my mom. I am officially on my game for Christmas. Now were are relaxing at the house, doing homework, listening to music and watching the trains go past, as there are a bunch of train tracks right outside the window.
Just wanted to give y'all a little update!
Here are also some pictures from my trip to the south. they are in Aix-en-Provence, Marseilles and Avignon.
I am currently in Lyon, with some new friends, having a grand old time. Yesterday was amazing, we got into Lyon at around 1pm, and walked back to their house to drop off our stuff, we then walked around Lyon, and took this epic walking adventure for like 3 hours. We walked around this really cool area called "Old Lyon" and all the streets were really cute and windy. Then we walked up probably, one million stairs, and were in this suburby neighborhoody area, and we were just amazing that people just live life here. It was so cool.
We then met back up with the friends who live her, bought groceries, which I am still amazed at how cheap some things can be here, such as food from the grocery store. I can buy a weeks worth of groceries for like 9 euro. Amazing.
Anyway, then we went back and made the cutest little dinner with us two, megg's two friends, one of which who lives where we are staying, her roommate and her two friends. It was the most adorable, we were all sitting in the bedroom around a couch and little stools as we were munching and drinking red wine, it was amazing.
After that we went out to this really cool bar that was enormous, and it was packed, but no one was dancing, so of course we changed that. They played some really amazing music and it was just fun to dance and have a great time with a big group of friends.
Today we went to the "Puce" which is the flea market. It was great! I got an awesome pair of shoes, and a present for my mom. I am officially on my game for Christmas. Now were are relaxing at the house, doing homework, listening to music and watching the trains go past, as there are a bunch of train tracks right outside the window.
Just wanted to give y'all a little update!
Here are also some pictures from my trip to the south. they are in Aix-en-Provence, Marseilles and Avignon.
Aix
Aix
Aix
Aix (with some of the class)
Marseilles at the beach
Marseilles
Marseilles
Marseilles
Avignon (at the palace of the Pope)
Avignon
Monday, September 27, 2010
Real Life
So I feel like my real life is almost starting. I've been in orientation mode for quite a while now, but the official SLC schoolings started this week, and so my days and schedules have been changing. Lecoq still hasn't started yet, so I only need to go to SLC (reid hall) 3 times this week, which is pretty dope.
On the other hand, I was planning on visiting a certain Zombie bff in Florence, but SOMEONE had to go on a stupid trip this weekend. So, no I have a three day weekend, we'll see what crazy things I get into!
Speaking of crazy, I saw the MOST amazing feat of humanity on Saturday.
It's called: Techno Parade.
Which is exactly what it was. There were probaby 10 - 12 trucks filled to the top with speakers, and DJ's on top, of the DJing live while mass crowds followed the trucks around down the road. So much walking and dancing and jostling, it was crazy. There were all these high school age kids dancing on top of the bus stops, they looked as if they were going to break, but they stayed pretty solid while we were watching.
See, we (Megg and I) wound up at this parade because the bus we were on to go to the Ballet with our school had to stop because of the massive parade taking up super main roads (from Deferent Rochereau to the Bastille, that's HALF of paris btw. From the south end to on the other side of the seine.) So we got out, get confused, we didn't really know where we were, and just started walking to try and get out of the mass peoples, but it was too much. All these roads were closed down, and there were all these cops in FULL swat gear, it was terrifying, so we just gave up and enjoyed the Parade.
It was so much fun. People were selling beer from shopping carts as they followed the trucks, everyone was drunk and dancing, hanging from street signs, traffic lights, on top of bus stops, garbage cans, cars, anything to get noticed.
There was this super bad ass DJ who wore a shiny metallic body suit, she had beautiful long blond hair, and she played her violin LIVE as it was plugged into her turn tables, and mixed it into her crazy techno music. It was incredible.
Besides that, everything is still pretty peachy. Provence was super beautiful, we stayed in Aix-en-Provence, which is the capital of Provence (which is in the south of France). We took day trips to Marseilles, Avignon and St. Remy (which is where Vincent van Gogh lived). We got to go into his house, look out his window..etc, pretty cool. I got post cards. I will be sending some out, but I would love to write all of my blog friends and fans. (lol. fans)
So email me your addresses, unless you're at SLC (then duh). So I'm talking to you everyone else.
Email address is: cmoser@gm.slc.edu
But if you'd like to write me a beautiful letter, i'd love to read it! You can write to me at...
Chloe Moser
Sarah Lawrence College
4, rue de Chevreuse
Paris, France 75006
Alright, miss ya'll tons!
On the other hand, I was planning on visiting a certain Zombie bff in Florence, but SOMEONE had to go on a stupid trip this weekend. So, no I have a three day weekend, we'll see what crazy things I get into!
Speaking of crazy, I saw the MOST amazing feat of humanity on Saturday.
It's called: Techno Parade.
Which is exactly what it was. There were probaby 10 - 12 trucks filled to the top with speakers, and DJ's on top, of the DJing live while mass crowds followed the trucks around down the road. So much walking and dancing and jostling, it was crazy. There were all these high school age kids dancing on top of the bus stops, they looked as if they were going to break, but they stayed pretty solid while we were watching.
See, we (Megg and I) wound up at this parade because the bus we were on to go to the Ballet with our school had to stop because of the massive parade taking up super main roads (from Deferent Rochereau to the Bastille, that's HALF of paris btw. From the south end to on the other side of the seine.) So we got out, get confused, we didn't really know where we were, and just started walking to try and get out of the mass peoples, but it was too much. All these roads were closed down, and there were all these cops in FULL swat gear, it was terrifying, so we just gave up and enjoyed the Parade.
It was so much fun. People were selling beer from shopping carts as they followed the trucks, everyone was drunk and dancing, hanging from street signs, traffic lights, on top of bus stops, garbage cans, cars, anything to get noticed.
There was this super bad ass DJ who wore a shiny metallic body suit, she had beautiful long blond hair, and she played her violin LIVE as it was plugged into her turn tables, and mixed it into her crazy techno music. It was incredible.
Besides that, everything is still pretty peachy. Provence was super beautiful, we stayed in Aix-en-Provence, which is the capital of Provence (which is in the south of France). We took day trips to Marseilles, Avignon and St. Remy (which is where Vincent van Gogh lived). We got to go into his house, look out his window..etc, pretty cool. I got post cards. I will be sending some out, but I would love to write all of my blog friends and fans. (lol. fans)
So email me your addresses, unless you're at SLC (then duh). So I'm talking to you everyone else.
Email address is: cmoser@gm.slc.edu
But if you'd like to write me a beautiful letter, i'd love to read it! You can write to me at...
Chloe Moser
Sarah Lawrence College
4, rue de Chevreuse
Paris, France 75006
Alright, miss ya'll tons!
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Paris - it has happened.
Hey blog family.
Sorry I’ve been so bad about updating and what not, I’ve just been pretty busy. France has been really really great. My mom and I got here, and went straight to Cité Universitaire, where I live, to drop off my stuff and then head over to my cousin’s house. They were so great, they made dinner, and we played with the kids, and I ate meat!!
Yes, while being here, I’ve decided to start eating meat again. If I’m going to be buy all my own food now, as I’m not on a meal plan, I don’t want to be stuck eating pasta and breads every day. So I have jumped right into the world of meat again, and man…it’s soooo delicious. I forgot how great salami and ham are. So most days I get a baguette on my way home, make a sandwich with meat, some kind of stinky delicious cheese, and an avocado, with pesto. Its kinda been my go to meal for the past two weeks. I then save the other half of the bread, and make another one for lunch the next day.
My school is also going really well. Orientation has started, and we’re there every day in these super loooong meetings, which are pretty boring, but then we also have French class, which is more fun. My teacher’s name is Dominique – which she asked us to call her; which is very strange, because normally you have to be super respectful to French professors, but she’s really nice. Everything is completely in French too, so I’m really getting used to hearing it and using it all the time.
I now have a cell phone AND a bank account here, which is really nice. It’s crazy, but the simplest things, like opening a bank account, are the most terrifying in a foreign language. But one of my teachers, Natalie, who is our “cultural expert”, went with us, and helped translate the terms into easier French – still with no English!!!
I have been hanging out with Ms. Megg Farrell (for those of you who aren’t SLC folks – she’s from there) and she has a bunch of French friends, who are really nice and fun to hang out with. We went to Versailles the other weekend, which turns out is FREE for all French students and students staying in France for a “long time” – their words not mine! So I just show them my passport with my Visa in it – and I get in. Super easy.
Versailles was beautiful, and we went with two of Megg’s roommates and another one of their friends. Turns out two of them are art history students going to school AT the Louvre. So as we walked through all the rooms, we got this amazing art history lesson, all in French! It was really fun, and I was surprised, but my comprehension is really improving. I understood so much of what everyone was saying.
But, my room is really nice, and it’s only two stops away from my school (SLC). I went to Ikea when my mom was here, and we got some really cool stuff, like poppy flower wall decals…
My Leqoc classes haven’t started yet, and they won’t until October 3rd, but until then I’m still just hanging around and doing orientation stuff. My SLC classes really start on the 27th, and until then we just have these endless meetings ... I’ve also decided what seminar class I’m going to take at SLC, which will be History of Art in the 19th century. I’m actually really excited! There is a time marked off for class every Friday for when we go to museums and actually go see the real art. It’s so cool, I figured that if I’m going to be living in Paris, I mind as well take it. The teacher also seems really nice; she gave us a lecture yesterday about art in Provence…
…Which we are going to tomorrow! We leave tomorrow morning, really early, and we take the train to Aix-en-Provence. We’ll be staying Friday night and Saturday night at a hotel there, and during the day traveling around the city, and also to Avignon and Marseilles. It will be fun, because it’s all paid for, except for like…the lunches of each day.
Anyway – I miss all of you SO much, and I hope that we can skype/talk soon. My skype officially works, my name is cmoser90, and I’m normally online in the evening-ish.
I’m really starting to feel like this is a place I can live. I feel like a real adult here. I have to budget my money, go grocery shopping, pay for me cell phone, go to school, take the metro all on my own in a foreign country…and I’m really loving it! I think I’d really like to stay as long as I can. It’s even starting to feel like home. I can like, take pride in living here. I mean with New York I felt that way after a while, but it was different; here I felt it almost instantly. I’m just so excited for the year to come.
See y’all on the flip side.
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