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Weekend is around the corner again, but with a different twist - Big Al and Niki are coming down from Holland!! Excellent.. We will see how the two little boys fit on our inflatable mattress, hehee..
Next month should actually be really busy, with a total of around 7 people visiting us.. I tried to take some of my school assignments a little bit earlier than just at the end of the semester (when my french would hopefully be better), and monday i did the math: MOST of my assignments are next month, when everybody is visiting. clever me. So this week i started studying. Iliana, if you read this, could you please tell me which of Foucault's texts is on Clausewitz? I have to write an 'original' paper on clausewitz.
For saturday i decided to invite people over. I would have liked to invite more, but we are already around twenty, and I don't know if even that is a good idea - who knows how these frenchies feel about noisy parties saturday night. I guess i'll know sunday.
Last sunday we were at Versailles, which is just unbelievably beautiful (the garden). It has this gigantic cross-shaped lake/canal-thing, surrounded by tall trees. Makes you think how many men it took to dig it, way back in the.. 1600's? A french girl told us that the last time it was drained was during the second world war, so god knows what there is in there. At least when i was sitting by the water a big fish scared the hell out of me. They had to drain it because it is positioned like a compass, and with the moonlight, it gave perfect directions for enemy airplanes to find paris.
And the same girl was nice enough to give us a tour of her hometown (still Versailles) and invite us over for dinner to her house (Axel and I). So we had a Dinner at a Real French Home. (there is a small competition here between Erasmus students on who gets to know the infamously hard-to-get-to-know parisians).
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Have a good weekend!!!
Niklas.