Hey you people !

How are you doing?
Here, in France, things are not at their best at the moment as it's dealing with a huge drop of the euro, a national dept that went over the top of what would normally be seen as normal and, to add on bad news, we got 3millions of unsatisfied, because unemployed , french people at least. With that I think we can be called "grounch" for the next following years even though we're already known for grumbling louder than any other europeen countries...Anyway, not a good time to be in France.
But, myselft, I'm really good right now. Being busy suits me. Being exhausted doesn't but a bit of organisation should solve that problem. Between homework and the job I got outside of school, I haven't really got time to do anything else but I'm still finding some breaches in my schedule to READ !

The last book I read was a play of Sartre called Huis Clos. Do you know Sartre? He's a french philosopher, novelist, and play writer of the XXth century, that also took a lead into the resistance and fought through his writings during and after the WWII. About that play...it's the story of three people, two women and a man, that found themselves lock into the same room after being dead but without knowing why. THey're in hell... Why would this room, in which there is a light, that can't be turned off, three coaches, one for each of them, and a statue in bronze, be hell after all? Because "hell is other people" is what will say Garcin, the man character. Everyone already got that feeling once when you stayed with someone for too long and then need to recharge your batteries before seing that person again. Being trapped with the same people for eternity must be pretty tough to survive to, except when you're already dead !  All in all, it's a pretty ironical play on how is it possible to live with each other whithout wanting to kill them.

B.U.S.Y !

Boring Use of Stuggling Youth ! Why does school day in France last for so long? Do they want us, studients, to die trapped into these walls ?! That's too much!! How are we suppose to survive to 8 straight hours being at school every single day ? How could we even get involve into something else than school ?! In France, I'm sure there's no shame in asking "are you sure there's something after?". People don't like school but stick to it, that's funny. Or not. There isn't that many knowing what they would like to do beside studing. Studing...to do what?? "Euhhh (that's very french) I don't know yet). We wonder why french student don't get involve in helping others or don't that sense of purpose that american would have for example, but HOW could they? We're born at school and definitely bored of life by the time we get out. We also like to complain about it and how unfair it is that other countries have earlier ending than us...Sometimes I feel like asking people are you here or not, if you're here that's for a reason, so go on and don't give up !! Because so many studients are here in appearence but their mind is absent. They could have missed without having being noticed! Social skill?? Enthousiasm for novelty ?? Debate?? None of this but fashion.
France love fashion. I don't think that's cliché when you walk through my high school : we're all dressed up as fashion victims to the point it became absurd. Let's make a game out of it, the first one that spots a foreign looking studient wins !! we're so identically dressed that it's not difficult to see who's from where... "Hide and Seek" could perfectly be the new motto of this school. Hide under your appearence an seek who people truly are afterwards! No problem with that of course except when you feel that this whole thing doesn't suit you well. And when it doesn't suit you, well, that's pity first, but then either you change or can wait a long time to find people who're like you. How could it be better to be fake than to simply make the step to others I don't understand. That's what's so hard for people : make a step. "Just do it" that's the shirt we miss in France and people don't know what to believe and what their convictions are or what to do to make what they wish come true. Move it and struggle for what you believe is right not what everybody else's saying !
My point is, communication is a big thing in the world-we're surrunded by informations,image, screens,papers, but still we kind of forget that we can talk to each other.
I leave you on this! oh mon amour :)

Le chainon manquant !

Hello!

That's in two weeks. Only two weeks and I'll get to be at the "chainon manquant" and watch all kind of new talents going from singing to awesome circus, to danse, puppet shows and humorist to fill in! The"chainon manquant" is actually a music festival that's trying to promote new artists coming up on stage and taking their chance with a brand new public (us!). It's a francophone festival that's hosted by Laval for the first time this year. They've selected people coming from lots of different places such as France, but also Belgium and we'll even see some quebecquois here! (doing pupets if I remember right). I can't really tell how much people are looking forward to it but I wish many are going to come and make it more fun for the performers! Anyway, I'll make you listen to a few of them right now so you'll get an idea :

        
                                  

This is "kiss&drive" eh... and there's also Liz cherhal !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbfbTLkiMqE&feature=relmfu
 That's the quebecquois couple, inspired by the thumbs as it seems:

And these are"The skeleton Band", let's introduce them by this video :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beJTSdGafQ4&feature=related 

And many others that are not even on youtube but that I may see !

Hope you're good and busy !

When school begins...

Hello to my favorites Canadian and French people !
(those that are not reading are not my favorites anymore, just kidding)
           So yeah school started the 4th so now, the 5th, I can talk to you a little more about it. Actually I'm pretty excited about everything because it all seems great for now (wait, that it really begins and I won't say the same thing) with awesome classes like philosophy (tons of philo), english, a little bit of italian and a little bit of chinese, plus, maybe, a tiny bit of spanish. I'm taking as many languages as I possibly can and I'm trying to get involved as much as I can in every other subjects. We'll see how well I'm doing after couple of months but at this point of the year I think I'm successful :) (yes I have grapes, stop asking me all the time). After a while I'll get use to start at 8 am and end my school day at 5 pm even if I'll certainly miss these two free hours that I had in my Canadians schedule, which you should be proud of because not everybody gets that chance... So this is it about class, schedules and boring stuff, nothing really new.
              What's new this year for me is I didn't know anybody except one person, I don't think she choosed, from my past school years. Maybe I knew some faces, if you back up a very long time ago (2 years). Well not much anyway. But I met someone as lost as me in this lot of students! American bingo! I'm saving him from getting lost again as he's saving me from loneliness so we made a deal to be friend :) There are others exchange studient too that I haven't met yet. A girl from danemark apparently and some other guys coming from somwhere else. Fun, fun and fun again ! I didn't know, but now I noticed, the programs at school have changed a lot with the new reform that came in 2009 so now I have a class that's about foreign litterature in english ! Meaning?  I'm absolutely not throwing out my english litterature paper from last year.
In the "what's happening at Laval" kind of speech there is also a new music festival called 'le chainon manquant' coming up in september. More news next time...already got homework and that's awesome. Don't believe a word I just say.
If you come across my blog, I say HI to everybody !!!