I needed to go buy some diving equipment this week because I’d like to go down to the south of France and check out some sunshine and beaches. For one week, I will be hanging out with the diving club from Massy, but for the next I will be either by myself, or hopefully meeting another Canadian detached to France.
If you were Monsieur Average in Averageville, France sitting at the Average Café with your five closest average friends, one of you would be “extreme right”. That is, you believe that France’s independence is being lost to the European community. You support the death penalty, building more jails and zero tolerance for delinquents. You have a poor view towards immigration (especially “third world immigration”) which causes unemployment, insecurity and is poor for the economy. French citizenship should be restricted to those worthy of it, every citizen should have a job, and the family (especially the French Family) should be subsidized. In short, one of the six at the table voted for Jean-Marie La Pen — all these opinions were taken from his official brochure, mailed to every voter in the country.
This weekend we went to Parc de Sceaux so I could fulfill last week’s promise that I would take some pictures of a park in Paris. In fact, Parc de Sceaux is outside the boundaries of Paris to the south, but it is still accessible from the RER (high speed suburban train), so it counts.
Write when you have something to say — write what you know — enjoy what you write — just write. I’ve been finding it a bit difficult to keep to my schedule, but it hasn’t been because nothing is happening. I’ve been enjoying the springtime. The next time that you move to a foreign city, I recommend doing it in the winter. Every day gets better, brighter and more colorful.
GKarlsen
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