tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56822052011-04-21T17:45:23.684-04:00Preparing for and spending seven months in France should give me a lot to talk aboutKarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comBlogger351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1077540352839847342004-02-23T13:45:00.000-05:002004-02-23T07:55:35.686-05:00

Don't really feel like updating much pretty tired and only half way through my day of teaching 6 classes plus I have football practice tonight. Didn't play in the game in Cannes hadn't received my lisence yet. We lost, I did play against Clermont-Ferrand last week. I will play on the 29th vs. Nice The game will be at 2pm sunday at Stade Pierre Dubouf. If any lyon people out there are

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I have gone to two practices this week. The first, on monday, they just watched film of saturdays game. Yesterday it was raining so the field was to wet to practice on. We did walk through some plays at 3/4 speed. It was fun, but I don't know how I will get in good enough shape to play four quarters of football with only two practices a week. The team plays at Montpellier this weekend. I

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I watched the Lyon Falcons play yesterday. It was a lot of fun to watch. Unfortunately they were playing a team much better than them so they didn't really stand a chance. The game was full of penalties, mental errors, and just plain bad football. I talked to the head coach after the game and am planning on going to practice tonight finally.

Karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1073918132257269722004-01-12T09:35:00.000-05:002004-01-12T09:39:50.293-05:00

I have aquired a new nickname. Only amongst a few people and I don't think it will stick. That new nick name is "Colt". I was at the St. James the other night talking with a few people when a girl entered the pub. As she wlked up to us she pointed at me and said "I know you. Your name's Colt." Everyone was quite amused that Colt was what came to mind so now they are trying to call me by

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I spent break in Lyon. Christmas eve I had a few people over to play cards. Talking to everyone who was spending time in Moose Lake made it feel like christmass and I felt fine after that. Christmas day the people I had over the night before had a dinner at their place. New Years eve was a costume party at J.B.'s country house again. The theme was cartoons and fairytales, so I went as a

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I haven't posted to this for so long I was sure nobody but my parents still bothered to check this site. Then I got an email from another assistant wondering if I was still planning on posting at all, so I figured I would try to bring things up to date as much as possible. Too keep thiings eqsy to understand I will post a series of blogs in the order they should have been posted.

Karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1073569105379327522003-12-16T14:38:00.000-05:002004-01-08T08:41:29.576-05:00

I finally got outside of Lyon for the first time since I arrived here. Last weekend J.B., the brother from my old host family, invited me to a party at his country house. There were 10 of us and it was a really good time. I got to play Taboo in French which was really hard but Noah another American was on the other team so it evened things out. The weather was really amazing. We spent a

Karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1073568426808352382003-11-30T08:27:00.000-05:002004-01-08T08:30:35.123-05:00

Let's pretend I posted this on Nov 30. Well I had quite a successfull Fake Thanksgiving. Fake Thanksgiving is what I took to calling it because I had to have the dinner on Friday. I work on thursdays and couldn't spend all day cooking. I started on Wednesday looking for a turkey. I found a butcher shop at the Halles de Lyon that gets their turkeys in on thursday mornings and would keep at

Karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1069080029845510452003-11-17T09:40:00.000-05:002003-11-17T09:40:52.186-05:00

I only get to the internet once or twice a week in Lyon, and the last two times I have tried to update this weblog the site has been down. I have found an Apartment!!!! We have been living there for almost three weeks now. It is everything I could have possibly hoped for. I furnished my room with a loveseat, coffee table, reading chair, three small chairs, a desk/table and a set of shelves

Karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1066908627266676112003-10-23T07:30:00.000-04:002003-10-23T07:30:26.980-04:00

Still Homeless We turned in all our paper work last week for the apartment, and were told we should find out monday or tuesday. We still haven't heard, but we'll probably call again today. Right now we I am a few days into a week and a half of vacation. I had been sticking around Lyon for a few days till we heard about the apartment, figuring if we got it I would need to sign stuff and hand

Karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1066051661406071042003-10-13T09:27:00.000-04:002003-10-13T09:27:41.173-04:00

Happy Thanksgiving To all the Canadians that is. We will be having instant mashed potatoes at "l'auberge" (the hostel) tonight to celebrate the holiday with our friends from the north. Notice I said at the hostel because that's where we still live. We have found some apartments, but until we find french citizens to cosign our leases we can't actually get an apartment. My three potential

Karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1065029191487771492003-10-01T13:26:00.000-04:002003-10-01T13:27:45.366-04:00

Well here I am, I went to my lycee today and got my teaching shedule. It looks like there are 11 classes I will be working with. I will meet with either a third or half the class once a week. So I will only see each student once every two or three weeks. I am still looking for an apartment. This is proving very difficult. I have a few potential roommates that I am looking with. We are

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I'm here I don't feel like wrting much because the keyboard is french and I can barely hold my eyes open. Missed my connection in Paris and had to wait three hours for the next flight. Got to the hostel the view is amazing!!! I might go grab a pint of Beamish before I pass out for the next 17 hours.

Karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1064596688098528272003-09-26T13:18:00.000-04:002003-09-26T13:18:07.976-04:00

See You on the Other Side... of the Atlantic that is. I'm writing this just before I head to the airport. I would normally be really excited about a long flight like this with free cocktails, and a stop at the NWA World Club before my flight, but I have a really bad cold right now. My luggage weighs a total of probably around 100lbs. My heaviest bag weighs in at 62lbs. So tomorrow I will be

Karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1064527729178741182003-09-25T18:08:00.000-04:002003-09-25T18:08:49.210-04:00

I leave tomorrow I can't beleive it. Time has flown by so fast. I can't beleive I'll be on an airplane in 24 hours. Today I went to AAA and bought 1000 Euros in travelers checks. It cost me $1245, two years ago I that would have cost me about $945. So now I have my visa, travellers checks, have started packing, and bought a digital camera. All I have left is a little more packing, a good

Karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1064526408976556932003-09-25T17:46:00.000-04:002003-09-25T17:46:48.476-04:00

Got a Digital Camera I bought a digital camera yesterday for the trip. It's an HP photosmart 735, 3.2 MP, 3X optical zoom and 5X Digital zoom. I spent $350 on the camera, a camera bag, and a 128M card for it. It's got lots of really cool features and I love it. So if anyone is looking for a digital camera I would reccomend that one, but I've only had it for one day so that could change, but I

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Went to D.C. and got my Visa Well, my body learned its' lesson from last time. I went to bed last night about 1:30am and was planning on waking up between 6:00am and 6:30am, but I woke up at 4:30am. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't fall asleep for more than a few minutes. I had a pretty tough time getting to the embassy, because so many roads in the area were closed because of power

Karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1063810008300921242003-09-17T10:46:00.000-04:002003-09-17T10:46:47.993-04:00

Went to D.C. to get my Visa I woke up early yesterday to drive to D.C. to get my visa, but I didn't get as early a start as I wanted, but I still had enough time if I hurried. Then I got lost, then I hit construction trafiic, then I got lost again. Finally I got to the embassy at 12:25, according to their website they close at 12:45. When they close do they stop letting people in, or do they

Karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1063593921495382752003-09-14T22:45:00.000-04:002003-09-14T22:45:21.390-04:00

Shout out? I am trying to add a comment option to my weblog. I just to see what, if anything, people think of my comments here.

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Two Weeks and Counting I leave two weeks from right about now. I was at work today when I realized that it was friday, the fateful day every week when I can say "I leave for france in exactly ____ weeks". Three weeks sure sounded close, but two is really exciting. I am now starting to mentally assemble a packing list of all the things that I am going to take, and I am so excited. Watching The

Karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1062908775970706942003-09-07T00:26:00.000-04:002003-09-07T00:26:16.003-04:00

We Have Contact... With my school that is. The head of the English department at LGT Parc de Chambrieres has emailed me back. She says they have two rooms for assistants to stay in, unfortunately they are being renovated this year. She also tells me there will be one other English assistant at the school, she is British. Other than that all the information I got was the school does not have

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I'm in Yahoo and Google. My blog can now be found in searches on Yahoo and Google. From what my tracker tells me, other than me searching terms that would obviously lead me to this website to find out if it is in there, people have come across my website repeatedly by searching for the terms "sunburn itch". I searched for these terms myself and found that on Yahoo my site is the 8th most

Karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1062434095034062172003-09-01T12:34:00.000-04:002003-09-01T12:43:35.950-04:00

Just watched Howard Dean on T.V. CSPAN showed a Howard Dean Rally on TV the other day and it was a great speach. If I wasn't going to be in France for the next seven months I think I would be looking for a way to participate in trying to get him nominated as the democratic candidate and being elected president. I've watched him on T.V. when I've had the chance and it's the first time I've

Karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1062433508354022852003-09-01T12:25:00.000-04:002003-09-01T12:25:08.390-04:00

I don't like that title I don't like how the title looks on that post, so I think I'll stick with just putting bold type at the begining of my posts.

Karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1061874655473810452003-08-26T01:10:00.000-04:002003-08-26T01:10:55.520-04:00

Well Blogger now lets me enter a title on my blog. I wonder if it will look any differant thatn what I was doing before making them bold. Added two new pictures on the left. I'm using photos.yahoo.com we'll see how that works. Pretty soon I'll probably decide to actually pay some money to use a web hosting service. Maybe I'll be able to pay for that out of my poker winnings.

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I Got My Arrete, I Got My Arrete, I Got my Arrete, Whoooo-Oooo-Hooo-Ooooo That's what I have been running around singing. The mailman rang the doorbell today because my college diploma wouldn't fit in the mailbox, but I almost tossed that package over my shoulder when I saw the return address on a brown envelope said Academie de Lyon. I tore it open and saw that my school was located in

Karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1061538782059646362003-08-22T03:53:00.000-04:002003-08-22T03:53:02.116-04:00

Concerts and Sunburn I've never had a sunburn itch this much, and it's making it impossible to sleep. To make productive use of being awake at 3 am I've been looking at tour schedules on-line, and have found a few concerts I might want to check out. Blur will be in Zurich during my first week and a half vacation. During the same vacation I could see Bob Dylan if I could make it to Prague,

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Just Back From the Jersey Shore Two big firsts for me since Sunday, my first trip to the Jersey shore and my first Radiohead concert. I drove down to visit a few friends in Wildwood, NJ on Sunday. I was going to have to entertain myself for the evening on Monday when they drove to Camden for a concert, but there ended up being an extra ticket. I'm not very familiar with Radiohead besides the

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Has my Arrete Arrived I ended my post last night as soon as I realized that I hadn't checked the mail that day. So I went down stairs to see where the mail had been put while I was at work, lo and behold.... my arrete still hasn't arrived. This is drving me nuts. Unlike some academies Lyon doesn't tell you the name or location of your school before you receive your arrete so I still have no

Karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1061096597745655592003-08-17T01:03:00.000-04:002003-08-17T01:04:38.796-04:00

American Football in France I have found a way to pass some time while in France, meet some French people, and get some exercise. I'm going to try and play football, American Football that is, for a team in Lyon. Les Falcons de Bron-Villeurbanne. I was looking at their website and the biggest person on their roster is 108 Kg. Right now I'm about 100 Kg (220 lbs) which would make me the 4th

Karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1061010946367914622003-08-16T01:15:00.000-04:002003-08-16T02:03:52.490-04:00

Well I had my first documented visitor to my blog so now I do have to check for typos. I received a very helpful email from Stephen assuring me he is not a stalker and suggesting a tracker I could use. I am inclined to beleive he isn't stalking me partly because his suggestion was very helpful, but mostly because I had always pictured my stalker(s) as being female. I do now have a tracker on

Karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1060977017819693712003-08-15T15:50:00.000-04:002003-08-15T15:50:16.260-04:00

Work is so slow today that I actually have two hours off between my shifts. Although the Exton Square Mall is very exciting I decided to spend my little break at home. I removed the link to my old school website with the photos and created links directly to the photos, that way all my previously mentioned stalkers can see what I look like and decide whether or not they would like to continue

Karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1060958902735708472003-08-15T10:48:00.000-04:002003-08-15T10:54:51.050-04:00

Well I'm off to spend 36 of the next 60 hours waiting tables. It should be a good time. I hope we're crazy busy and it's worth my time. I sure wish with the free blogspot site that you could get a tracker becuase it would be nice to know if anyone see's this. Actually it would be most usefull just to know that, in fact, no one sees this because then I wouldn't haven't to worry about spelling

Karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1060910659855274332003-08-14T21:24:00.000-04:002003-08-14T21:30:02.800-04:00

Well I figured out how to change the links on this blog. Step one in making it slightly interesting. Now all I need is someone to write interesting things for me and then I would be set. I do realize that I am probably talking to myself here, but I'm just trying to get used to this format. Then again now that I have this listed as my website on the assistant's website I might get someone

Karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115899263245587434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682205.post-1060904659839549702003-08-14T19:44:00.000-04:002003-08-14T20:01:41.393-04:00

Well this is day one of my Blog. I am trying this out as a first forray into having some type of website. I'd like to have an actual web site, where the blog is only a part of it, that doesn't force my users to look at ads. If anyone actually finds this and has some low cost (or preferably free) options to suggest let me know. I may end up using Yahoo $12/month for 50MB.

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