21-12-07
234. Merry Christmas to you all
No blog until the new year (and no job, too). Everything is allowed during these holiday times made for joy!
See you soon, enjoy the fêtes. Kisses.
20-12-07
233. Frozen water in the middle of the Cour Napoleon, around the Pyramide, Musée du Louvre, Paris
It's so coldy for days -- but gloriously sunny -- that even in the core of Paris, water freezes in the Pyramide's basins corners... I guess
Seagulls upon the deepest part of the basin, all around the main Pyramide, numbed and asleep by the cold, remain still ...
18-12-07
231. Tired and not inspired
I have a new temporary job. I don't like it. But I must earn my living.
05-12-07
220. Stomach flu
Oh my god, I feel so bad. My head is like a drum, mostly when I glare at the computer's screen and I'm about to vomit... I'm never courageous when I'm sick phew. Happily this kind of illness is short.
25-11-07
210. Weekly updated vocabulary
24-11-07
209. Laziness
Just tasting the right to remain lazy tonight.
15-11-07
200. The two-hundredth post
I'm proud of my daily constancy and very sometimes of what I can call "my perseverance". I may not have an awesome learning method but I've never given up, despite the discouragement of working alone, without any teacher, without any co-learner. I know now that I often rest upon my translation skills and my taste for readings. It helps not to let down, it helps to still keep in touch with the language.
Finally, I feel some gratitude towards Grillon and Agnès for their significant and close presence. I hope they don't feel compelled to come in here... I'm kidding ;) I hope they rather find amusing to visit me, as much as I do in their own blogs.
So, thanks to you two. Take care.
@Grillon: please, send me via mail the link of the cottage.
11-11-07
196. Weekly updated vocabulary
07-11-07
192. Self-censorship once again (auto-censure)
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I'm quite amazed by my daily capacity to face the hard work of writing in another language than mine. I really struggle to achieve my daily duty [regarding working English]. If I don't, I feel merely guilty. Very compelling odd feeling. Obligation reinforced by the feeling I can't further anymore my progress: without any teacher or corrector, I'm feeling currently lost. The idea you suggested, Grillon (here), is good but people are friendly, they won't never point out every mistake I'll make. And applying this idea means to be available, I mean it is required to have a lot of time. Maybe it's just a question of organisation and -- again -- patience. In fact, I must admit I need a teacher and I deserve to have one because I just want to improve in an efficient and methodical way. The main issue of such a plan: money...
From that matter, I think it would be much more easy to talk about my private life but I really can't and all the things I would have liked to put into English words remain doggedly hidden to this blog. Talking about news and theorical/abstract things is not so easy, actually -- I mean words don't come easy in that case, unlike the flow of personal thoughts that flood my mind and the list of events that I've just experienced and lived.
Someone could suggest me to create another blog in order to let myself go without any fear sparked off by the fact some people who visit my blog know me physically (see here my previous post). Why not some day.
06-11-07
191. Learning alone
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It's so hard to learn alone, without any teacher, without anybody who could correct my mistakes. I feel I can't further my own learning. I'd have liked to find a tutor via Internet.
