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Merry Christmas. It's late at night and I'm listening to the (illegal) fireworks. I've been neglecting this blog quite a bit: my last real post was in September, and a lot has happened since. I spent the second week of November in France and Belgium with some school friends, crawling around in Nazi bunkers and Flanders trenches and getting assailed by the Normandy winds. Here are some details I can remember off the top of my head:
- nearly asphyxiated to death in a Sephora after being dragged along by the girls in the group
- pretended to be a pickpocket
- watched street vendors escape from the Paris police, possibly winning the world record in the 400m sprint
- was majorly constipated for days due to exclusive meat-and-cheese diet (my roommates made fun of me relentlessly for this and tried to force gut health medicine on me)
- had a Frenchman on a motorbike pretend to drive-by shoot my friends and I in Caen, yelling "BRAP BRAP BRAP MOTHERFUCKERRR" (we collapsed in laughter)
- found out "cavalry" meant "tank unit" in WWII -- though for a second I had a vision of Napoleonic hussars locked in a skirmish with Panzer
- lost my copy of War and Peace in a hotel room :,(
- had to convince my friends not to do a rendition of Erika in a restaurant in Dieppe (cut it out, Caleb, you'll give the poor woman a generational flashback).
- ran up the pebble beaches of Dieppe, yelling "artillery!" while having rocks thrown at me
- skillfully evaded horse drawn carriages in Bruges (and saw the Madonna too)
- ate five bowls of spaghetti sauce (and witnessed Caleb eat six, with noodles. We began praying we wouldn't get dessert)
- dropped an artillery shell in a museum and got chewed out by my favourite science teacher (I felt very sorry)
- saw a beer pipeline
- trudged through a necropolis in the fog, rows of tombstones stretching further than the eye could see
- visited churches and ate Flemish rabbit stew in a Mozart-themed brasserie, which made me feel like a pilgrim.
Apart from that, I've been working on a long paper about the French and West German nuclear power programs (I'm about 6k words in at the moment) and just taught myself HTML and CSS. I'm in the process of learning Javascript and JSON now, which I've got to get done before winter break's over. Started building a personal website today.
I also haven't been to the gym in months (yeah, I know). I've gotten soft in the gut and weak in the arms (not that I was ever very strong). That won't do.
I've barely done anything today, but I'm so tired that my arms are falling asleep as I type.
Thanks for reading. Happy holidays.
- nearly asphyxiated to death in a Sephora after being dragged along by the girls in the group
- pretended to be a pickpocket
- watched street vendors escape from the Paris police, possibly winning the world record in the 400m sprint
- was majorly constipated for days due to exclusive meat-and-cheese diet (my roommates made fun of me relentlessly for this and tried to force gut health medicine on me)
- had a Frenchman on a motorbike pretend to drive-by shoot my friends and I in Caen, yelling "BRAP BRAP BRAP MOTHERFUCKERRR" (we collapsed in laughter)
- found out "cavalry" meant "tank unit" in WWII -- though for a second I had a vision of Napoleonic hussars locked in a skirmish with Panzer
- lost my copy of War and Peace in a hotel room :,(
- had to convince my friends not to do a rendition of Erika in a restaurant in Dieppe (cut it out, Caleb, you'll give the poor woman a generational flashback).
- ran up the pebble beaches of Dieppe, yelling "artillery!" while having rocks thrown at me
- skillfully evaded horse drawn carriages in Bruges (and saw the Madonna too)
- ate five bowls of spaghetti sauce (and witnessed Caleb eat six, with noodles. We began praying we wouldn't get dessert)
- dropped an artillery shell in a museum and got chewed out by my favourite science teacher (I felt very sorry)
- saw a beer pipeline
- trudged through a necropolis in the fog, rows of tombstones stretching further than the eye could see
- visited churches and ate Flemish rabbit stew in a Mozart-themed brasserie, which made me feel like a pilgrim.
Apart from that, I've been working on a long paper about the French and West German nuclear power programs (I'm about 6k words in at the moment) and just taught myself HTML and CSS. I'm in the process of learning Javascript and JSON now, which I've got to get done before winter break's over. Started building a personal website today.
I also haven't been to the gym in months (yeah, I know). I've gotten soft in the gut and weak in the arms (not that I was ever very strong). That won't do.
I've barely done anything today, but I'm so tired that my arms are falling asleep as I type.
Thanks for reading. Happy holidays.
