just a quick note

friday the thirteenth aaaa!!! Trying to find a waitressing job here in Lyon, already tried two places and didn't get past the test runs but that's cool cause one job had an angry boss who yelled A LOT and the other would have been really hard to get to wilst going to school. I'm starting to rethink this whole going to school thing this year... This first year I'd be doing a degree in linguistics because the administration told me that was the only way to get teaching french as a foreign language certification but then I found out later that you can get a degree in translation and get training to teach french. By the time I'd found that out it was too late to change. So I'm starting to think about going back to Chicago and getting a degree teaching english as a foreign language before heading off to asia for the rest of the year. I would come back to France in the fall of 2011 to start a Chinese-English-French translation degree. This way I'd get experience doing something I really enjoy and want to do long into the future, plus being able to earn some mone to put aside as well as becoming familiar with mandarin. We'll see...

Been busy busy busy, started busking a little and was raking in 10 euros an hour on average... it was a very interesting experience that got me thinking about audience manipulation but was also quite stressful. I started busiking while a wonderful english friend of mine who I met in Berlin was visiting, here's a photo of us:


Juggling viola and waitressing is not so easy, the viola juggling stick kind of fell on the ground and rolled under my couch if I may metaphorically say so. I started marking on a calender every day I play the viola, it's very motivating. Roommates are gone, both working in different cities in France for the rest of the month... Stoped reading for a while and now started "The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One" by William K Black which is excellent and I highly recommend it. Dreaming of Berlin and learning german and going over there and busking. I wonder if I'll ever love speaking another foreign language as much as I love French. I constantly enjoy French, new words and gramar forming new pathways in my brain.

Had an interview today with the owner/head chef of a very prestigious restaurant here in Lyon, he had the tricolor red-white-blue collar which means he passed a national exam to achieve culinairy greatness. He spent a decade living in Chicago, we had a lot to talk about.

Ok, going to bed! More later, more soon! Love.