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		<title>Second Day in Burlington / Deuxième journée à Burlington</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[And I finally found Nick!
Et j&#8217;ai enfin trouvé Nick!
  

I finally managed to talk to him on MSN in the morning and we arranged to meet in the afternoon. I was meeting my friend Carol for lunch and a little shopping trip at Barnes &#38; Noble so I had little time to talk to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=great2008project.wordpress.com&blog=2509739&post=35&subd=great2008project&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p><em>Et j&#8217;ai enfin trouvé Nick!</em></p>
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<p>I finally managed to talk to him on MSN in the morning and we arranged to meet in the afternoon. I was meeting my friend Carol for lunch and a little shopping trip at Barnes &amp; Noble so I had little time to talk to him, but we did manage to get over our mutual annoyance (I was angry at him for not meeting me the previous day and not telling me if he was busy or not, and he was upset because I was rather cold to him at first) and set up a place and a time.</p>
<p>It was nice to see Carol again. She had cut her hair very short and I didn&#8217;t recognize her at first. We had lunch at Olive Garden and then went to Barnes &amp; Noble. I bought a few novels and a cookbook with breakfast recipes  (you know, eggs, pancakes, muffins and so on). Then I helped her do some grocery shopping and carry her purchases to her car (it wasn&#8217;t easy for her, she is nearly 8 months pregnant). Then she drove me back to my hotel. It was pretty early in fact &#8211; I should have realized that she would tire quickly. But well, I don&#8217;t know much about pregnancies &#8211; most of what I know, I learnt by playing <em>The Sims 2</em>, so it&#8217;s mostly stereotypes.</p>
<p>I went to my room to drop my purchases, then decided to go to the campus and spend some time at the library again, or see if Nick was working at the Media Services and surprise him there. When I got there, I didn&#8217;t see him, so I walked through the lab, thinking he might be working on a computer there, but I didn&#8217;t find him. So I walked back and decided to go to the library, but at that moment I saw him. He was pushing a cart with some stuff on it and he didn&#8217;t notice me, so I just said, &#8220;Hi, do you remember me?&#8221; and he recognized my voice, looked up and saw me.</p>
<p>I was afraid it would be awkward or at least feel a little weird to see each other again after nearly two years, but it wasn&#8217;t as bad as I feared. It was a little as if we had last seen each other just a few days before. We didn&#8217;t talk much, since he was working, but I think it was best that we just talked for a few minutes then parted. That way we could (at least, I know I need to) deal with the little shock on our own, and when we met again later on it could be really as if we had not been apart for a long time.</p>
<p>I spent a little time at the library and it was nice as always. I really like this place. Then it closed and I went out to wait for Nick. I was more or less supposed to meet Chieko at 5PM outside the library but she wasn&#8217;t there so I thought that maybe she hadn&#8217;t been able to come, and when Nick arrived I decided to go with him.</p>
<p>There was a reception in the dining hall for graduates and their families and friends, so we went there. I saw some people I knew and it was nice to see them again. We stayed there a long time &#8211; then we decided to go downtown. I wanted to find jeans for my Dad and Nick wanted to buy a new shirt to wear at graduation and maybe for job interviews.</p>
<p>Shopping with Nick was quite funny. He couldn&#8217;t decide what he wanted and didn&#8217;t want to ask the nice lady who seemed in charge of the men&#8217;s clothing department. Eventually she asked <strong>me</strong> what he was looking for, because she had noticed we had been there for over one hour and he didn&#8217;t seem to have found anything yet. So I told her and she showed me (and him, when he came out of the fitting room) shirts that were appropriate for job interviews. He eventually bought one (not one she showed him, but one she did approve of) and I bought two pairs of jeans for my Dad. The lady asked me if Nick had tried them on and I said they weren&#8217;t for him, which seemed to confuse her (I guess she thought we were a couple) so I explained they were for my Dad (I didn&#8217;t want her to think I was seeing two guys or something). She used coupons so that we both got reduced prices, which was really nice of her.</p>
<p>After that we went to Borders and I bought a bunch of books and DVDs, knowing I would be ashamed of spending so much later &#8211; but well, I can&#8217;t resist books and DVDs. Then we walked out and it was late, the buses were not running anymore, and it was slightly raining. Nick wanted me to call a taxi, but we didn&#8217;t know any taxi company and besides I wanted to walk. He didn&#8217;t want to let me walk alone, so he walked with me. I didn&#8217;t like that because I knew he was tired and didn&#8217;t want to do it, but thought he had to. We didn&#8217;t talk much on the way and I was sorry about that. I really wished there was another way. I tried to tell him it was ridiculous and I could very well walk to the hotel on my own, but he didn&#8217;t want to listen.</p>
<p>When I got back to my room and dropped my evening purchases on the bed next to the ones I had made in the afternoon, it was over 11PM. I checked my email and a few websites, and found out that the hotel I stayed in at Champaign (it was the EconoLodge Inn and Suites on Bloomington Road, just so you know) had charged my credit card. I had to pay them $150 although my stay had been fully paid when I had booked it a couple of months earlier and I should have owned them nothing. I immediately emailed them to ask for an explanation and emailed my mother to tell her about it. Then I couldn&#8217;t keep the problem out of my head and it took me a long time to fall asleep, which wasn&#8217;t a good thing because I had to get up early in the morning &#8211; I had to be downtown at 9AM and it would take about 45 minutes for me to walk there.</p>
<p>- &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; -</p>
<p><em>J&#8217;ai finalement réussi à lui parler sur MSN le matin et nous avons décidé de nous retrouver dans l&#8217;après-midi. Je devais voir mon amie Carol pour déjeuner et aller faire quelques achats à Barnes &amp; Noble donc je n&#8217;avais pas beaucoup de temps pour parler à Nick, mais nous avons réussi à surmonter notre mutuel agacement (j&#8217;étais en colère contre lui pour ne pas m&#8217;avoir retrouvée la veille et ne pas m&#8217;avoir dit s&#8217;il était occupé ou pas, et il n&#8217;était pas content parce que j&#8217;étais assez froide avec lui au début) et à fixer une heure et un lieu de rendez-vous.<br />
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<p><em>C&#8217;était sympa de revoir Carol. Elle avait coupé ses cheveux très court et je ne l&#8217;ai pas reconnue tout de suite. Nous sommes allées déjeuner à Olive Garden, puis faire un tour à Barnes &amp; Noble. J&#8217;ai acheté quelques romans et un livre de recettes de cuisine pour le petit-déjeuner (vous savez, oeufs, pancakes, muffins et tout ça). Puis je l&#8217;ai aidée à faire quelques courses au supermarché et à transporter ses achats jusqu&#8217;à sa voiture (ce n&#8217;était pas facile pour elle, elle est enceinte de près de huit mois). Puis elle m&#8217;a déposée à l&#8217;hôtel. Il était assez tôt &#8211; j&#8217;aurais dû réaliser qu&#8217;elle se fatiguerait assez vite. Mais bon, je n&#8217;y connais pas grand-chose aux grossesses &#8211; ce que je sais, je l&#8217;ai surtout appris en jouant aux </em><em>Sims 2, donc ce sont surtout des stéréotypes.<br />
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<p><em>Je suis allée déposer mes achats dans ma chambre, puis j&#8217;ai décidé d&#8217;aller sur le campus et de passer un moment à la bibliothèque, ou d&#8217;aller voir aux Media Services si Nick travaillait et lui faire une surprise. Quand j&#8217;y suis arrivée, je ne l&#8217;ai pas vu. J&#8217;ai fait le tour de la salle info, en pensant qu&#8217;il travaillait peut-être sur un des ordinateurs, mais je ne l&#8217;ai pas trouvé. Donc j&#8217;ai fait demi-tour et décidé d&#8217;aller à la bibliothèque, mais à ce moment-là je l&#8217;ai vu. Il poussait un chariot avec des trucs dessus et il ne m&#8217;avait pas vue, donc j&#8217;ai juste dit &#8220;Hi, do you remember me?&#8221; (&#8220;Salut, tu te souviens de moi ?) et il a reconnu ma voix, a relevé la tête et m&#8217;a vue. </em></p>
<p><em>J&#8217;avais peur qu&#8217;on soit gênés ou au moins que ça fasse un peu bizarre de se revoir après presque deux ans, mais ça s&#8217;est mieux passé que je ne craignais. C&#8217;était un peu comme si nous nous étions vus pour la dernière fois seulement quelques jours plus tôt. Nous n&#8217;avons pas parlé beaucoup, puisqu&#8217;il travaillait, mais je pense que c&#8217;était mieux de ne parler que quelques minutes puis de se séparer. Comme ça nous pouvions (enfin, moi, au moins, je sais que j&#8217;en avais besoin) gérer le choc chacun de son côté, et quand nous nous reverrions un peu plus tard ce serait vraiment comme si nous n&#8217;avions pas été séparés longtemps.<br />
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<p><em>J&#8217;ai passé un moment à la bibliothèque et c&#8217;était agréable, comme toujours. J&#8217;aime beaucoup cet endroit. A la fermeture, je suis sortie attendre Nick. Je devais plus ou moins retrouver Chieko à 17h devant la bibliothèque mais elle n&#8217;était pas là donc j&#8217;ai pensé que peut-être elle n&#8217;avait pas pu venir, et quand Nick est arrivé j&#8217;ai décidé de partir avec lui.<br />
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<p><em>Il y avait une réception dans le réfectoire pour les futurs diplômés et leurs proches, donc c&#8217;est là que nous sommes allés. J&#8217;ai vu quelques personnes que je connaissais et c&#8217;était sympa de les revoir. Nous sommes restés assez longtemps, puis nous avons décidé d&#8217;aller en ville. Je voulais trouver des jeans pour mon Papounet et Nick voulais s&#8217;acheter une nouvelle chemise pour la cérémonie de remise des diplômes et peut-être pour les entretiens d&#8217;embauche aussi.<br />
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<p><em>C&#8217;était assez drôle de faire du shopping avec Nick. Il n&#8217;arrivait pas à se décider et ne voulait pas demander d&#8217;aide à la gentille dame qui semblait responsable du rayon homme. Finalement, elle m&#8217;a demandé à moi ce qu&#8217;il cherchait, parce qu&#8217;elle avait remarqué qu&#8217;on était là depuis plus d&#8217;une heure et il ne semblait avoir rien trouvé qui lui plaise. Donc je lui ai expliqué et elle m&#8217;a montré (et à lui, quand il est sorti de la cabine d&#8217;essayage) des chemises qui étaient appropriées pour des entretiens d&#8217;embauche. Il a fini par en acheter une (pas une de celles qu&#8217;elle lui avait montrées, mais une qu&#8217;elle a approuvée) et j&#8217;ai acheté deux jeans pour mon Papounet. La dame m&#8217;a demandé si Nick les avait essayés et j&#8217;ai dit qu&#8217;ils n&#8217;étaient pas pour lui, ce qui l&#8217;a troublée (je suppose qu&#8217;elle pensait que nous étions en couple) donc j&#8217;ai expliqué qu&#8217;ils étaient pour mon père (je ne voulais pas qu&#8217;elle pense que je sortais avec deux garçons ou un truc comme ça). Elle a utilisé des bons de réduction pour nous deux, ce qui était vraiment gentil de sa part.<br />
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<p><em>Après ça nous sommes allés à Borders et j&#8217;ai acheté un tas de livres et de DVDs. Je savais que j&#8217;aurais honte plus tard d&#8217;avoir dépensé autant &#8211; mais bon, je ne peux pas résister aux livres et aux DVDs. Puis nous sommes sortis et il était tard, il n&#8217;y avait plus de bus, et il pleuvait un peu. Nick voulait que j&#8217;appelle un taxi, mais nous ne connaissions le numéro d&#8217;aucune compagnie et de toute façon je voulais marcher. Il ne voulait pas me laisser marcher toute seule, donc il m&#8217;a raccompagnée. Je n&#8217;étais pas contente parce que je voyais qu&#8217;il était fatigué et qu&#8217;il ne voulait pas le faire, mais il pensait qu&#8217;il devait le faire. Nous n&#8217;avons pas beaucoup parlé en route et j&#8217;étais assez triste. J&#8217;aurais voulu qu&#8217;il y ait un moyen de faire autrement. J&#8217;ai essayé de lui dire que c&#8217;était idiot et que je pouvais tout à fait rentrer à pied à l&#8217;hôtel toute seule, mais il n&#8217;a pas voulu m&#8217;écouter.<br />
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<p><em>Quand je me suis retrouvée dans ma chambre et ai laissé tomber mes achats du soir sur le lit à côté de ceux de l&#8217;après-midi, il était plus de 23h. J&#8217;ai relevé mes emails et regardé quelques sites Web, et découvert que l&#8217;hôtel où j&#8217;étais descendue à Champaign (c&#8217;est l&#8217;EconoLodge Inn and Suites sur Bloomington Road, pour vous prévenir) avait débité ma carte de crédit. Je leur devais 150$, même si j&#8217;avais payé mon séjour quand je l&#8217;avais réservé deux mois plus tôt, et n&#8217;aurais donc rien dû leur devoir. Je leur ai immédiatement envoyé un email pour demander des explications et ensuite j&#8217;ai envoyé un email à ma mère pour lui raconter. Après ça je ne pouvais plus arrêter d&#8217;y penser et il m&#8217;a fallu un long moment pour m&#8217;endormir, ce qui était ennuyeux parce que je devais me lever tôt le lendemain &#8211; il fallait que je sois en ville à 9h et il me faudrait environ 45 minutes pour y aller à pied.<br />
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<p><em>[Désolée - mon français devient exécrable. J'espère que ça reste compréhensible. Je vais devoir faire une cure intensive de lecture en français pour arriver à écrire correctement en français à nouveau...]</em></p>
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		<title>Sorry / Désolée</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still alive. I&#8217;m all right (mostly &#8211; except for jetlag and lack of sleep, but that was to be expected). I&#8217;m home.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>I&#8217;m still alive. I&#8217;m all right (mostly &#8211; except for jetlag and lack of sleep, but that was to be expected). I&#8217;m home.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll write about the last two days in Burlington and the trip back home as soon as I can, that is probably on Wednesday. For now, I have a bunch of stuff to put away, two huge suitcases to store, and a lot of homework to do. And I&#8217;m so tired that I decided, for the second time this year (the first time was during the transportation strikes, when I was sick and knew I couldn&#8217;t walk to the university anymore) not to go to class tomorrow morning. It&#8217;s an 8:30AM class and I don&#8217;t think I can get up at 6:30 tomorrow, so I asked a friend if she could give me her notes and sent an email to the teacher to apologize and explain the situation. I&#8217;ll go to bed early tonight, sleep a little late tomorrow, do my homework, then go to my 4:00PM class. And hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to get up at 7:30 on Wednesday &#8211; not that I have much choice anyway, there is a quiz in that class and I don&#8217;t want to miss it. But by then I should be all right again.</p>
<p>Darn. Using a QWERTZ keyboard after two weeks using exclusively a British QWERTY is really hard. I keep forgetting where the various punctuation marks are and I simply don&#8217;t try to type accents anymore. The good thing is that my old Toshiba&#8217;s screen (it&#8217;s a 1024&#215;768 15&#8243; screen) seems really big after using the Asus EEE all the time. I don&#8217;t even miss the Compal&#8217;s better screen when browsing the Internet. And it&#8217;s good to have the del.icio.us sidebar on Firefox again. I really missed it on the Asus. I&#8217;m sure I could have installed it there too, but I never found the time to actually do it.</p>
<p>- &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - -</p>
<p><em>Je suis toujours vivante. Je vais bien (en gros &#8211; à part le décalage horaire et le manque de sommeil, mais il fallait s&#8217;y attendre). Je suis rentrée à la maison.<br />
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<p><em>Je vais écrire les entrées à propos de mes deux derniers jours à Burlington et du retour en France dès que je peux, c&#8217;est-à-dire probablement mercredi. Pour l&#8217;instant, j&#8217;ai un tas de trucs à ranger, deux énormes valises à caser, et une pile de devoirs à faire. Et je suis tellement fatiguée que j&#8217;ai décidé, pour la deuxième fois cette année (la première fois, c&#8217;était pendant les grèves de transport, quand j&#8217;étais malade et je savais que je n&#8217;étais plus capable d&#8217;aller à l&#8217;université a pied) de ne pas aller en cours demain matin. Le cours est à 8h30 et je ne crois pas que je pourrai me lever à 6h30 demain, donc j&#8217;ai demandé à une amie si elle pourrait me passer ses notes et envoyé un email au professeur pour m&#8217;excuser et lui expliquer la situation. Je vais me coucher tôt ce soir, dormir un peu tard demain, faire mes devoirs, puis aller à mon cours de 16h. Et avec un peu de chance j&#8217;arriverai à me lever à 7h30 mercredi &#8211; ce n&#8217;est pas comme si j&#8217;avais le choix de toute façon, il y a un quiz dans ce cours et je ne veux pas le manquer. Mais d&#8217;ici-là je devrais être à nouveau en forme.<br />
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<p><em>Darn. Utiliser un clavier QWERTZ après deux semaines sur un clavier QWERTY britannique est vraiment dur. Je n&#8217;arrête pas d&#8217;oublier où se trouvent les différents signes de ponctuation et je n&#8217;essaie tout simplement plus de faire les accents. Un truc sympa, par contre, c&#8217;est que l&#8217;écran de mon vieux Toshiba (c&#8217;est un écran 1024&#215;768 de 15 pouces) me semble vraiment grand après avoir utilisé l&#8217;Asus EEE tout le temps. Je ne regrette même pas le meilleur écran du Compal quand je suis sur Internet. Et c&#8217;est bon de retrouver la barre del.icio.us sur le côté sur Firefox. Ca me manquait vraiment sur l&#8217;Asus. Je suis sûre que j&#8217;aurais pu l&#8217;installer dessus aussi, mais je n&#8217;ai jamais trouvé le temps de le faire. </em></p>
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		<title>First Day in Burlington / Premiere journee a Burlington</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 01:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post was corrupted by excessive emotional reactions. The following elements have been salvaged: breakfast at hotel &#8211; walk to Champlain College &#8211; happy reunion &#8211; account of school visits &#8211; lunch &#8211; database presentation &#8211; more conversation &#8211; no news from Nick &#8211; walk downtown &#8211; bus ride &#8211; shopping &#8211; dinner &#8211; Annie.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>This post was corrupted by excessive emotional reactions. The following elements have been salvaged: breakfast at hotel &#8211; walk to Champlain College &#8211; happy reunion &#8211; account of school visits &#8211; lunch &#8211; database presentation &#8211; more conversation &#8211; no news from Nick &#8211; walk downtown &#8211; bus ride &#8211; shopping &#8211; dinner &#8211; Annie.</p>
<p><em>Cette entree a ete corrompue par des reactions excessivement emotives. Les elements suivants ont pu etre recuperes : petit dejeuner a l&#8217;hotel &#8211; marche jusqu&#8217;a Champlain College &#8211; joyeuses retrouvailles -  compte-rendu de visites d&#8217;ecoles &#8211; dejeuner &#8211; presentation de bases de donnes &#8211; autre conversations &#8211; pas de nouvelles de Nick &#8211; marche jusqu&#8217;au centre-ville -<br />
trajet en bus &#8211; shopping &#8211; diner &#8211; Annie.</em></p>
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		<title>Arrived in Burlington / Arrivee a Burlington</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 02:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trip all right. Didn&#8217;t get sick at all. Decided to stop trying to read my boring British Civilization textbook and read Fevre Dream instead. Love it and hate myself for not buying the Subterranean deluxe edition. Took forever to get my luggage in Burlington but did get it in the end. No TSA searches this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=great2008project.wordpress.com&blog=2509739&post=32&subd=great2008project&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Trip all right. Didn&#8217;t get sick at all. Decided to stop trying to read my boring British Civilization textbook and read <em>Fevre Dream</em> instead. Love it and hate myself for not buying the Subterranean deluxe edition. Took forever to get my luggage in Burlington but did get it in the end. No TSA searches this time. Annie all right. Hotel great. Bathtub! Internet access. Email from Carol about getting together on Friday. No news from Nick. A) Does he not want to see me or B) Is Guillaume the only guy who makes efforts for his friends when they come to see him? Considering only making female friends from now on.</p>
<p>Bath. Exhausted. Going to bed. Love to you all.</p>
<p>- &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; -</p>
<p><em>Voyage OK. Pas ete malade du tout. Ai decide d&#8217;arreter d&#8217;essayer de lire ennuyeux manuels d&#8217;histoire britannique et de lire </em>Fevre Dream<em> a la place. Adore le livre et me deteste de ne pas avoir achete l&#8217;edition de luxe de Subterranean. Ai attendu une eternite pour recuperer bagages a Burlington mais les ai recuperes en fin de compte. Pas de fouilles de la TSA cette fois. Annie OK. Hotel super. Baignoire ! Access Internet. Email de Carol a propos de notre sortie vendredi. Pas de nouvelles de Nick. A) Est-ce qu&#8217;il ne veut pas me voir ? ou B) Est-ce que Guillqume est le seul mec qui fasse des efforts pour ses amis  qui viennent le voir ? Considere ne me faire que des amies femmes a partir de maintenant.<br />
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<p><em>Bain. Epuisee. Vais me coucher. Bisous a tous.<br />
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		<title>Goodbye Bloomington / Au revoir Bloomington</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And hopefully everything will go well this time&#8230;
Et on espere que tout ira bien cette fois-ci&#8230;

I&#8217;m supposed to check out before noon, and the shuttle is at 1:20PM &#8211; fortunately the weather seems nice, so I think I&#8217;ll sit in the park before going to the shuttle stop. I recently found out that the &#8220;fancy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=great2008project.wordpress.com&blog=2509739&post=31&subd=great2008project&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>And hopefully everything will go well this time&#8230;</p>
<p><em>Et on espere que tout ira bien cette fois-ci&#8230;</em></p>
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<p>I&#8217;m supposed to check out before noon, and the shuttle is at 1:20PM &#8211; fortunately the weather seems nice, so I think I&#8217;ll sit in the park before going to the shuttle stop. I recently found out that the &#8220;fancy hotel&#8221; is actually right across the road from mine &#8211; but mine is hidden behind trees and that&#8217;s why I didn&#8217;t see it right away when I arrived. Now that I know that, though, it will be very easy and quick to walk to that hotel. I really took the long way on Saturday.</p>
<p>I very much hope that I won&#8217;t be sick or anything this time. I ate breakfast and I&#8217;ll try to buy something to eat at the airport too (I&#8217;ll be there quite early, as usual, so I&#8217;ll have time to eat). I try not to think too much about what happened the last time, just in case my body thought it was fun and decided to do it again.</p>
<p>I shouldn&#8217;t have talked about dangerous spiders with Laurence the other day &#8211; or, rather, I shouldn&#8217;t have read so many Wikipedia articles about the consequences of a bite from a dangerous spider. There&#8217;s something on one of my toes which could be a spider bite (definitely not a mosquito bite in any case, it&#8217;s still too cold here for mosquitoes) and since I discovered it this morning I&#8217;ve kept remembering some of the awful things I read about spider bites. Actually it&#8217;s probably something else (I can&#8217;t remember in which states these dangerous spiders were to be found and I certainly won&#8217;t check) but still, that really scared me when I realized my toe was hurting and when I saw what it looks like. I promise to tell you if my toe swells or turns a weird color. Hey, I&#8217;ll take pictures if it does. That is, if I&#8217;m still conscious when it happens.</p>
<p>It seems that my hotel in Burlington has a swimming-pool. I&#8217;m beginning to think that I&#8217;ll be out of my natural class there. I&#8217;ve been to one of those before (I&#8217;m not saying which hotel it is in case some maniac is reading this and decides to take advantage of the fact that I&#8217;m travelling alone) and it did not seem the kind of hotel where I usually would stay (what I mean is that it looked too fancy for me). Well at least the one where I stayed before had a bathtub, so this one&#8217;d better have one. I want to spend half an hour in a hot bath tonight after I arrive. At least.</p>
<p>Well, I guess I should start packing soon. I have to make sure this stupid suitcase can still be closed. Maybe I should listen to Caro and get a suitcase to replace my bag. Two suitcases wouldn&#8217;t be easy to carry though&#8230; and I should stop spending (although, given the exchange rate at the moment, I probably should keep buying everything I think I need, instead of buying it later in France where it will be more expensive) and start saving money to get a Mac when I start studying in the US (no, I don&#8217;t want to study in the US only for the special deals on Macs &#8211; but I would be really stupid not to take advantage of that) or to get one to comfort myself if I&#8217;m not admitted anywhere (just kidding &#8211; if I&#8217;m not admitted, I&#8217;ll just be depressed for three weeks, then get over it and try again the following year).</p>
<p>Sorry if this is a weird entry. I just checked LaptopSpirit and they said the Alienware Area-51 m17x was available &#8211; then I checked Alienware.com and it&#8217;s true, it is on the home page. I&#8217;m out of my mind with excitement, although I know full well that I&#8217;ll never see one of these, let alone own one. But I had stopped believing this laptop actually existed, and now it looks like it does exist (and can be ordered for a small fortune, too). Maybe I&#8217;ll start believing in true love again next. Maybe later today I will find out that Peter Jackson will direct the movie version of <em>Ender&#8217;s Game</em> or that George R.R. Martin has finished <em>A Dance with Dragons</em> or that there is a secret premiere of<em> Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull </em>at the Roxy in Burlington this weekend and that Nick has invitations for both of us. That gives you an idea of how little I believed that the m17x really existed (and no, I&#8217;m not sure that Peter Jackson would be the right director for Ender&#8217;s Game, but he sure would be better than Wolfgang Petersen in my opinion).</p>
<p>Right. Let&#8217;s get back into the real world. Suitcase.</p>
<p>- &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; -</p>
<p><em>Je suis censee rendre ma cle avant midi, et la navette est a 13h20 &#8211; heureusement il semble faire beau, donc je pense que je vais m&#8217;asseoir dans le parc avant d&#8217;aller a l&#8217;arret de la navette. J&#8217;ai decouvert recemment que l&#8217;&#8221;hotel chic&#8221; est en fait juste de l&#8217;autre cote de la route par rapport au mien &#8211; mais le mien est cache derriere des arbres et c&#8217;est pour ca que je ne l&#8217;ai pas vu en arrivant. Maintenant que je sais ca, par contre, ce sera vraiment facile et rapide d&#8217;aller jusqu&#8217;a cet hotel a pied. J&#8217;ai vraiment fait un long detour samedi.</em></p>
<p><em>J&#8217;espere vraiment que je ne serai pas malade ni rien cette fois. J&#8217;ai mange au petit-dejeuner et j&#8217;essaierai d&#8217;acheter quelque chose a manger a l&#8217;aeroport aussi (j&#8217;y serai en avance, comme toujours, donc j&#8217;aurai le temps de manger). J&#8217;essaie de ne pas trop penser a ce qui s&#8217;est passe la derniere fois, au cas ou mon corps penserait que c&#8217;etait marrant et deciderait de recommencer.</em></p>
<p><em>Je n&#8217;aurais pas du parler d&#8217;araignees dangereuses avec Laurence l&#8217;autre jour &#8211; ou, plutot, je n&#8217;aurais pas du lire autant d&#8217;articles sur Wikipedia a propos des consequences d&#8217;une piqure d&#8217;araignee dangereuse. J&#8217;ai quelque chose sur un de mes orteils qui pourrait etre une piqure d&#8217;araignee (en tout cas, definitivement pas une piqure de moustique, il fait encore trop froid ici pour les moustiques) et depuis que je l&#8217;ai decouvert ce matin je n&#8217;arrete pas de repenser a certaines de choses horribles que j&#8217;ai lues a propos des piqures d&#8217;araignees. En fait c&#8217;est probablement autre chose (je ne me souviens plus dans quels etats on pouvait trouver ces araignees dangereuses et je ne vais surement pas regarder) mais quand meme, j&#8217;ai vraiment eu peur quand j&#8217;ai realise que mon orteil me faisait mal et que j&#8217;ai vu a quoi il ressemblait. Je promets de vous le dire si l&#8217;orteil gonfle ou s&#8217;il prend une couleur bizarre. Hey, je prendrai des photos si ca arrive. Enfin, si je suis toujours consciente a ce moment-la.</em></p>
<p><em>Il semblerait que mon hotel a Burlington ait une piscine. Je commence a me dire que je vais etre en dehors de ma classe naturelle la-bas. J&#8217;ai deja dormi dans un de ces hotels (je ne vais pas dire lequel c&#8217;est juste au cas ou un cingle lirait ca et deciderait de profiter du fait que je voyage seule) et ca ne m&#8217;avait pas frappee comme le genre d&#8217;hotel ou je descendrais en temps ordinaire (ce que je veux dire, c&#8217;est qu&#8217;il avait l&#8217;air trop chic pour moi). Enfin, au moins celui-la avait une baignoire, donc celui-ci ferait mieux d&#8217;en avoir une. Je veux passer une demi-heure dans un bain chaud ce soir, une fois arrivee. Au moins.</em></p>
<p><em>Bon, je crois que je devrais commencer a ranger mes affaires. Il faut que je m&#8217;assure que cette stupide valise ferme toujours. Je devrais peut-etre ecouter Caro et acheter une valise pour remplacer mon sac. Deux valises ne seraient pas faciles a transporter, cela dit&#8230; et je devrais arreter de depenser (quoique, vu le taux de change, je ferais probablement mieux de continuer a acheter tout ce dont je pense avoir besoin, plutot que de l&#8217;acheter plus tard en France ou ca coutera plus cher) et commencer a economiser pour acheter un Mac quand je commencerai a etudier aux USA (non, je ne veux pas etudier aux USA juste a cause des offre speciales sur les Macs &#8211; mais je serais vraiment bete de ne pas en profiter) ou pour m&#8217;en acheter un pour me reconforter si je ne suis acceptee nulle part (je plaisante &#8211; si je ne suis pas acceptee, je deprimerai pendant trois semaines, puis je m&#8217;en remettrai et je reessaierai l&#8217;annee suivante).<br />
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<p><em>Desolee si cette entree est bizarre. Je viens d&#8217;aller voir LaptopSpirit et ils disaient que l&#8217;Alienware Area-51 m17x etait disponible &#8211; puis j&#8217;ai regarde sur Alienware.com et c&#8217;est vrai, il est sur la page d&#8217;accueil. Ca me rend completement folle, meme si je sais tres bien que je n&#8217;en verrai jamais un seul, et que je n&#8217;en aurai jamais non plus. Mais j&#8217;avais arrete de croire que cet ordinateur portable existait vraiment, et maintenant il semblerait qu&#8217;il existe bel et bien (et peut etre commande pour une petite fortune, aussi). Peut-etre que je vais recommencer a croire au grand amour maintenant. Peut-etre que plus tard dans la journee je vais decouvrir que Peter Jackson va realiser l&#8217;adaptation de </em>Ender&#8217;s Game<em> ou que George R.R. Martin a fini </em>A Dance with Dragons<em> ou qu&#8217;il y a une avant-premiere secrete de</em> Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull<em> au Roxy a Burlington ce weekend et que Nick a des invitations pour nous deux. Ca vous montre a quel point je doutais de l&#8217;existence du m17x (et non, je ne suis pas sure que Peter Jackson serait le realisateur ideal pour </em>Ender&#8217;s Game<em>, mais il serait surement mieux que Wolfgang Petersen a mon avis).</em></p>
<p><em>Okay. Retournons dans le monde reel. La valise.</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, that&#8217;s not a fire. That&#8217;s just me doing some ironing.
Non, il n&#8217;y a pas le feu. Je suis juste en train de faire du repassage.

I didn&#8217;t really know what to do today, since going to Indianapolis was too complicated &#8211; or rather, since I was too lazy, or too tired, to get up early [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=great2008project.wordpress.com&blog=2509739&post=30&subd=great2008project&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>No, that&#8217;s not a fire. That&#8217;s just me doing some ironing.</p>
<p><em>Non, il n&#8217;y a pas le feu. Je suis juste en train de faire du repassage.</em></p>
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<p>I didn&#8217;t really know what to do today, since going to Indianapolis was too complicated &#8211; or rather, since I was too lazy, or too tired, to get up early in the morning to go to Indianapolis. I looked at the city map and found there was a mall on the other side of the town. Well, I don&#8217;t have much room left in my luggage (I&#8217;ll try to ignore Caro&#8217;s suggestion that I could simply buy another suitcase&#8230; it&#8217;s tempting but not very reasonable), so shopping wasn&#8217;t really a good idea, but on the other hand I really wanted some Chinese food and if there&#8217;s one place where you can always find some, it&#8217;s a shopping mall&#8217;s food court (okay, it&#8217;s not great Chinese food, but I wasn&#8217;t feeling particularly fussy today).</p>
<p>The interesting thing about that mall, other than the fact that I knew there were bookstores there, was that it was completely on the other side of town, and not within walking distance of the campus by American standards (that means more than a mile away). So that meant a good long walk to get there and to come back (although I checked the bus map too, just in case I was too tired to walk back to the hotel), and it didn&#8217;t look as though it was going to rain, so there was no reason not to go. I made an easy-to-remember itinerary (down on College Avenue until 3rd Street, left on 3rd Street until there are enough stores around to tell it&#8217;s a mall), packed my things, hid Annie (I hide her in my suitcase every day, to try and preserve my image of independent European girl travelling alone in the US) and went.</p>
<p>It took about one hour and forty-five minutes to get there, and I arrived around noon. I wasn&#8217;t hungry yet, so I checked a few stores and ended up at Sears, where I found a nice linen shirt (on sale), a pretty t-shirt (sort of pink-orange, salmon-colored, well it&#8217;s very pretty) and a white sports jacket with a hood (the kind of thing I&#8217;ve wished I had every time it started raining here&#8230;). Oh, and earrings. Of course. There are always earrings involved at some point when I go shopping. And when it&#8217;s not earrings, it&#8217;s a necklace. But this time it was earrings.</p>
<p>After that I went to the food court, found the expected Chinese place and got some sesame chicken with fried rice. I sat to eat and rest a little. It was pretty quiet (it was 2:15, a little late for lunch I guess), except when at some point a woman fell in the stairs and hurt herself. When she cried out I first though she had been scared (I was sitting a little far away, other people who were closer hurried to help her), but she kept saying &#8220;oh my God&#8221; in a frightened and pained whisper, so I thought she had probably really hurt herself, or maybe broken something expensive she had bought as a present for someone. But after fifteen minutes two men with a stretcher came so I guess she had hurt herself really seriously. I hope she&#8217;ll be all right.</p>
<p>After that, I decided it was time to walk home. I was getting tired (I can&#8217;t tell how much I walked, but I think it was close to eight miles in all) but I made it back to the hotel. My feet hate me, though, I think. I&#8217;ve been using that cool peppermint cream that my Mom gave me back when I worked in a clothing store, and it helps, but they still hate me. I thought they knew now that I love walking. I showed them two years ago in San Francisco &#8211; but then it was the legs who rebelled, I remember it hurt so much I couldn&#8217;t sleep and nearly cried, but I had some special cream for that too, again thanks to my Mom, and I brought it with me this time too just in case.</p>
<p>Anyway, my new clothes were not looking really good after I got them out of my backpack, so I thought I might as well use this ironing board I saw in the closet (I love American hotels &#8211; who&#8217;d expect to find an ironing board and an iron in a hotel room?) and try to fix that. I first tried to set the board in the entrance of the room, near the closet, but the power sockets there don&#8217;t work, so I brought the board closer to the bed and plugged the iron into the socket in the base of the lamp. Then I put some music on the computer, filled a cup with water, and grabbed the iron to pour the water in&#8230; and then the fire alarm started ringing and flashing.</p>
<p>When you&#8217;ve spent eight months in a dorm where the fire alarm goes off every month or so for no reason at all, you get conditioned to react the right way. So I unplugged everything, grabbed my purse, hoped the fire wouldn&#8217;t destroy the rest of my stuff because my plane tickets were in the backpack, and walked out of the room.</p>
<p>Then I realized that no-one was walking towards the exits and that the alarm was, in fact, only ringing in my room.</p>
<p>Oops.</p>
<p>I tried to deal with it like an independent European girl who travels alone. I walked to the front desk and explained that the alarm had gone off in my room and I was a little worried because I had seen no fire. A guy said he&#8217;d take a look at that, opened my door (I had left my key inside, of course&#8230;) and when we came in, the alarm wasn&#8217;t ringing anymore. I showed him the ironing board and said that there had been no smoke or anything &#8211; not even steam, because I hadn&#8217;t poured any water yet. He looked up and said the board was just under the detectors (I explained I wanted to put it in the entrance, but the sockets didn&#8217;t work) and that maybe the detectors had been triggered by the iron, although it wasn&#8217;t really hot yet. So he suggested I move the board further away from the detectors, as far as the iron&#8217;s electrical cord would allow. Then he said that maybe the iron had an alarm of some kind, but I explained that I had seen a flashing light near the detectors and I had remembered the fire alarms in a dorm where I used to live. He seemed to understand then (maybe he had thought I was silly and couldn&#8217;t recognize a fire alarm, but the detail about the flashing light convinced him I had really heard an alarm) and said he&#8217;d be around and that I just needed to call the front desk if it happened again.</p>
<p>Then he left and I realized that Annie had been on the bed all that time. He certainly saw her. So much for the independent European girl travelling alone. Now it will be &#8220;the girl with the huge plush turtle who set the fire alarm off in her room while ironing her clothes&#8221;.</p>
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<p><em>Je ne savais pas vraiment quoi faire aujourd&#8217;hui, puisque c&#8217;etait trop complique d&#8217;aller a Indianapolis &#8211; ou, plutot, puisque j&#8217;etais trop paresseuse, ou trop fatiguee, pour me lever tot le matin pour aller a Indianapolis. J&#8217;ai regarde le plan de la ville et decouvert qu&#8217;il y avait un centre commercial de l&#8217;autre cote de la ville. Bon, je n&#8217;ai plus beaucoup de place dans mes bagages (je vais essayer d&#8217;ignorer la suggestion de Caro, que j&#8217;achete tout simplement une autre valise&#8230; c&#8217;est tentant mais pas tres raisonnable), donc le shopping n&#8217;etait pas vraiment une bonne idee, mais d&#8217;un autre cote je voulais vraiment manger chinois et s&#8217;il y a un endroit ou on peut toujours en trouver, c&#8217;est l&#8217;espace restauration d&#8217;un centre commercial (okay, c&#8217;est pas de la super cuisine chinoise, mais je n&#8217;etais pas d&#8217;humeur a chipoter aujourd&#8217;hui).</em></p>
<p><em>Ce qui etait interessant avec ce centre commercial, outre le fait que je savais qu&#8217;il y avait des librairies la-bas, c&#8217;etait qu&#8217;il etait completement de l&#8217;autre cote de la ville, et trop loin du campus pour y aller a pied selon les standards americains (ca veut dire plus d&#8217;un mile). Donc ca impliquait une bonne marche pour y aller et pour revenir (meme si j&#8217;ai aussi regarde les itineraires de bus, juste au cas ou je serais trop fatiguee pour rentrer a pied a l&#8217;hotel), et il n&#8217;avait pas l&#8217;air de devoir pleuvoir, donc il n&#8217;y avait pas de raison de ne pas y aller. J&#8217;ai fait un itineraire facile a retenir (descendre College Avenue jusqu&#8217;a 3rd Street, a gauche sur 3rd Street jusqu&#8217;a ce qu&#8217;il y ait assez de magasins dans le coin pour pouvoir appeler ca un centre commercial), boucle mon sac, cache Annie (je la cache dans ma valise tous les jours, histoire de preserver mon image de jeune Europeene independante qui voyage toute seule aux USA) et j&#8217;y suis allee.</em></p>
<p><em>Ca m&#8217;a pris environ 1h45 pour y aller, et je suis arrivee vers midi. Je n&#8217;avais pas encore faim, donc je suis allee regarder les magasins et pour finir je suis allee chez Sear, ou j&#8217;ai trouve une chemise en lin sympa (et en promotion), un joli t-shirt (genre rose-orange, saumon, enfin il est tres joli) et une veste de survetement blanche a capuche (le genre de chose que j&#8217;ai regrette de ne pas avoir a chaque fois qu&#8217;il s&#8217;est mis a pleuvoir ici&#8230;). Oh, et des boucles d&#8217;oreilles. Bien sur. A chaque fois que je fais du shopping, il y a  des boucles d&#8217;oreilles dans l&#8217;histoire. Et quand ce ne sont pas des boucles d&#8217;oreille, c&#8217;est un collier. Mais cette fois-ci c&#8217;etaient des boucles d&#8217;oreille.</em></p>
<p><em>Apres ca je suis allee a l&#8217;espace restauration, j&#8217;ai trouve le Chinois et ai pris du poulet au sesame avec du riz. Je me suis assise pour manger et me reposer un peu. C&#8217;etait tres calme (il etait 14h15, un peu tard pour le dejeuner je suppose), sauf a un moment, quand une dame est tombee dans les marches et s&#8217;est fait mal. Quand elle a crie j&#8217;ai d&#8217;abord pense qu&#8217;elle avait eu peur (j&#8217;etais assise un peu loin, d&#8217;autres personnes qui etaient plus pres se sont precipitees pour l&#8217;aider) mais elle n&#8217;arretait pas de repeter &#8220;oh mon Dieu&#8221; sur un ton effraye, donc j&#8217;ai pense qu&#8217;elle avait du se faire vraiment mal, ou peut-etre casser quelque chose de tres cher qu&#8217;elle avait achete pour faire un cadeau a quelqu&#8217;un. Mais au bout d&#8217;un quart d&#8217;heure deux hommes sont arrives avec une civiere, donc je suppose qu&#8217;elle s&#8217;etait blessee assez gravement. J&#8217;espere que ca va aller pour elle.<br />
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<p><em>Apres ca, j&#8217;ai decide qu&#8217;il etait temps de rentrer. Je commencais a fatiguer (je ne sais pas combien j&#8217;ai marche, mais je crois qu&#8217;en tout ca doit faire pres de 12 km) mais j&#8217;ai reussi a retourner a l&#8217;hotel. Mes pieds me detestent, cela dit, enfin je crois. Je me sers de cette creme a la menthe poivree que ma Mamounette m&#8217;avait donnee quand je travaillais dans un magasin de vetements, et ca aide, mais ils me detestent quand meme. Je pensais qu&#8217;ils sauraient maintenant que j&#8217;aime marcher. Je le leur ai montre il y a deux ans a San Francisco &#8211; mais a ce moment-la c&#8217;etaient les jambes qui s&#8217;etaient rebellees, je me souviens que ca faisait tellement mal que je ne pouvais pas dormir et j&#8217;en avais presque pleure, mais j&#8217;avais une creme speciale pour ca aussi, a nouveau grace a ma Mamounette, et je l&#8217;ai prise aussi, juste au cas ou.<br />
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<p><em>Enfin bref. Mes nouveaux vetements n&#8217;avaient pas tres belle allure quand je les ai sortis de mon sac a dos, donc je me suis dit que je pourrais utiliser la planche a repasser que j&#8217;avais vue dans le placard (j&#8217;adore les hotels americains &#8211; qui s&#8217;attendrait a trouver une planche et un fer a repasser dans une chambre d&#8217;hotel ?) pour essayer d&#8217;arranger ca. J&#8217;ai d&#8217;abord essaye de l&#8217;installer a l&#8217;entree de la chambre, pres du placard, mais les prises de courant ne marchaient pas, donc j&#8217;ai rapproche la planche du lit et branche le fer dans la prise a la base de la lampe de chevet. Puis j&#8217;ai mis de la musique sur l&#8217;ordinateur, rempli un verre d&#8217;eau, et attrape le fer pour y verser l&#8217;eau&#8230; et alors l&#8217;alarme anti-incendie s&#8217;est mise a sonner et a clignoter.</em></p>
<p><em>Quand vous avez passe huit mois dans une residence universitaire ou l&#8217;alarme anti-incendie se declenche tous les mois ou presque sans raison, ca vous conditionne a reagir comme il faut. Donc j&#8217;ai tout debranche, attrape mon sac, espere que le feu ne detruirait pas le reste de mes affaires parce que les billets d&#8217;avion etaient dans le sac a dos, et je suis sortie de ma chambre.<br />
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<p><em>Et j&#8217;ai realise que personne ne se dirigeait vers les issues de secours et que l&#8217;alarme, en fait, ne sonnait que dans ma chambre.</em></p>
<p><em>Oups.</em></p>
<p><em>J&#8217;ai essaye de gerer la situation comme une jeune Europeene independante qui voyage seule. Je suis allee a la reception et j&#8217;ai explique que l&#8217;alarme s&#8217;etait declenchee dans ma chambre et que j&#8217;etais un peu inquiete parce que je n&#8217;avais pas vu de feu. Un gus a dit qu&#8217;il allait voir ca, a ouvert ma porte (j&#8217;avais laisse les cles a l&#8217;interieur, evidemment&#8230;) et quand nous sommes rentres, l&#8217;alarme ne sonnait plus. Je lui ai montre la planche a repasser et ai dit qu&#8217;il n&#8217;y avait pas eu de fumee ni rien &#8211; pas meme de vapeur, parce que je n&#8217;avais pas encore verse d&#8217;eau. Il a leve la ete et a dit que la planche etait juste sous les detecteurs (j&#8217;ai explique que je voulais la mettre a l&#8217;entree, mais les prises ne marchaient pas) et que peut-etre que les detecteurs avaient reagi au fer a repasser, meme s&#8217;il n&#8217;etait pas vraiment chaud encore. Donc il a suggere que j&#8217;eloigne la planche des detecteurs, aussi loin que le permettrait le fil du fer. Puis il a dit que peut-etre c&#8217;etait le fer qui avait une alarme ou quelque chose, mais j&#8217;ai explique que j&#8217;avais vu une lumiere clignoter pres des detecteurs et que je m&#8217;etais souvenue de l&#8217;alarme anti-incendie dans une residence universitaire ou j&#8217;avais habite. La, il a eu l&#8217;air de comprendre (peut-etre qu&#8217;il m&#8217;a prise pour une idiote qui n&#8217;etait pas capable de reconnaitre une alarme anti-incendie, mais le detail de la lumiere qui clignote l&#8217;a convaincu que j&#8217;avais vraiment entendu une alarme) et il a dit qu&#8217;il serait dans le coin et que j&#8217;avais juste a appeler la reception si ca se reproduisait. </em></p>
<p><em>Puis il est parti et j&#8217;ai realise que Annie etait sur le lit pendant tout ce temps-la. Il l&#8217;a surement vue. C&#8217;est foutu pour la jeune Europeene independante qui voyage seule. Maintenant ce sera &#8220;la fille avec la tortue en peluche gigantesque qui a declenche l&#8217;alarme a incendie en faisant du repassage.&#8221;<br />
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Puisque j&#8217;ai passe la premiere journee au lit&#8230;

I always knew I would love Indiana University. I loved it from the moment I first looked at the website, just like it happened with Champlain College a few years ago. I planned to stay three days in Bloomington instead of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=great2008project.wordpress.com&blog=2509739&post=28&subd=great2008project&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Since I spent the first day in bed&#8230;</p>
<p><em>Puisque j&#8217;ai passe la premiere journee au lit&#8230;</em></p>
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<p>I always knew I would love Indiana University. I loved it from the moment I first looked at the website, just like it happened with Champlain College a few years ago. I planned to stay three days in Bloomington instead of two because I knew I would want to explore the town in detail &#8211; that there would be quite a large chance that I would come back there.</p>
<p>Well, I do love it. The campus is rather large, but it doesn&#8217;t feel as overwhelming as the University of Illinois; I didn&#8217;t feel lost, I didn&#8217;t feel that I didn&#8217;t belong there. It is more beautiful (they seem to use that argument quite a lot here, but I can&#8217;t blame them for it); there are trees and lawns and woods, flowers everywhere&#8230; It doesn&#8217;t feel as urban as Champaign. It reminded me of Burlington, in a way, maybe because many offices (like the Admissions Office where I was this afternoon) are located in former houses &#8211; most of the buildings on the campus of the University of Illinois were huge. This being said, there are many huge and new buildings in Bloomington too, and they do look rather impressive as well.</p>
<p>And don&#8217;t tell me that I&#8217;m favorably impressed this time because the weather was nice this morning and the trees were in bloom and so on. Well, all right, it was really beautiful this morning when the sun was shining, but it rained this afternoon too (I didn&#8217;t pick the right time for these visits, I&#8217;m afraid; I got soaked again today).</p>
<p>This morning, I met with someone at the School of Library and Information Science&#8217;s admissions service. She was very welcoming and very reassuring (especially about the application process; I told her at some point that it looked rather overwhelming and she went through various points of it with me to show me there was nothing to worry about). She didn&#8217;t have the answer to all my questions, but she tried to find them; she called the International Services to ask them if I would be able to work after graduating, and later she told me how I could get some of my other questions answered,</p>
<p>She took me on a tour of the building and introduced me to several people, including the dean (I hadn&#8217;t expected that at all), a professor and a student. After the meeting was over, she actually asked that student if she could show me some more things and talk about the program with me, which was very helpful. The meeting lasted no more than 45 minutes but then I talked for at least one hour with that current student. I had not expected to be able to talk to a student and I was glad things turned out that way.</p>
<p>After that, I went for a walk and tried to explore the campus and the neighborhood a little. I found a post office and bought stamps (&#8216;m going to send these cards, don&#8217;t worry, but anyway what&#8217;s the point, you&#8217;ll get them after I&#8217;ve come home), then sat in the woods for a while. I saw a chipmunk and several squirrels (now that I&#8217;ve seen that exhibit at the museum in Ann Arbor, I can make the difference between the two) and a pretty red bird (I don&#8217;t know what it was, but it was really pretty &#8211; I tried to take a picture of it but I was too far away and I didn&#8217;t want to come closer and frighten it).</p>
<p>It started raining while I was trying to take a picture of the chipmunk (I was too far again &#8211; stupid camera) so I tried to find a building where I could wait for the rain to end. But it didn&#8217;t really stop raining.</p>
<p>The appointment at the International Admissions went well, but wasn&#8217;t very helpful. We went through the application process, but the person I talked to couldn&#8217;t answer most of my questions. Most of the time he said &#8220;you&#8217;ll need to see this with the School of Library and Information Science, they decide&#8221; so I was glad that the person I had seen in the morning had been so helpful and had encouraged me to email her or come see her if I had more questions.</p>
<p>That meeting didn&#8217;t last long and when I came out of the building it was still raining. I had planned to go to the bus terminal and get a schedule to maybe go to the mall and see if I could catch a movie there, but that rain depressed me and I decided to go back to the hotel instead. I was soaked by the time I got there, of course. It was still early (not yet 3:30PM) but I wanted to do some more reading for my British Civilization book and maybe start a table to compare the different schools so that I can choose better which ones I should apply to. I know I want to apply to the University of Michigan and to Indiana University but I don&#8217;t think I should apply to only there two. Maybe I should apply to the University of Illinois too although I don&#8217;t like it much, maybe I would get used to it and really enjoy it after a while. And I should consider other schools too, even though I haven&#8217;t visited them.</p>
<p>I think I&#8217;ll try to go to the mall and to the movies tomorrow &#8211; I can probably find a bus schedule on the Internet. Going to Indianapolis is too complicated, the only way (since I don&#8217;t have a car) is to take the shuttle to the airport, and take a bus from there to go downtown. Indianapolis is certainly an interesting city but I don&#8217;t want to go through that much trouble tomorrow. I&#8217;m still not feeling great (I&#8217;m much better, though) and I think I should take it easy from now on. I want to be in top form to see my friends in Burlington and I need to be in top form for my last weeks of class too &#8211; these grades are going to be used for my application, after all. I can&#8217;t fail now.</p>
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<p><em>J&#8217;ai toujours su que j&#8217;aimerais l&#8217;Universite de l&#8217;Indiana. Elle m&#8217;a plu des que j&#8217;ai regarde le site web pour la premiere fois, et ca c&#8217;etait passe exactement de la meme facon avec Champlain College il y a quelques annes. J&#8217;ai prevu de passer trois jours a Bloomington au lieu de deux parce que je savais que je voudrais explorer la ville &#8211; qu&#8217;il y avait de fortes chances que j&#8217;y revienne.<br />
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<p><em>Eh bien, oui, je l&#8217;aime. Le campus est assez grand, mais il ne semble pas aussi impressionnant que celui de l&#8217;Universite de l&#8217;Illinois ; je ne me suis pas sentie perdue, je n&#8217;ai pas eu cette impression de ne pas etre a ma place. Le campus est plus beau (ils semblent beaucoup utiliser cet argument ici, mais je ne peux pas leur en vouloir) ; il y a des arbres et des pelouses et des bois, des fleurs partout&#8230; Ca ne semble pas aussi urbain que Champaign. Ca m&#8217;a rappele Burlington, d&#8217;une certaine facon, peut-etre parce que beaucoup de services (comme le service des admissions ou j&#8217;etais cet apres-midi) se trouvent dans d&#8217;anciennes maisons &#8211; la plupart des batiments sur le campus de l&#8217;Universite de l&#8217;Illinois etaient enormes. Cela dit, il y a beaucoup de batiments enormes et recents a Bloomington aussi, et ils sont assez impressionnants aussi.</em></p>
<p><em>Et ne me dites pas que j&#8217;ai ete impressionnee de facon favorable cette fois-ci parce que le temps etait agreable et que les arbres etaient en fleurs et tout ca. Bon, d&#8217;accord, c&#8217;etait vraiment beau ce matin quand le soleil brillait, mais il a plu cet apres=midi aussi (je n&#8217;ai pas choici le bon moment pour faire ces visites, j&#8217;en ai peur ; j&#8217;ai ete trempee encore une fois aujourd&#8217;hui).</em></p>
<p><em>Ce matin, j&#8217;ai rencontre quelqu&#8217;un qui travaille au service des admissions de l&#8217;Ecole des Sciences des Bibliotheques et de l&#8217;Information. Elle etait tres accueillante et tres rassurante (surtout en ce qui concerne les candidatures ; je lui ai dit a un moment que cela semblait assez impressionnant et elle a examine certains points avec moi pour me montrer qu&#8217;il n&#8217;y avait pas de quoi s&#8217;inquieter). Elle n&#8217;avait pas les reponses a toutes mes questions, mais elle a essaye de les trouver ; elle appele les Services Internationaux pour leur demander si je pourrais travailler apres avoir obtenu mon diplome, et ensuite elle m&#8217;a dit comment je pourrais obtenir des reponses a certaines de mes autres questions.<br />
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<p><em>Elle m&#8217;a fait visiter le batiment et m&#8217;a presente plusieurs personnes, dont le doyen (je ne m&#8217;attendais pas a ca), un professeur et une etudiante. Une fois l&#8217;entretien termine, elle a meme demande a cette etudiante si elle pouvait me montrer d&#8217;autres choses et discuter avec moi, ce qui a ete tres utile. L&#8217;entretien a dure moins de 45 minutes mais ensuite j&#8217;ai parle pendant au moins une heure avec cette etudiante. Je ne pensais pas pouvoir parler a un(e) etudiant(e) et j&#8217;etais contente que ca se soit arrange comme ca.</em></p>
<p><em>Apres ca, je suis allee faire un tour a pied et j&#8217;ai essaye d&#8217;explorer un peu le campus  et le voisinage. J&#8217;ai trouve un bureau de poste et achete des timbres (je vais les envoyer, ces cartes, ne vous en faites pas, mais de toute facon quel est l&#8217;interet, vous les recevrez apres que je sois rentree) puis je me suis assise dans les bois pendant un moment. J&#8217;ai vu un chipmunk et plusieurs ecureuils (maintenant que j&#8217;ai vu cette expo au musee d&#8217;Ann Arbor, je sais faire la difference entre les deux) et un joli oiseau rouge (je ne sais pas ce que c&#8217;etait, mais il etait vraiment joli &#8211; j&#8217;ai essaye de le prendre en photo mais j&#8217;etais trop loin et je ne voulais pas m&#8217;approcher et lui faire peur).<br />
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<p><em>Il s&#8217;est mis a pleuvoir pendant que j&#8217;essayais de prendre une photo du chipmunk (j&#8217;etais trop loin aussi -stupide appareil photo) donc j&#8217;ai essaye de trouver un batiment ou m&#8217;abriter en attendant qu&#8217;il s&#8217;arrete de pleuvoir. Mais il n&#8217;a pas vraiment arrete de pleuvoir&#8230;<br />
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<p><em>Le rendez-vous aux Admissions Internationales s&#8217;est bien passe, mais n&#8217;a pas ete tres utile. Nous avons parle du processus de candidature, mais la personne a qui j&#8217;ai parle ne pouvait pas repondre a la plupart de mes questions. La plupart du temps il disait &#8220;il faudra voir ca avec l&#8217;Ecole de Bibliotheconomie et des Sciences de l&#8217;Infomation, ce sont eux qui decident&#8221; donc j&#8217;etais contente que la personne que j&#8217;avais vue le matin ait ete aussi sympa et m&#8217;ait encouragee a lui ecrire ou a retourner la voir si j&#8217;avais d&#8217;autres questions.</em></p>
<p><em>Ce rendez-vous n&#8217;a pas dure longtemps et quand je suis sortie du batiment il pleuvait toujours. J&#8217;avais prevu d&#8217;aller au terminal de bus et de prendre les horaires pour aller au centre commercial et peut-etre aller voir un film, mais cette pluie m&#8217;a deprimee et j&#8217;ai decide de rentrer a l&#8217;hotel plutot. J&#8217;etais trempee quand j&#8217;y suis arrivee, evidemment. Il etait encore tot (meme pas 15h30) mais je voulais lire un peu de civilisation britannique et peut-etre commencer un table pour comparer les differentes ecoles afin de mieux choisir celles ou je devrais envoyer ma candidature. Je sais que je veux essayer d&#8217;entrer a l&#8217;Universite du Michigan et a l&#8217;Universite de l&#8217;Indiana mais je ne pense pas que je devrais envoyer de candidature seulement a celles-la. Peut-etre que je devrais esayer l&#8217;Universite de l&#8217;Illinois aussi meme si elle ne me plait pas vraiment, peut-etre que je m&#8217;y habituerais et que je m&#8217;y plairais au bout d&#8217;un moment. Et je devrais penser aux autres ecoles aussi, meme si je ne les ai pas visitees.</em></p>
<p><em>Je pense que j&#8217;essaierai d&#8217;aller au centre commercial et au cinema demain &#8211; je peux probablement trouver des horaires de bus sur Internet. C&#8217;est trop complique pour aller a Indianapolis, la seule facon (puisque je n&#8217;ai pas de voiture) c&#8217;est de prendre la navette jusqu&#8217;a l&#8217;aeroport, puis une fois la-bas de prendre un bus pour aller en ville. Indianapolis est certainement une viille interessante mais je ne veux pas me prendre la tete avec tout ca demain. Je ne suis toujours pas en grande forme (je vais beaucoup mieux, quand meme) et je pense que je devrais y aller doucement maintenant. Je veux etre en forme pour voir mes amis a Burlington et je dois etre en forme pour mes dernieres semaines de cours &#8211; ces notes vont compter pour ma candidature, apres tout. Je ne peux pas echouer maintenant.</em></p>
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Juste une liste de chansons dans ma liste de lecture du moment.

&#8220;This Time Tomorrow&#8221; &#8211; The Kinks (original soundtrack of The Darjeeling Limited)
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<p><em>Juste une liste de chansons dans ma liste de lecture du moment.</em></p>
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<p><strong>&#8220;This Time Tomorrow&#8221; &#8211; The Kinks (original soundtrack of <em>The Darjeeling Limited</em>)</strong></p>
<p>I found out on the first flight that it is indeed a song about travelling (it starts with a recording of a plane taking off and everything). And it&#8217;s a cool song anyway.</p>
<p><em>J&#8217;ai decouvert pendant mon premier vol que c&#8217;est bel et bien une chanson qui parle de voyages (elle commence par un enregistrement d&#8217;un avion qui decolle et tout).  Et de toute facon elle est cool.</em></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Charity Case&#8221; &#8211; Gnarls Barkley (<em>The Odd Couple</em>)</strong></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;She Knows&#8221; &#8211; Gnarls Barkley (<em>The Odd Couple</em>)</strong></p>
<p>I bought the album on the iTunes Store before leaving and I haven&#8217;t had the time to listen to it more than once, but these are my two favorite songs for now. My favorite songs from the album <em>St. Elsewhere</em> are &#8220;Crazy&#8221; (because I often feel so confused&#8230;), &#8220;Gone Daddy Gone&#8221; (especially since Scott Lynch made an allusion to it on his LiveJournal &#8211; but it had always been a good song of course) and &#8220;Transformer&#8221;.</p>
<p><em>J&#8217;ai achete l&#8217;album sur le iTunes Store avant de partir et je n&#8217;ai pas eu le temps de l&#8217;ecouter plus d&#8217;une fois, mais ce sont mes deux chansons preferees pour l&#8217;instant. Mes chansons preferees sur l&#8217;abum </em>St. Elsewhere <em>:</em> <em>&#8220;Crazy&#8221; (parce que je me sens souvent perdue&#8230;), &#8220;Gone Daddy Gone&#8221; (surtout depuis Scott Lynch y a fait allusion sur son LiveJournal &#8211; mais bien sur c&#8217;etait une bonne chanson depuis le debut) et &#8220;Transformer&#8221;.</em></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Mushaboom&#8221; &#8211; Feist (<em>Let It Die</em>)</strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve loved Feist ever since I first heard her music (thank you Laurence for telling me about her!) and this may not be my favorite song but it goes well with the other songs in the playlist. I also love &#8220;Secret Heart&#8221;, &#8220;Leisure Suite&#8221; and &#8220;Inside and Out&#8221; from the same album, and &#8220;My Moon My Man&#8221;, &#8220;I Feel It All&#8221;, and &#8220;1234&#8243; from <em>The Reminder</em>.</p>
<p><em>J&#8217;adore Feist depuis que j&#8217;ai entendu sa musique pour la premiere fois (merci Laurence de m&#8217;avoir parle d&#8217;elle !) et ceci n&#8217;est peut-etre pas ma chanson preferee, mais elle va bien avec les autres chansons de la liste de lecture. J&#8217;adore aussi &#8220;Secret Heart&#8221;, &#8220;Leisure Suite&#8221; et &#8220;Inside and Out&#8221; sur le meme album, et &#8220;My Moon My Man&#8221;, &#8220;I Feel It All&#8221; et &#8220;1234&#8243; sur </em>The Reminder.</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Narc&#8221; &#8211; Interpol (<em>Antics</em>)</strong></p>
<p>Another musical discovery that I owe to Laurence. I only have this album and this is my favorite song on it.</p>
<p><em>Une autre decouverte musicale que je dois a Laurence. J&#8217;ai seulement cet album et c&#8217;est ma chanson preferee.</em></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Leaving Today&#8221; &#8211; The Coral (<em>Invisible Invasion</em>)</strong></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;In the Morning&#8221; &#8211; The Coral (<em>Invisible Invasion</em></strong>)</p>
<p>I think I first head The Coral on the radio, but I can&#8217;t remember which song it was, I just know it was from this album. These are my two favorite songs and the lyrics are pretty appropriate: &#8220;Shut the bedroom window in the morning / Go to the shop, make plans to be leaving / In the morning&#8221; (&#8220;In the Morning&#8221;) and &#8220;I&#8217;m leaving today / Too much time&#8217;s already wasted / I know I can&#8217;t stay / So I&#8217;ve made my reservations&#8221; (&#8220;Leaving Today&#8221;). &#8220;Leaving Today&#8221; is mostly about leaving a place where one hasn&#8217;t been happy, I think, but I&#8217;m travelling so much these days that I can very often tell myself that I&#8217;m &#8220;leaving today&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p><em>Je crois que j&#8217;ai entendu The Coral pour la premiere fois a la radio, mais je ne me souviens pas quelle chanson c&#8217;etait, juste que c&#8217;etait sur cet album. Ce sont mes deux chansons preferees et les paroles sont assez appropriees : &#8220;Shut the bedroom window in the morning / Go to the shop, make plans to be leaving / In the morning&#8221; </em>[Ferme la porte de la chambre le matin / Va au magasin, prepare-toi a partir / Dans la matinee] <em>(&#8220;In the Morning&#8221;) and &#8220;I&#8217;m leaving today / Too much time&#8217;s already wasted / I know I can&#8217;t stay / So I&#8217;ve made my reservations&#8221; </em>[Je m'en vais aujourd'hui / Trop de temps a ete perdu / Je sais que je ne peux pas rester / Alors j'ai fait des reservations] <em>(&#8220;Leaving Today&#8221;). &#8220;Leaving Today&#8221; parle surtout de quitter un endroit ou on n&#8217;a pas ete heureux, je crois, mais je voyage tellement ces jours-ci que je peux tres souvent me dire que je &#8220;pars aujourd&#8217;hui&#8221;&#8230;</em></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Good Distance&#8221; <em>- </em>Northern State (<em>Can I Keep This Pen?</em>)</strong></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Oooh Girl&#8221; <em>- </em>Northern State (<em>Can I Keep This Pen?</em>)</strong></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Better Already&#8221; <em>- </em>Northern State (<em>Can I Keep This Pen?</em>)</strong></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Mother May I?&#8221; <em>- </em>Northern State (<em>Can I Keep This Pen?</em>)</strong></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Things I&#8217;ll Do&#8221; <em>- </em>Northern State (<em>Can I Keep This Pen?</em>)</strong></p>
<p>I listened to some Northern State songs when I found out they were the opening act of Tegan and Sara&#8217;s European tour. I really liked their music at the concert so I bought the last album and I actually regret not buying the official t-shirt. &#8220;Good Distance&#8221; is, I think, about people who work so hard that they don&#8217;t enjoy life anymore; I love the beginning of the song (&#8220;And if you want it, you got it / Whatever you want&#8221;) and the way they sing the chorus (&#8220;We work so hard to get it done / And then you get it done and what&#8217;s the point in that? / &#8217;cause when you work so hard you have no fun / And then you have no fun and what&#8217;s the point in that?&#8221;).</p>
<p>&#8220;Oooh Girl&#8221; is&#8230; I don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s about, I just like the lyrics, especially the beginning: &#8220;Winners never quit / Quitters never win&#8221; (that should be my motto), the &#8220;Knock knock, who&#8217;s there? Prym how have you been? / Do you still have my copy of <em>Huckleberry Finn</em>?&#8221; part (I would probably greet an old friend the exact same way if she had my copy of that book), and the &#8220;Oh I&#8217;m sorry, can I keep this pen?&#8221; part because it doesn&#8217;t seem to make sense. I can&#8217;t figure out what the song is about, but I like it.</p>
<p>&#8220;Better Already&#8221;&#8230;  I don&#8217;t know. I just like it.</p>
<p>&#8220;Mother May I&#8221; reminds me of that song by the Andrews Sisters, &#8220;Yes My Darling Daughter&#8221;, where the daughter is about to go out for the first time and asks her mother whether it is appropriate for her to dance with a man and to let him kiss her and so on (and the mother always answers &#8220;yes my darling daughter&#8221; &#8211; I just love supporting mothers). This song is not about that at all, but the chorus is indeed &#8220;Mother may I? / Yes you may!&#8221;. I love the beginning: &#8220;Allow myself to introduce myself / I&#8217;m Hesta Prym, let me begin / I love my coffee with lots of gin&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;Things I&#8217;ll Do&#8221; is probably about all the things a girl is willing to do as part of her job, or maybe about all she would do for a friend, I can&#8217;t tell which. I like the way she lists things: &#8220;Then I&#8217;ll cut your hair / And then I&#8217;ll clean your place&#8221;, &#8220;I&#8217;ll save your seat / I&#8217;ll pour your whisky neat / I&#8217;ll make you eat your greens / And do everything in between / Call me anytime / I&#8217;ll manage your damage / I&#8217;ll balance your budget / And make you a sandwich&#8221; and &#8220;Do your chart, do your math, and your laundry too / And these are just some of the things I&#8217;ll do&#8221;.</p>
<p><em>J&#8217;ai ecoute quelques-unes des chansons de Northern State quand j&#8217;ai appris qu&#8217;elles faisaient la premier partie de Tegan and Sara pendant leur tournee en Europe. J&#8217;ai vraiment aime leur musique au concert donc j&#8217;ai achete le dernier album et je regrette de ne pas avoir achete leur t-shirt. “Good Distance” parle, je crois, des gens qui travaillent si dur qu&#8217;ils ne profitent plus de la vie ; j&#8217;adore le debut de la chanson (&#8220;And if you want it, you got it / Whatever you want&#8221; </em><span style="font-style:normal;">[Et si tu le veux, tu l'obtiens / Tout ce que tu veux, peu importe ce que c'est]</span><em>) et la facon dont elles chantent le refrain (&#8220;We work so hard to get it done / And then you get it done and what&#8217;s the point in that? / &#8217;cause when you work so hard you have no fun / And then you have no fun and what&#8217;s the point in that?&#8221; </em><span style="font-style:normal;">[On travaille si dur pour que ca soit fait / Et ensuite c'est fait, et quel est l'interet ? / Parce que quand on travaille si dur on ne s'amuse pas / Et si on ne s'amuse pas, quel est l'interet ?])</span><em>. </em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;Oooh Girl&#8221; est&#8230; je ne sais pas de quoi elle parle, j&#8217;aime juste les paroles, surtout le debut,  &#8220;Winners never quit / Quitters never win&#8221; </em><span style="font-style:normal;">[Ceux qui gagnent n'abandonnent pas / Ceux qui abandonnent ne gagnent pas]</span><em> (je devrais en faire ma devise), toute la partie &#8220;Knock knock, who&#8217;s there? Prym how have you been? / Do you still have my copy of Huckleberry Finn?&#8221; </em><span style="font-style:normal;">[Toc toc, qui est la? Prym comment ca va ? / As-tu toujours mon Huckleberry Finn ? ] </span><em>(c&#8217;est probablement comme ca que je parlerais a une vieille connaissance si elle avait mon exemplaire de ce bouquin), et la partie &#8220;Oh I&#8217;m sorry, can I keep this pen?&#8221; </em><span style="font-style:normal;">[Oh, desolee, je peux garder le stylo ?] </span><em>parce que ca n&#8217;a pas de sens. Je n&#8217;arrive pas a comprendre de quoi parle la chanson, mais je l&#8217;aime bien. </em></p>
<p>“<em>Better Already”&#8230; J&#8217;en sais rien. Je l&#8217;aime bien, c&#8217;est tout.</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;Mother May I&#8221; me fait penser a la chanson des Andrews Sisters, &#8220;Yes My Darling Daughter&#8221;, ou la fille s&#8217;apprete a sortir pour la premiere fois et demande a sa mere si c&#8217;est convenable pour elle de danser avec un homme et de le laisser l&#8217;embrasser et ainsi de suite (et la mere repond toujours “oui, ma cherie” &#8211; j&#8217;adore les meres qui vous soutiennent comme ca). La chanson ne parle pas de ca du tout, mais le refrain est effectivement “Mother may I? / Yes you may!” </em><span style="font-style:normal;">[Maman, tu permets ? / Oui tu peux !]</span><em>. J&#8217;adore le debut : &#8220;Allow myself to introduce myself / I&#8217;m Hesta Prym, let me begin / I love my coffee with lots of gin&#8221; </em><span style="font-style:normal;">[Permettez-moi de me presenter / Je suis Hesta Prym, et pour commencer / J'adore mon cafe avec plein de gin]. </span></p>
<p>“<em>Things I&#8217;ll Do” parle probablement de toutes les choses qu&#8217;une fille est prete a faire dans son travail, ou peut-etre de tout ce qu&#8217;elle ferait pour une amie, je ne peux pas decider lequel des deux. J&#8217;aime la facon dont elle enumere les differentes choses : &#8220;Then I&#8217;ll cut your hair / And then I&#8217;ll clean your place&#8221; </em><span style="font-style:normal;">[Puis je te couperai les cheveux / Et apres je nettoierai ton appart]</span><em>, &#8220;I&#8217;ll save your seat / I&#8217;ll pour your whisky neat / I&#8217;ll make you eat your greens / And do everything in between / Call me anytime / I&#8217;ll manage your damage / I&#8217;ll balance your budget / And make you a sandwich&#8221; </em><span style="font-style:normal;">[Je te garderai une place / Je te verserai ton whisky comme il faut / je te ferai manger tes legumes / Et faire tout le reste entre deux / Appelle-moi  n'importe quand / Je gererai tes problemes / Je ferai ton budget / Et je te ferai un sandwich] </span><em>et &#8220;Do your chart, do your math, and your laundry too / And these are just some of the things I&#8217;ll do&#8221; </em><span style="font-style:normal;">[Remplir une carte, faire tes maths, et ta lessive aussi / Et ce sont seulement quelques-unes des choses que je ferai]</span><em>. </em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Illinois is flat, Indiana is wooded, and being sick on a plane is awful.
L&#8217;Illinois est plat, l&#8217;Indiana est boise, et etre malade en avion c&#8217;est atroce.

Sorry I didn&#8217;t update sooner, but when I explain how the trip went you&#8217;ll understand.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Illinois is flat, Indiana is wooded, and being sick on a plane is awful.</p>
<p><em>L&#8217;Illinois est plat, l&#8217;Indiana est boise, et etre malade en avion c&#8217;est atroce.</em></p>
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<p>Sorry I didn&#8217;t update sooner, but when I explain how the trip went you&#8217;ll understand.</p>
<p>It began pretty well actually. I checked out of the hotel pretty quickly (and found out that the nice young men staying at my floor were all in the US Army &#8211; they were in the lobby when I came in to ckeck out and one even hurried to open the door for me and all) and the lady at the front desk showed me a phone I could use to call a taxi, and gave me the number of a company. It took me some time to figure out how the phone worked; I always have trouble with American phones, there&#8217;s always a number to dial before dialling the actual number you want to call, and sometimes that first number isn&#8217;t written anywhere (yesterday I even called the lady at the front desk by mistake, thinking I had found the right first number to dial). Anyway, I eventually reached the taxi company and someone came to pick me up ten minutes later &#8211; just the time for me to buy and eat a chocolate bar (which I&#8217;m never going to do again, just in case it was related to what happened afterwards).</p>
<p>The driver was a very nice woman who was in the mood to chat, and so was I so we got along fine. We talked about travels (she had been to Europe once, in 1984, when she was part of a band or something) and about the weather. She said that the storm had torn some playground equipment from the Wal-Mart&#8217;s parking lot and that it was very scary. I asked her if there were often storms like that in Illinois and she cheerfully said &#8220;oh, we get tornadoes pretty often, and an earthquake a few days ago&#8221;. I had heard about the earthquake but she told me more about it. I didn&#8217;t dare ask about the tornadoes &#8211; I&#8217;m not really afraid of earthquakes, although I know they can be pretty bad, but tornadoes&#8230; I&#8217;d rather not think about that too much.</p>
<p>I was at the airport very early, so I sat down to finish reading <em>Peter Pan</em> (some of my friends have studied it in a Chidlren&#8217;s Books class and I decided it was high time for me to read it) and then went to the check-in counter. It was too early after that to go through the security checkpoint (it was closed and would open again only at 11:30, said a sign) so I walked around. There was a huge bell that seemed to come from the tower on the campus (they have a bell tower there which plays nice melodies instead of just striking the hour) and it said it had been made in Annecy.</p>
<p>The plane was the thinnest plane I had ever seen &#8211; only three seats across, that is one on the left side (where I sat) and two on the right side. It looked beautiful from the outside.</p>
<p>After the plane moved away from the terminal, there was an announcement that I didn&#8217;t entirely catch (I was reading the introduction of my British history book, I figured it was time to start reading it) but the idea was that, because of the wind, our departure would be delayed by about an hour. I didn&#8217;t worry too much because I knew I had 2 hours in Chicago between the arrivals of this flight and the departure of the one to Indianapolis. I kept reading for one hour, then we were allowed to take off.</p>
<p>From my window, I could see that Illinois was indeed flat &#8211; it was an incredible sight from up there, actually. It was hard to tell where the land ended and when the sky began, and I had no idea how far I could see &#8211; 100 km? 200 km? It looked like a patchwork made of rectangular pieces of cloth, with parallel and perpendicular roads and some little things like beads maybe (farms and houses). It was really amazing and beautiful.</p>
<p>I wanted to enjoy it more, but it was indeed windy and I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s what caused it, or the chocolate bar I had eaten in the morning (although I had eaten those before without being sick) or something else entirely, but I started getting sick. Well, I was also uncomfortable because the plane was sometimes a little shaken by the wind, but I soon started feeling really sick. At one point we were told that we would land in 10 minutes and I remember thiking it was too late and I would have died by then.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t die, but by the time we landed, I had been very sick in one of these special bags (a passenger found one for me, there was none in the pocket in front of me), I couldn&#8217;t feel my hands anymore, I wasn&#8217;t sure I had the strength to move and I was crying although I couldn&#8217;t figure out why &#8211; I just couldn&#8217;t stop. Everyone got off the plane and here I was, crying and holding my little bag, shaking as if I had a fever (I don&#8217;t think I did) and unable to move. One of the flight attendants came to see me and seemed really worried, she asked me if that was some kind of seizure and if I had medical problems. I said no, that flying had never been a problem before (I had been nearly sick on the flight from Burlington to Detroit two years ago, but that was because I had eaten too much the night before and barely slept). She asked me if I could walk and I said I didn&#8217;t know, so she called for a wheelchair and had me brought that way to gate L8 where it seemed the flight for Indianapolis would depart. There was only half an hour left until boarding.</p>
<p>I stopped shaking on the way there and could feel my hands again when we arrived at gate L8 (we had arrived at gate H6 or something). I went to the bathroom because I still felt sick but nothing happened. That&#8217;s when I saw my face on a mirror and got really scared because I was so pale, my eyes were red and I looked really awful. I really looked like a zombie, in a word.</p>
<p>I went back to the gate and saw that there were two contradictory messages on the screens: one said that the next flight departing from that gate was the flight to Indianapolis, but the other said that the flight would in fact depart from gate H14. I asked what was going on to an American Airlines employee at another gate and she told me to go to the entrance of that hallway and check at the general screen there. It said gate H14. I had only 15 minutes to get there, I still felt sick and weak, and it was far away. And I had just gone the whole way on the wheelchair.</p>
<p>I made it, all the same, although the smell of food (there were many cafes and little restaurants, of course) didn&#8217;t make me feel better at all. The only thing I felt would help was to lie down and sleep, but I knew I wouldn&#8217;t be at the hotel for several hours &#8211; and I would have to take this flight and then endure one hour in the shuttle. I didn&#8217;t know if I could do that.</p>
<p>As it turned out, I was badly sick on that flight too, but not with the shaking and not being able to feel my hands though, and I could walk out of the plane and to the baggage claim on my own. Someone helped me get my suitcase from the carrousel and then I started looking for the ticket machine for the shuttle. I was still weak and I thought I should probably eat something, but the very idea of doing that made me feel worse and I thought it was probably better to keep an empty stomach. I found the ticket machine and bought two tickets (I&#8217;ll need one for the way back). There were limousine rental counters everywhere in that room and I thought I should have rented one or taken a taxi and I&#8217;d be at the hotel sooner that way. But I had bought my shuttle tickets and I knew that a taxi or a limousine would be too expensive. And maybe I would feel better by the time the shuttle came.</p>
<p>I did feel a little better when it came, and I wasn&#8217;t sick this time. I managed to notice that there were woods everywhere and it all looked very nice. My stop was the first; I was afraid the driver would bring my bags to the entrance of the hotel (since it was a fancy hotel and not at all the one where I was staying) but he didn&#8217;t. I waited until the van was gone and then I started walking away.</p>
<p>I wasn&#8217;t really in an ideal condition to carry all that luggage and I had to stop very often. At least the fresh air helped and I felt a little less like a zombie. I got lost on the way (went too far up a street, then realized my mistake and walked all the way down again). I found a gas station (actually, I found an adult store first, but didn&#8217;t dare go in) and asked someone how to get to the hotel. The guy said it wasn&#8217;t far, about a mile, and gave me directions. I was already very tired and my hands were hurting, but I grabbed my bags and started walking again. A woman in a car stopped near me once and asked if I needed a ride (I said it was nice of her to offer but I was nearly there) and a guy who was running on the sidewalk asked if I needed help (I said no again, but thanks for asking). It gave me some courage to see how nice people were.</p>
<p>I eventually arrived at the hotel, after walking for about one hour. My room turned out to be on the first floor, so I didn&#8217;t need to drag my bags much further. I wanted to go straight to bed, but I checked the Internet access first, freed Annie, and found out that my second bag had been searched by the TSA (they left a leaflet inside explaining this) but not the suitcase. I decided that a shower might help, and then I went to bed. I first set the alarm to 8:30 (it was about 9:30PM) but then decided I needed to sleep and it didn&#8217;t matter if I missed breakfast in the morning.</p>
<p>I was feeling much better this morning when I woke up (at 9:15, as it turned out). I didn&#8217;t look like a zombie anymore, but my jeans felt a little too big for me. I know my body pretty well and I think I may have lost nearly 1 kg, which is pretty scary. Well I won&#8217;t complain because I look better without it, but it&#8217;s a really bad way to lose weight.</p>
<p>I was on time for breakfast. I decided not to eat too much, although it was probably as if I hadn&#8217;t eaten in 36 hours; but I thought I should go slow and avoid getting sick again. I wanted to go for a walk after breakfast, but while eating my cereals I realized my hand was shaking a lot and that I&#8217;m probably not strong enough for a walk at the moment. So I came back to my room, put the &#8220;Do not disturb&#8221; sign at the door (I haven&#8217;t used half the towels in there, so that&#8217;s fine if they only change them tomorrow) and decided to see if I could talk to someone online.</p>
<p>At noon I was feeling pretty tired again so I changed to my comfortable clothes and decided to read in bed a little. Eventually I put the book and the glasses away and slept again until about 4PM. I woke up about every 45 minutes (probably whenever the heating/cooling system went on) but that was okay.</p>
<p>Now it&#8217;s 5PM and I&#8217;m hungry, so I&#8217;ll try to do something about my hair, change and go out to find a restaurant where I can get a good dinner. I&#8217;m still feeling weak but now I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s just the lack of food and if I eat well tonight I should be fine tomorrow. I&#8217;ll also check MapQuest to get an itinerary for tomorrow &#8211; my appointment with the school&#8217;s admissions service is at 10AM so I can&#8217;t really afford to get lost on the way there. The appointment with the International Admissions is at 2PM and then I&#8217;m done with appointments and school visits. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll be able to go to Indianapolis on Tuesday as I wanted because it seems rather far from here and I don&#8217;t know if there&#8217;s a bus &#8211; maybe a train? I&#8217;ll check that after dinner.</p>
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<p><em>Desolee de ne pas avoir fait de mise a jour plus tot, mais quand j&#8217;aurai explique comment s&#8217;et passe le voyage, vous comprendrez. </em></p>
<p><em>Ca avait bien commence, en fait. J&#8217;ai rendu ma chambre assez rapidement (et decouvert que les charmants jeunes hommes qui logeaient a mon etage etaient tous dans l&#8217;armee – ils etaient a la reception quand je suis entree pour rendre ma cle, et l&#8217;un d&#8217;entre eux s&#8217;est meme precipite pour m&#8217;ouvrir la porte et tout) et la dame a la reception m&#8217;a montre un telephone que je pouvais utiliser pour appeler un taxi et m&#8217;a donne le numero d&#8217;une compagnie. Ca m&#8217;a pris un bon moment de comprendre comment le telephone fonctionnait ; j&#8217;ai toujours du mal avec les telephones  americains, il faut toujours composer un chiffre avant de composer le numero qu&#8217;on veut appeler, et parfois ce chiffre n&#8217;est ecrit nulle part (hier j&#8217;ai meme appele la dame a la reception par erreur, cyant avoir trouve le bon chiffre). Enfin, au bout du compte jai fini par joindre la compagnie rode taxis et quelqu&#8217;un est venu me prendre au bout de dix minutes – juste le temps qu&#8217;il me fallait pour acheter et manger une barre de chocolat (ce que je ne ferai jamais plus, juste au cas ou ce serait lie a ce qui s&#8217;est passe apres).</em></p>
<p><em>Le chauffeur etait une femme tres sympa qui avait envie de parler, et moi aussi donc on s&#8217;est tres bien entendues. Nous avons parle de voyages (elle est allee en Europe une fois, en 1984, quand elle faisait partie d&#8217;un orchestre je crois) et du temps. Elle m&#8217;a dit que la tempete avait arrache des portiques pour enfants du parking du Wal-Mart et que c&#8217;etait effrayant. Je lui ai demande s&#8217;il y avait souvent des tempetes comme ca dans l&#8217;Illinois, et elle m&#8217;a repondu sur un ton joyeux : “oh, on a des tornades assez souvent, et il y a eu un tremblement de terre il y a quelques jours.” J&#8217;avais entendu parler du tremblement de terre mais elle m&#8217;en a dit un peu plus. Je n&#8217;ai pas ose poser de questions sur les tornades – je n&#8217;ai pas vraiment peur des tremblements de terre meme si je sais que ca peut etre vraiment violent, mais les tornades&#8230; je prefere ne pas trop y penser.</em></p>
<p><em>Je suis arrivee a l&#8217;aeroport assez tot, donc je me suis assise pour finir de lire </em><span style="font-style:normal;">Peter Pan</span><em> (plusieurs de mes amies l&#8217;ont etudiee dans un cours sur la litterature de jeunesse et je me suis dit qu&#8217;il etait grand temps de le lire) puis je suis allee a l&#8217;enregistrement. Apres ca, il etait trop tot pour passer le controle de securite (il etait ferme et ne rouvrirait qu&#8217;a 11h30, c&#8217;etait ecrit sur un panneau) donc je me suis promenee dans le terminal. Il y avait une enorme cloche qui semblait venir de la tour sur le campus (ils ont un clocher ou ils jouent des melodies au lieu de simplement sonner les heures) et c&#8217;etait ecrit qu&#8217;elle venait d&#8217;Annecy.</em></p>
<p><em>L&#8217;avion etait le plus fin que j&#8217;aie jamais vu – seulement trois sieges de front, c&#8217;est a dire un sur la gauche (la ou j&#8217;etais) et deux sur la droite. Il etait tres joli vu de l&#8217;exterieur.</em></p>
<p><em>Apres que l&#8217;avion se soit eloigne du terminal, il y a eu une annonce que je n&#8217;ai pas entirement suivie (j&#8217;etais en train de lire l&#8217;introduction de mon livre d&#8217;histoire britannique, je me suis dit qu&#8217;il etait temps de le lire) mais en gros, cela disait que, a cause du vent, le depart serait retarde d&#8217;une heure. Je ne me suis pas trop inquietee parce que je savais que j&#8217;avais deux heures a Chicago entre l&#8217;arrivee de ce vol et le depart de celui pour Indianapolis.  J&#8217;ai continue a lire pendant une heure, puis on a ete autorise a decoller.</em></p>
<p><em>Par le hublot, je pouvais voir que l&#8217;Illinois est effectivement plat – c&#8217;etait assez incroyable a voir de la haut, en fait. Il etait difficile de juger ou la terre finissait et ou commencait le ciel, et je n&#8217;avais pas la moindre idee de l&#8217;etendue que je pouvoir voir – 100 km ? 200 km? C&#8217;etait comme un patchwork fait de morceaux de tissu rectangulaires, avec des routes paralleles et perpendiculaires et de petites choses comme des perles, peut-etre (des fermes et des maisons). C&#8217;etait impressionnant et vraiment magnifique.</em></p>
<p><em>Je voulais en profiter plus longtemps, mais il y avait vraiment pas mal de vent et je ne sais pas si c&#8217;est ce qui l&#8217;a cause, ou la barre de chocolat que j&#8217;avais mange le matin (quoique j&#8217;en avais mange avant sans etre malade) ou quelque chose d&#8217;autre, mais j&#8217;ai commence a me sentir malade. Bon, j&#8217;etais aussi mal parce que l&#8217;avion etait parfois secoue par le vent, mais assez vite j&#8217;ai commence a me sentir vraiment malade. A un moment on nous a dit que nous allions atterrir dans 10 minutes et je me souviens m&#8217;etre dit que c&#8217;etait trop tard et que je serais morte d&#8217;ici-la.</em></p>
<p><em>Je n&#8217;en suis pas morte, mais quand nous avons atterris, j&#8217;avais ete tres malade dans un de ces sacs speciaux (un passager en a trouve un pour moi, il n&#8217;y en avait pas dans la pochette en face de moi), je ne pouvais plus sentir mes mains, je n&#8217;etais pas sure que j&#8217;avais la force de bouger, et je pleurais meme si je ne comprenais pas pourquoi – je ne pouvais tout simplement pas m&#8217;arreter. Tout le monde est descendu de l&#8217;avion et moi j&#8217;etais la, en train de pleurer avec mon petit sac a la main, toute tremblante comme si j&#8217;avais de la fievre (je ne crois pas que j&#8217;en avais) et incapable de bouger. Une des hotesses est venue me parler et avait l&#8217;air vraiment inquiete, elle m&#8217;a demande si c&#8217;etait un genre de crise et si j&#8217;avais un probleme medical. Je lui ai dit que non, que l&#8217;avion ne m&#8217;avait jamais pose de probleme avant (j&#8217;avais ete presque malade sur le vol entre Burlington et Detroit il y a deux ans, mais c&#8217;etait parce que j&#8217;avais trop mange la veille au soir et presque pas dormi). Elle m&#8217;a demande si je pouvais marcher et j&#8217;ai dit que je ne savais pas, donc elle a demande un fauteuil roulant et m&#8217;a fait emmener dedans a la porte L8 d&#8217;ou le vol pour Indianapolis devait partir. Il ne restait qu&#8217;une demi-heure avant l&#8217;embarquement.</em></p>
<p><em>J&#8217;ai arrete de trembler en route et je pouvais sentir mes mains a nouveau quand nous sommes arrives a la porte L8 (nous etions arrives a la porte H6 ou quelque chose comme ca). Je suis allee aux toilettes parce que je me sentais toujours malade mais il ne s&#8217;est rien passe. C&#8217;est la que j&#8217;ai vu ma tete dans le miroir et j&#8217;ai vraiment eu peur parce que j&#8217;etais tres pale, mes yeux etaient rouges et j&#8217;avais vraiment une tete horrible. Je ressemblais vraiment a un zombie, en un mot.</em></p>
<p><em>Je suis retournee a la porte et j&#8217;ai vu qu&#8217;il y avait deux messages contradictoires sur les ecrans : un disait que le prochain vol qui partait de cette porte etait celui pour Indianapolis, mais l&#8217;autre disait que le vol partirait en fait de la porte H14. J&#8217;ai demande ce qu&#8217;il en etait a une employee d&#8217;American Airlines a une autre porte et elle m&#8217;a dit d&#8217;aller au bout de ce couloir et de rgarder sur l&#8217;ecran general. C&#8217;etait ecrit porte H14. J&#8217;avais seulement un quart d&#8217;heure pour y aller, je me sentais toujours malade et c&#8217;etait tres loin. Et je venais de parcourir tout ce chemin dans le fauteuil roulant.</em></p>
<p><em>Je l&#8217;ai fait, en fin de compte, meme si les odeurs de nourriture (il y avait beaucoup de cafes et de petits restaurants, bien sur) ne m&#8217;ont pas aidee a me sentir mieux. La seule chose qui me semblait pouvoir aider etait de me coucher et de dormir, mais je savais que je ne serais pas a l&#8217;hotel avant plusieurs heures – et je devais prendre cet avion et ensuite passer une heure en navette. Je ne savais pas si je pourrais le faire.</em></p>
<p><em>Il s&#8217;est avere que j&#8217;ai ete tres malade pendant ce vol-la aussi, mais sans les tremblements et l&#8217;impossibilite de sentir mes mains, et j&#8217;ai pu sortir de l&#8217;avion et aller recuperer mes bagages toute seule. Quelqu&#8217;un m&#8217;a aidee a recuperer ma valise sur le tapis roulant et j&#8217;ai commence a chercher la machine automatique ou je pouvais acheter mes tickets pour la navette. Je me sentais toujours faible et j&#8217;ai pense que je devrais probablement manger quelque chose, mais la simple idee de faire ca me faisait me sentir encore plus mal et j&#8217;ai pense qu&#8217;il valait probablement mieux garder l&#8217;estomach vide. J&#8217;ai trouve le distributeur et achete deux tickets (il m&#8217;en faut un pour le retour). Il y avait des comptoirs de location de limousines partout dans cette piece et je me suis dit que j&#8217;aurais du en louer une ou prendre un taxi et que je serais a l&#8217;hotel plus vite comme ca. Mais j&#8217;avais achete mes tickets pour la navette et je savais qu&#8217;un taxi ou une limousine serait bien trop cher. Et peut-etre que je me sentirais mieux quand la navette arriverait.</em></p>
<p><em>Je me sentais effectivement un peu mieux quand elle est arrivee, et je n&#8217;ai pas ete malade cette fois-ci. J&#8217;ai reussi a remarquer qu&#8217;il y avait des bois partouut et que ca avait l&#8217;air tres joli. Mon arret etait le premier ; j&#8217;avais peur que le conducteur n&#8217;apporte mes bagages a l&#8217;entree de l&#8217;hotel (puisque c&#8217;etait un hotel chic et pas du tout celui ou j&#8217;allais rester) mais il ne l&#8217;a pas fait. J&#8217;ai attendu que le minibus soit parti puis je suis partie.</em></p>
<p><em>Je n&#8217;etais pas vraiment dans une forme optimale pour porter tous ces bagages et j&#8217;ai du m&#8217;arreter assez souvent. Au moins l&#8217;air frais me soulageait et je me sentais un peu moins comme un zombie. Je me suis perdue en route (je suis allee trop loin sur une rue, puis j&#8217;ai realise mon erreur et j&#8217;ai fait tout le chemin a l&#8217;envers. J&#8217;ai trouve une station service (en fait, j&#8217;ai trouve un magasin X avant, mais je n&#8217;ai pas ose entrer) et j&#8217;ai demande a quelqu&#8217;un comment aller a l&#8217;hotel. Le gus a dit que ce n&#8217;etait pas loin, a peine un mile, et m&#8217;a explique le chemin. J&#8217;etais deja tres fatiguee et j&#8217;avais mal aux mains, mais j&#8217;ai attrape mes bagages et recommence a marcher. Une dame en voiture s&#8217;est arretee pour me demander si j&#8217;avais besoin qu&#8217;elle m&#8217;emmene (j&#8217;ai dit que c&#8217;etait gentil de sa part de proposer, mais que j&#8217;etais presque arrivee) et un gus qui courait sur le trottoir m&#8217;a demande si j&#8217;avais besoin d&#8217;aide (j&#8217;ai dit non a nouveau, mais merci de demander). Ca m&#8217;a donne du courage de voir que les gens etaient si gentils.</em></p>
<p><em>J&#8217;ai fini par arriver a l&#8217;hotel, apres a peu pres une heure de marche. Ma room s&#8217;est averee etre au rez-de-chaussee, donc je n&#8217;ai pas eu besoin de trainer mes bagages beaucoup plus loin. Je voulais aller me coucher directement, mais j&#8217;ai verifie l&#8217;acces a Internet en premier, libere Annie, et decouvert que mon deuxieme sac avait ete fouille par la TSA (ils ont laisse un papier explicatif a l&#8217;interieur) mais pas la valise. J&#8217;ai decide qu&#8217;une douche devrait aider, puis je me suis couchee. J&#8217;ai d&#8217;abord regle le reveila 8h30 (il etait a peu pres 21h30) mais je me suis dit apres que j&#8217;avais besoin de dormir et que ce n&#8217;etait pas tres grave si je manquais le petit dejeuner le lendemain matin.</em></p>
<p><em>Je me sentais beaucoup mieux ce matin quand je me suis reveille (a 9h15, en fin de compte). Je ne ressemblais plus a un zombie, mais mon jean avait l&#8217;air trop grand pour moi. Je connais mon corps plutot bien et je pense que j&#8217;ai perdu jusqu&#8217;a un kilo, ce qui est assez effrayant. Je ne vais pas me plaindre parce que je suis mieux comme ca, mais c&#8217;est une mauvaise facon de perdre du poids.</em></p>
<p><em>J&#8217;etais a l&#8217;heure pour le petit dejeuner. J&#8217;ai decide de ne pas trop manger, meme si c&#8217;etait probablement comme si je n&#8217;avais rien mange en 36 heures ; mais je me suis dit que je devrais y aller doucement et eviter d&#8217;etre malade a nouveau. Je voulais aller faire un tour a pied apres le petit dejeuner, mais en mangeant mes cereales j&#8217;ai remarque que ma main tremblait pas mal et que je n&#8217;etais probablement pas assez forte pour marcher, en tout cas pour l&#8217;instant. Donc je suis retournee a la chambre, ai mis le panneau “ne pas deranger” sur la porte (je n&#8217;ai pas utilise la moitie des serviettes, donc c&#8217;est pas grave s&#8217;ils ne les changent que demain) et j&#8217;ai decide de voir si je pouvais parler a quelqu&#8217;un en ligne. </em></p>
<p><em>A midi j&#8217;etais a nouveau assez fatiguee donc j&#8217;ai mis quelque chose de plus confortable et decide de lire au lit un peu. En fin de compte j&#8217;ai range le livre et mes lunettes et j&#8217;ai dormi a nouveau jusqu&#8217;a environ 16h. Je me suis reveillee toutes les 45 minutes (probablement quand le systeme de chauffage/climatisation se remettait en marche) mais ce n&#8217;etait pas grave.</em></p>
<p><em>Maintenant il est 17h et j&#8217;ai faim, donc je vais essayer d&#8217;arranger mes cheveux, me changer et sortir a la recherche d&#8217;un restaurant ou je peux avoir un bon diner. Je me suis toujours faiblarde mais maintenant je suis sure que c&#8217;est juste le manque de nourriture et que si je mange bien ce soir ca devrait aller demain. Je vais aussi regarder sur MapQuest si je peux trouver un itineraire pour demain – mon rendez-vous au service des admissions de l&#8217;ecole est a 10h donc je ne peux pas vraiment m&#8217;offrir le luxe de me perdre en route. Le rendez-vous avec les admissions internationales est a 14h et apres ca les rendez-vous et les visites d&#8217;ecoles seront terminees. Je ne sais pas si je pourrai aller a Indianapolis mardi comme je voulais parce que ca semble assez loin et je ne sais pas s&#8217;il y a un car – peut-etre un train ? Je regarderai ca apres le diner.</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moving again&#8230;
Et on demenage a nouveau&#8230;

I&#8217;m leaving in about half an hour &#8211; the flight is at 12:25 and the airport is only 3 miles from here, so I guess I&#8217;ll get there very quickly and that I don&#8217;t need to leave before 10 &#8211; but in any case I need to leave before 11.
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<p><em>Et on demenage a nouveau&#8230;</em></p>
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<p>I&#8217;m leaving in about half an hour &#8211; the flight is at 12:25 and the airport is only 3 miles from here, so I guess I&#8217;ll get there very quickly and that I don&#8217;t need to leave before 10 &#8211; but in any case I need to leave before 11.</p>
<p>It is suddenly very cold here (so cold that it woke me up during the night) but there doesn&#8217;t seem to be any wind now, and the sky is blue. I really really hope it won&#8217;t rain tonight. It is hard enough as it is to go anywhere on foot in this country (I love the US but this country isn&#8217;t appropriate for pedestrians), but if on top of that it&#8217;s raining&#8230; Oh well, I&#8217;ll see when I get there anyway.</p>
<p>Everything is packed and my suitcase should be lighter this time, so there should be no problems at check-in. I didn&#8217;t go to breakfast after all, I wasn&#8217;t hungry &#8211; I just ate my last yogurt and drank my last bottle of apple juice. I guess it&#8217;s better not to eat too much before flying anyway.</p>
<p>I guess that&#8217;s it for now &#8211; next time I write, I should be in Indiana.</p>
<p>- &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; -</p>
<p><em>Je pars dans une demi-heure environ &#8211; le vol est a 12h25 et l&#8217;aeroport n&#8217;est qu&#8217;a 5km d&#8217;ici, donc je suppose que j&#8217;y serai rapidement et que je n&#8217;ai pas besoin de partir avant 10h &#8211; mais de toute facon je dois partir avant 11h.<br />
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<p><em>Il fait tres froid ici tout a coup (si froid que ca m&#8217;a reveillee cette nuit) mais il ne semble plus y avoir de vent et le ciel est bleu. J&#8217;espere vraiment qu&#8217;il ne pleuvra pas ce soir. C&#8217;est deja assez dur comme ca de se deplacer a pied dans ce pays (j&#8217;adore les USA mais ce pays n&#8217;est pas fait pour les pietons) mais si il pleut par-dessus le marche&#8230; Enfin bon, je verrai bien quand j&#8217;y serai de toute facon.<br />
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<p><em>Tout est pret et ma valise devrait etre plus legere cette fois-ci, donc il ne devrait pas y avoir de probleme a l&#8217;enregistrement. Je ne suis pas allee prendre le petit-dejeuner en fin de compte, je n&#8217;avais pas faim &#8211; j&#8217;ai juste mange mon dernier yaourt et bu ma derniere bouteille de jus de pomme. Je suppose que c&#8217;est mieux de ne pas trop manger avant de prendre l&#8217;avion, de toute facon.<br />
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<p><em>Je pense que c&#8217;est tout pour l&#8217;instant &#8211; la prochaine fois que j&#8217;ecrirai, je devrais etre dans l&#8217;Indiana.</em></p>
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