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Oct. 8th, 2004 06:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fan_eluneAt last!
Yes, I finally have the opportunity to update. And before I go ranting on about me, me, me, and me, could I ask a favour of you guys? I'm not going to be able to read up on everything I've missed on my Friends page, so if you could just point me to any entry of significant interest and/or importance that you might have posted? Or just tell me very quickly what you've been up to these days?
Now, for my part - here is great. Absolutely fantastic, apart from the internet issue (I'm in an internet cafe, they won't let me connect Kaylee at the school and on their computers they have a filter against many sites, including livejournal). The other assistants I live with are great, we all get on well. (And as a sidenote, we watched The Others last night and wow. Brilliant movie. Positively brilliant. Acting, writing, directing... and also? You've got to love a movie that makes you take a new look at places you thought you knew - my bedroom has never looked so foreign to me. Brilliant.) Their names are Daniel, Julia and Etienne, Etienne being the other French guy, and the two others being German. We also have Leticia (Spanish) and Weiwei (Chinese), but they live in different places. Our landlady Marlene is extremely nice, we've been out to the pub with her and some friends of hers and won some money-for-drinks at a pop quizz. I love the atmosphere of pubs, and this pop quizz tradition is so very British.
Also, delightful accents all around. If you like the accents in those parts of the country, which I do. Muchly. There's also a teacher from around Newcastle, with the most delightful Jordi accent. I could listen to her talking for hours, I think. The job itself is all right for the moment, we're only just getting really started so it's hard to say. It varies a lot with the pupils, some of them are very hard to manage, others very enthusiastic and happy to talk with "real" French people, as we keep being introduced. I have yet to be introduced to the Head of Drama, but it's on the agenda. I'm also giving a couple lessons in a primary school for just a few weeks, and it's excellent. Teaching kids of about 10 is incredibly rewarding, because those actually want to learn, and you get to have fun at the same time! However, kids are much harder to understand than grown-ups to a foreign ear.
Walked down Canal Street the other day - yes, girls, I did it! It was the afternoon, so pretty dead all around, but I do plan on coming back one night, hopefully with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
greenie_breizh. twixou, I'm sorry to say that I have sighted no Vince as of yet. However, I have sighted (and bought) S2 of Alias on sale. Now's the part where Jo tells me what a hopeless case I am.
Only been out once to Warrington, we were planning on going to Manchester the next night but were just knackered. We might just go again tonight, and we're hoping to get a car quite soon (a friend of Marlene's might just give one to Daniel and the four of us will be sharing the insurance) because public transports are a pain, and an expensive pain at that, and it'll make our life so much easier on many levels, not just to go out clubbing.
As far as writing goes, I've been working on my Firefly/Highlander crossover, which is ending up being a true Ffl/HL/Carnivale crossover after all. It makes so much sense now. Everything is clicking together, becoming much clearer, yay! I love writing the guys from Carnivale, and they fit perfectly into the Ffl universe. I also need to get back to Collion and OMT, I can't believe how long it's been since I decided to do a major revamp of the first chapters of the lattest, and I still haven't done it!
I finished reading the third book of Martin's Song of Fire and Ice, I need to find out if the fourth has already been released, and if not when it'll be. I had a great time with that, Martin's style makes you care for the characters so much, good and "evil" alike, it's splendid. (And it's got me obsessed with another man with a scar. How peculiar.) I've now started Karin Lowachee's Warchild again, and I'm still in awe of her talent. I truly can't wait for her next novel.
Oh, and Weiwei is trying to teach us some Chinese. Poor her, she doesn't know what she's getting into.And my interest in Chinese has nothing to do with writing Firefly fiction, no siree.
On that note, I hope I'll now be able to give you news more regularly - and catch up with you all, too! Zaijian!
Yes, I finally have the opportunity to update. And before I go ranting on about me, me, me, and me, could I ask a favour of you guys? I'm not going to be able to read up on everything I've missed on my Friends page, so if you could just point me to any entry of significant interest and/or importance that you might have posted? Or just tell me very quickly what you've been up to these days?
Now, for my part - here is great. Absolutely fantastic, apart from the internet issue (I'm in an internet cafe, they won't let me connect Kaylee at the school and on their computers they have a filter against many sites, including livejournal). The other assistants I live with are great, we all get on well. (And as a sidenote, we watched The Others last night and wow. Brilliant movie. Positively brilliant. Acting, writing, directing... and also? You've got to love a movie that makes you take a new look at places you thought you knew - my bedroom has never looked so foreign to me. Brilliant.) Their names are Daniel, Julia and Etienne, Etienne being the other French guy, and the two others being German. We also have Leticia (Spanish) and Weiwei (Chinese), but they live in different places. Our landlady Marlene is extremely nice, we've been out to the pub with her and some friends of hers and won some money-for-drinks at a pop quizz. I love the atmosphere of pubs, and this pop quizz tradition is so very British.
Also, delightful accents all around. If you like the accents in those parts of the country, which I do. Muchly. There's also a teacher from around Newcastle, with the most delightful Jordi accent. I could listen to her talking for hours, I think. The job itself is all right for the moment, we're only just getting really started so it's hard to say. It varies a lot with the pupils, some of them are very hard to manage, others very enthusiastic and happy to talk with "real" French people, as we keep being introduced. I have yet to be introduced to the Head of Drama, but it's on the agenda. I'm also giving a couple lessons in a primary school for just a few weeks, and it's excellent. Teaching kids of about 10 is incredibly rewarding, because those actually want to learn, and you get to have fun at the same time! However, kids are much harder to understand than grown-ups to a foreign ear.
Walked down Canal Street the other day - yes, girls, I did it! It was the afternoon, so pretty dead all around, but I do plan on coming back one night, hopefully with
greenie_breizh. twixou, I'm sorry to say that I have sighted no Vince as of yet. However, I have sighted (and bought) S2 of Alias on sale. Only been out once to Warrington, we were planning on going to Manchester the next night but were just knackered. We might just go again tonight, and we're hoping to get a car quite soon (a friend of Marlene's might just give one to Daniel and the four of us will be sharing the insurance) because public transports are a pain, and an expensive pain at that, and it'll make our life so much easier on many levels, not just to go out clubbing.
As far as writing goes, I've been working on my Firefly/Highlander crossover, which is ending up being a true Ffl/HL/Carnivale crossover after all. It makes so much sense now. Everything is clicking together, becoming much clearer, yay! I love writing the guys from Carnivale, and they fit perfectly into the Ffl universe. I also need to get back to Collion and OMT, I can't believe how long it's been since I decided to do a major revamp of the first chapters of the lattest, and I still haven't done it!
I finished reading the third book of Martin's Song of Fire and Ice, I need to find out if the fourth has already been released, and if not when it'll be. I had a great time with that, Martin's style makes you care for the characters so much, good and "evil" alike, it's splendid. (And it's got me obsessed with another man with a scar. How peculiar.) I've now started Karin Lowachee's Warchild again, and I'm still in awe of her talent. I truly can't wait for her next novel.
Oh, and Weiwei is trying to teach us some Chinese. Poor her, she doesn't know what she's getting into.
On that note, I hope I'll now be able to give you news more regularly - and catch up with you all, too! Zaijian!
