Carte de Sejour!

Sorry for the absence of posts, if anyone has been following my blog at all. (I won't blame anyone, it's not that interesting plus it has way too little updates). Anyway, this is a great news, I have finally received my Carte de Sejour! After the painstaking process of retrieving my birth certificate, and 3 visits to the notorious Profecture, I finally got it! Now I can move around and work! WooHoo!!!

p.s. Cate de Sejour is the resident permit/card of France. The one I have got is a temporary one. I will get a permanent/official one earliest in June. Also, surprisingly, the woman who helped us yesterday in the main profecture was actually really friendly. Can't complain about her this time. Nor the previous one. But the first woman we dealt with was rude, not considerate and not friendly at all. I have come across a website referring them as 'the Profecture Witch', partly because they are not that friendly, and partly because of all the hatred and frustration that's produced in those places for among foreigners.

Sunday

This week is a little bit special: Johan is not here.
I was quite worried about being alone for 9 days! Turns out:
1) it will be only 8 days
2) I am fine! It is quite nice actually...now that I don't have his easy company, I have to figure out something fun to do with myself.

Today I was going to go to this walker meetup thing. But I think i am going to skip it. I don't know...I don't feel like meeting a large group of strangers again, maybe. I don't know....maybe I should go? It could be fun? You never know with this kind of big group meetups...and my real problem is i cannot make up my mind. I keep changing it. Although staying at home could be nice as well.

Well, I don't think I am going afterall.

I woke up in arguing with my dad. Of course that is only a dream. I have a few ambitions in mind this morning: today, I am going to study some french, watch a good film, and just take it easy. Yesterday was nice as I went to the market, carried heavy stuff home as if I was weightlifting, and I also met up with Anna-Maria and had a great evening.

Today I want to do a few things I have always wanted: get to know my dear Nikon D40, learn some photoshop stuff, read about UNESCO, and watch a good film. Maybe I will try to go over to my neighbour...if I am not feeling too shy, or if she is home.

à bientôt!

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I went out to another food market and took some pics! And I finally learned how to make a frame for picture with photoshop. Here's my first piece of work:

Daily photo project

I have this big idea about doing a daily photo project. But then, I think I cannot really do a daily photo blog. Let's start with 3 photos a week. So I am going to load 2 picutres this time and then leave one for the weekend. I think this would be good for me...in many unknown ways. I just feel that it would be good.
So this is Jardin de Luxembourg. It is very close to where we live and I took this picture in mid-March. Back then, there were no leaves on the trees and now they are fully green! I have to take a picture of the leaves as they are a very peculiar kind of green---almost apple green. Very pretty.
I don't particularly like this fountain. It is our end of the entrance to the park. I took picture of it as it is quite spectacular. And I suspect my camera cannot focus properly...I hope it is only me who's not focusing but rather the camera. We will see.

This is MY WINDOW. We are living in a very Parisien flat and so our windows have 'blinds' (?) like this. It is very pretty to look at even though it felt a bit strange to open and close them at the begining. It is almost like a door....you can shut your room out by shutting them.

(this is an old draft......it's a bit of a shame that I really cannot keep anything as planned. I will try again this week now that i am not working anymore).