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• James
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• Visiting eight different myO friends in person thus far
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• Winter 2001
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• Neon Genesis Evangelion, .hack//SIGN, Naruto, Bleach, Beck, Peacemaker Kurogane, Ranma 1/2 (the guilty pleasure)
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• Visit the myO friends I've missed thus far; complete a cosplay from 300
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• Can recognise most quotes from almost any movie/show on first listen; Can recite the entire 12 days of Christmas by memory
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
So far so good . . .
First off, since I haven't said anything about it yet . . . Schultzie, 'tis some wonderful news about August and I look forward to hashing out le plans soon enough!
Alright . . . so the bad news is that I'm paying 59€ per night in the hotel I'm staying at right now.
The good news? I found a hotel, period! AND I made it to Dieppe in one piece! AND I hit up a laverie automatique today so I have clean clothes again finally!
So how hae I been since? Well, first off it's taking me longer to type things out over here because European/French keyboards are laid out significantly different from North American ones. I'm starting to get a feel for it, but it's still messing me up a lot. Umm . . . my cough seems to be getting better, which is probably in part to not staying up and drinking every night anymore (along with having cough syrup with codine in it . . .). I have a new found love for baguettes as cheap and filling food . . . and . . . I'm finding all sorts of great Canadian-type war memorials here in Dieppe. I've still more to see, but apparently museums and stuff are closed on Tuesdays here. Go fig, I guess.
Speaking of memorials . . . I finally saw the Vimy Ridge Memorial yesterday before I left the tour group while we were enroute back to London. Gotta tell ya, that thing is amazing and pretty much everyone who didn't leave the bus coach in Paris knew how much it meant to me by the end. For one, if not for knowing we'd stop in Vimy on the way to London, I would have left the tour in Paris . . . for another, a guy gave me the bus microphone so I could tell everyone about Vimy Ridge. Finally, once the bus came to the parking lot outside the memorial, I got off the bus and RAN to it since we only had 10 minutes to be there.
Heh . . . then I had a taxi called for me at the visitor's centre to bring me back to town, got my bags and said my goodbyes to the rest of the people. I'll be honest, it felt pretty special to get off in the middle of nowhere like that. People were shocked that I was if they didn't know prior, I got to go down the bus and give everyone still going to London a personal goodbye . . . and then as they drove off and I got my gear together, I got a big line of waving hands from all the windows as they drove past me. Yeah, that'll be q keeper memory . . .
So it's about 2:40pm in France today. I'll probably just wander around until dinner and then go to bed early or write or something. I'll probably post again when I'm in Caen just so I don't keep hitting up this internet café nonstop. Tomorrow I'll check out the castle, the Dieppe Raid memorial/museum . . . heh, I'm probably gonna get bored once I'm done. Ah well . . .
Oh, and according to all the MSN screen names of everyone set to "away" while I sat here NOT chatting with anyone (what the hell?!?!), apparently they announced Starcraft 2. Neat.
Alright, time to wander. Au revoir, mes amis!
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