BUFFY'S FIRST POST

Hello, this is my first entry. Ben has finally showed me how to do my own enteries! HOORAY BEN!! So now you can have my perspective about life here in France and in particular Grenoble. After a stressful two days of teaching I am happy to say that I am en vacances, on vacation for all you anglophones. This break will last until the first week in November. Thank goodness, I am beat! But seriously, I have been quite busy, tutoring, babysitting, working for the Potdevins and trying to see Ben when I can, but it is mostly on the weekends. Heading off to Dublin the 29th, going to be trying my hand at my fourth marathon, I am equally unprepared for this one as I have been for the rest, but I will give it a go none-the-less, it is in celebration of my friend Jenny's birthday, the big 3-0! Should be a fun girls-weekend on the island! Should have my official residence permit on Tuesday, hard to believe it this is my third one, I think the French might be catching up to my ILLUSION STUDENT status, I do not know how much longer I can keep this up! Please stay tuned for our continuinig adventures!

Lac Acharde

Lac Acharde
Originally uploaded by Ben from England.

nice lake in the hills about an hour fairly streneous walk from the ski resort . V popular with family sorts, many kids in baskets on backs etc. nice.

Dead cable cars...

Dead cable cars...
Originally uploaded by Ben from England.

where they all come to die.... you can see the rust so I hope this was pre-emptive of a mass failure, or just some precuationary measuer, I am becomeing so risk averse in my old age, I might have to counter it by gambling (kidding!) or some extreme sports... chess? nice rhythm to this photo.

Embrionic cable car

Embrionic cable car
Originally uploaded by Ben from England.

Just feel the tensile strenght! I was standing in front of this reel, about three feet away, its huge! obviously made by trefileurope, who I imagine have a VERY tight QA procedure. I can imagine the spotty student intern on the customer hotline "Yeah, well we're supposed to check every reel that goes out, but you know, everyone's human, and some guy brought a PSP in, it is totally cool!, OH, right... so let me write this down, how many? OK, and all dead, right, I'll let my supervisor know....yeah, now, sure"