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The other day I began learning French. For Christmas, my grandmother gave me a learning program with CDs, CD ROMs and a book. I'm also planning on taking French when I go to the community college next month. So yesterday and the day before I was listening to the audio stuff on my iPod and reading the reference book, along with a few other French language-related books we happen to have around. The only problem is that the CD ROMs are for Windows - I have an iMac. So the only way to utilise the main part of the whole program is to inconveniently go to my grandma's house whenever I get the chance to use it on her Windows computer (a piece of crap which I utterly despise). That's what I'm going to do today.
And what's cool is that my sister is also learning French at the moment, though she's been doing it for several months now, so she can help me out sometimes.

In case you're care, Christmas was pretty nice. Though on C. Eve and C. Day I felt like puking pretty much the entire time. Like, seriously, I should have controlled my fudge and cookie intake. If I got pulled over by the cops and had to take a Fudgilizer Test, my Blood Fudge Level would have been WAY over the legal limit. Then the day after C. I decided to stop eating, and also, for some reason, to stop drinking coffee. So I felt like crap and had a headache all day. But now I'm back on the wagon. Or is it off the wagon? I can never remember which.

So anyway, my new toys include a digital camera (I still need to buy a memory card, I hope to do that today) from my parents. It also takes videos, apparently with sound, so you might be seeing more of me on YouTube. Also, from my grandmother, an Arthur Dent-like dressing gown, from my aunt, a Mr. Rogers-like cardigan and a box of tea, and from my uncle, guitar accessories.

PS: What's the point of muffins? I mean, they're not really very good at all, just tiny little cakes that are usually dry and nasty. I mean, you're in a coffee shop picking out a delicious baked good to go with your Triple Grande Mochacino Frappalatte Espresso Supreme, and what kind of idiot would bypass all the doughnuts, cheesecake, cinnamon rolls and chocolate cake and get a freaking MUFFIN? Muffins suck.

PPS: Except for those lemon muffins with the poppy seeds. Those are pretty good.

French is a highly cool language to learn. Anything made just for Windows fails utterly. Try Wine - it's sort of like a Windows emulator, though doesn't work much of the time and requires technical know-how and getting X11 to work on your Mac in the first place, but http://www.winehq.org/ will tell you things about that.

You're either on the wagon or off the wagon.

I'm jealous - I definitely want fudge. A friend left some toffee on our doorstep, but that was our doorstep back home and we've been out of town for the past two weeks, so I doubt it's there anymore.

Your relatives give you ... interesting... presents.

These muffins are good: http://muffins.rotahall.org - though generally I agree with you.

I'm enjoying your journals of late.

Bonjour Wyatt
Hello Wyatt

Ca Va?
Are you ok?

Si on peut practiquer le langue sur l'internet il y a un endroit pour ca ici A2658684

If one wants to practice french on the internet there is a place here for that.

sur l'autre main c'est possible a practiquer francais avec moi, mais je suis anglais
On the other hand it's possible to practice french with me, but I am english.

Au revoir
Goodbye

opti

Traveller in Time counting
"Well I know at least three Researchers living in france

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Echo - Yup, I hate Windows. So far I haven't really had any major trouble with the program, though a couple times it gave me some error messages, but nothing really ever came of them. Just empty threats, really. My grandma's computer seems to be full of them. What do you mean by interesting presents? They seemed pretty normal to me. A stuffed moose head to mount on a wall would be an interesting present, though. How do you know that toffee was from your friend? Someone could have left poison toffee for you. You shouldn't eat food you find on your doorstep. You also shouldn't taunt hyenas, they might eat you.

Opti - I'd love to practice French with you! I also looked at The Langauge Thing yesterday, though like TiT said, they don't seem to be very active over there at the moment.

Does any one know where I can learn bad words in French? My electronic translator and dictionaries aren't very helpful.

I don't think anyone in my family has ever received a dressing gown for Christmas. I call that Quite Interesting.

I've got a book called "Hide This French Book" - you can probably find it at your local Borders or Barnes & Noble. It's got loads of bad words in it.

I know it was a friend because she called to say she left it. When we checked our phone messages we shrugged a bit and hoped it would still be there.

I certainly agree with Traveller in Time on that one just couldn't find the words to say that in french.