Frog Blog

i can't believe bush won again, i can't believe kerry conceded so quickly. i didn't think i'd be all that upset but i am. i have the sympathies of all my teachers and foreign friends, which is nice, but the idea of four more years with this monkey is so depressing. i wonder where i can claim political asylum?

it's back to old times with the gang here in reims. i'm glad to be back home and not carrying my big backpack or sleeping on the lincoln log pillows, but i'm not all that excited to be back in this city. E. and i were talking yesterday as we were walking into a store and the woman working in the store gave her usual "bonjour" greeting to us but because we were talking, we didn't immediately say "bonjour" back. so she rolled her eyes at us. good grief. after this i made sure to walk very close to her and make eye contact and say "bonjour" two times so she'd get my point.

i'm sick of the attitude here. i feel like the more 'tude i get, the more it turns into this self-fulfilling prophecy; i want to become the rude american stereotype and want to act more brash and not try. the thing is, we all try, but usually no one around here listens. i can't tell you how many times i ask someone: a waiter, store clerk, whatever, a question in french and they respond to me in english. as if i'm too stupid to understand. that's so unbelievably rude.

most of the time i just let it go, brush it off. i know there are always going to be rude people in life. but sometimes, like last night after kerry conceded and all of us were depressed, i just don't want to hear it from a rude person.