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		<title>חנוכה שמח and Merry Christmas!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;ve been quite lousy about updating this blog and as you notice I&#8217;ve completely turned my webpage into a page specifically about me! I will eventually get back to focusing it on linguistics and languages but at the moment I don&#8217;t even have any time! I&#8217;ve been so busy these past few months getting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/12/14/%d7%97%d7%a0%d7%95%d7%9b%d7%94-%d7%a9%d7%9e%d7%97-and-merry-christmas/</link>
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		<title>Força, equilibri, valor i seny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past Saturday I woke up pretty late and went on the &#8220;Auxiliars de les Illes Balears&#8221; group on Facebook and saw that one of the assistants from the US who is part of a &#8220;Castellers&#8221; group invited everyone to come watch him and the Palma team he is on perform with two other groups [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/10/20/forca-equilibri-valor-i-seny/</link>
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		<title>First real week is done&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve officially ended my very first week of school this week. The only thing I can say is that I&#8217;m tired! I forgot how much 12 hours of work can do to a person! HAHAHA!  Monday was a national holiday so nothing was open and it was like another Sunday. On Tuesday I headed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/10/16/first-real-week-is-done/</link>
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		<title>Cherish the Small Things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the best videos I&#8217;ve seen in a very very long time&#8230;so beautiful&#8230;.and you could see in the audience and judges&#8217; faces that what she was depicting was very special to them as a culture&#8230;
Click on the image below to watch the video!

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		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/10/14/cherish-the-small-things/</link>
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		<title>Spain photo of the day for October 14, 2009</title>
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		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/10/14/spain-photo-of-the-day-for-october-14-2009/</link>
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		<title>Spain picture of the day for October 13, 2009</title>
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		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/10/13/spain-picture-of-the-day-for-october-13-2009/</link>
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		<title>S&#8217;Alqueria Blanca</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I woke up at a pretty reasonable time today around 8:00am so I could get ready and make my way to Plaça d&#8217;Epanya so I could take the TIB Bus to S&#8217;Alqueria Blanca. As usual I got on and immediately passed out and then was woken up in Campos to get off so I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/10/13/salqueria-blanca/</link>
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		<title>Spain picture of the day for October 12, 2009</title>
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The Virgina Flag next to the &#34;Ikurriña&#34; (Basque Flag) that says Gora Euskadi, which means &#34;Long Live the Basque Country&#34;. This photo was taken in the apartment of another assistant who lives with a Basque guy.
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		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/10/12/spain-picture-of-the-day-for-october-12-2009/</link>
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		<title>Orientation and first week of classes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scroll down to “Departure and GRE” as I’ve split my latest posts up into separate posts according to content.
On the 2nd of October we had our “auxiliares de conversación” orientation where all the English, German, and French assistants from all of the Balearic Islands (not just Mallorca) met at the cultural center, Sa Nostra, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/10/10/orientation-and-first-week-of-classes/</link>
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		<title>First two weeks in Palma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The next day (the day after I arrived in Palma) Ade (pronounced Addy) introduced me to Adela Blackford, another English assistant from Manchester, England. They were both in the process of looking for an apartment and I started my apartment hunting that day.  We went down to the center of town and had a look [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/10/10/first-two-weeks-in-palma/</link>
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		<title>Dublin and Arriving in Mallorca</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the plane to Dublin I was able to have two empty seats on both sides of me and it was really nice. Across the isle from me I met two girls who were heading to Madrid to do the same program. Once we arrived in Dublin at around 7:30am, we agreed that we would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/10/10/dublin-and-arriving-in-mallorca/</link>
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		<title>Departure and GRE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday, September 14th, I woke up and drove up to The Ohio State University campus to take my GRE test. The testing center was in the basement of a building on west campus and I was really really nervous and not very confident and taking the test. I ended up not doing so great and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/10/10/departure-and-gre/</link>
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		<title>Idle time = depression and laziness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve realized how useless I become when I&#8217;m not in school. I must get into grad school! I must! I do best when I&#8217;m busy and have a full curriculum set up for me. I&#8217;ve been so idle these past two months that I&#8217;ve become depressed and very lazy. I had to move my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/08/19/idle-time-depression-and-laziness/</link>
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		<title>GRE, Catalan, E-mails, and Sleeping Habits!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided that my sleeping habits have been the downfall to my existence. I&#8217;m a night owl and love to stay up late wasting time away and sleeping in really late. By time I get up and moving the day is well half way over for those normal people. I&#8217;m going to stop staying up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/08/05/gre-catalan-e-mails-and-sleeping-habits/</link>
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		<title>Farm Town Addiction&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;ve had no luck finding a job after applying at multiple places! I&#8217;ve come to realize that I will not be making any extra money this summer and that this coming year I will only be able to travel during my two small vacations and no more than that. I&#8217;m expecting to spend a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/07/31/farm-town-addiction/</link>
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		<title>Midsummer Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve been home in the US for about two and a half weeks now. So far I&#8217;ve visited with my grandma and my niece and nephew a lot, gone to Chicago to apply for my visa, and had a family reunion.  
I had originally planned on going to Chicago by Mega Bus last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/07/21/midsummer-update/</link>
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		<title>One Week Tomorrow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, tomorrow will mark one week since I&#8217;ve been home. I&#8217;ve actually accomplished a lot since being home. Sunday I have to drive to Chicago to get my visa on Monday. I was going to take the Megabus from Columbus to Chicago but I would have had to leave at 10:20pm on Sunday evening and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/07/10/one-week-tomorrow/</link>
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		<title>First Day Back!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My plane from Chicago to Columbus ended up being delayed another three hours (two hours + one more after getting on the plan). I ended up arriving in Columbus at 12:40am.  When I arrived my parents and my nephew, Brady, were there waiting for me. I was so gross and tired. We went and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/07/05/first-day-back/</link>
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		<title>Just in time for the 4th of Ju-ly!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey! So, I&#8217;m now back on American soil! I&#8217;m sitting in Chicago O&#8217;Hare Airport at the moment. I decided that since I have a good two hours before I leave that I will update my blog now as I don&#8217;t know when I&#8217;ll find time to do it once I&#8217;m home back in Circleville.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/07/04/just-in-time-for-the-4th-of-ju-ly/</link>
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		<title>Coming Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So last night was my last night to sleep in my bed here in Dax. Today I woke up unusually early and started to clean. After lunch I washed up all my dishes and scrubbed my kitchen. I gave back all the things I had borrowed (dishes, blankets, pillows, etc.) and then borrowed a vacuum [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/07/02/coming-home/</link>
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		<title>Down to the Nitty Gritty!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So yesterday I finished packing everything up in my two large suitcases and my little carry-on except for my computer and some other electronic stuff, the clothes for today and tomorrow, and some toiletries.  I wanted my room to be clutter free so that I could clean today. I&#8217;ve been busy wiping down shelves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/07/01/down-to-the-nitty-gritty/</link>
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		<title>Mallorca, Illes Balears</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been so busy thinking about going home and trying to get the most out of being here in France these last days that I&#8217;ve forgotten to give updates on my plans for next year. As many of you know (if you have been following my blog), I applied to teach English in Spain next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/06/30/mallorca-illes-balears/</link>
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		<title>Protected: Last Day of Les Pins</title>
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		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/06/29/last-day-of-les-pins/</link>
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		<title>Last Weekend in Dax&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So Friday night Alissa and I decided that we should end the year in the restaurant where we began the year, my favorite restaurant, L&#8217;Orange Ball. Georgia couldn&#8217;t join as as she was busy at one of her school&#8217;s Kermesse. Fernando and Isabel were having company over for dinner and so it was just Alissa [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/06/28/last-weekend-in-dax/</link>
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		<title>Nine days to go&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So tomorrow is my last day of class and I can really say that I&#8217;m not sad at all. The children over all were very cute and I&#8217;m glad I got to know them, but really I&#8217;m just one person who has come into their life for a short period of time and will move [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/06/25/nine-days-to-go/</link>
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		<title>Translation&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was wondering how someone gets into freelance translation? I have so many questions about how one becomes a translator! I know that there are VERY few schools which offer programs in translation and that the majority of translators and interpreters are normal people whom speak multiple languages at a very high level. I feel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/06/22/translation/</link>
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		<title>Grad School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing, and I mean nothing scares me more than the prospect of having to apply to graduate programs. I&#8217;m absolutely scared to death to apply to grad school! I don&#8217;t know why I have this fear of doing it but I think I&#8217;m having a lot of self doubt, that I am not capable of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/06/22/grad-school/</link>
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		<title>Kermesse &amp; Gender Roles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, in this region, as far as I know, every elementary school plans an end of the year event to raise money for the following year. They call it a &#8220;Kermesse&#8220;.   This word comes from the Dutch word  &#8221;kerk&#8221; (church) and &#8220;mis&#8221; (mass) and has developed a meaning of &#8220;festival&#8221;.  At these Kermesses, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/06/21/kermesse-gender-roles/</link>
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		<title>Photos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So if you have been following my website and blog you will know that a huge part of my website is the Wordpress platform. Within this platform there many applications and widgets for blogging and what naught and I used to have a facebook/wordpress application called &#8220;Fotobook&#8221;, which would take all my photo albums from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/06/21/photos/</link>
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		<title>Almost there!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really really hate when my schools just call me and tell me oh, these classes won&#8217;t be in today but you need to be here at this time so you can teach this ONE 45 minute class. I guess this is what I get for missing so much school. Karma really does come back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/06/17/almost-there/</link>
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		<title>Updates and face lifts!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, if you are reading this post on my blog you probably have noticed that I gave my website yet ANOTHER facelift. I thought the site would look a LOT better if it had a more minimal theme. The bright colors just make things look tacky and I think with this new theme is looks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/06/11/updates-and-face-lifts/</link>
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		<title>Wikipedia Country and Culture Challenge!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to a friend in the US about how many Americans are just SO stupid about things that citizens of other countries take for granted. I&#8217;ve been watching &#8220;The Amazing Race&#8221; pretty obsessively lately and the things that people say on their makes me so embarrassed and makes me hope that no other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/06/09/wikipedia-country-and-culture-challenge/</link>
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		<title>24 Days!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So! I only have 24 days until I&#8217;ll be on a plane going home and sleeping in my very OWN bed! Well, technically it isn&#8217;t MY bed as there is a new mattress and box springs!  But, it will be in my OWN room! I can&#8217;t wait!  Today I did the normal Tuesday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/06/09/24-days/</link>
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		<title>Omegle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, on twitter, someone I follow posted a link to Omegle, which is this site which connects you to a random person to talk. It is totally anonymous and random! So I decided to check it out thinking it would be cool of pervs and freaks but my first chat went something like this:
Stranger: hello
You: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/06/07/omegle/</link>
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		<title>Renouvellement&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I just received this e-mail:
&#8220;Vous avez postulé pour un renouvellement dans l&#8217;académie de Bordeaux. Un poste est libre dans les Pyrénées Atlantiques, à Orthez. merci de me répondre rapidement et me préciser si cela vous intéresse.
Cordialement à vous
Bernadette BERNARD
IA-IPR anglais
Académie de Bordeaux
Responsable académique du programme des assistants
de langues vivantes étrangères&#8221;
Which says that I had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/06/06/renouvellement/</link>
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		<title>Fotobook&#8230; how I hate you!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So a while back when I was learning how to integrate my Wordpress blog into my website I found out about this really cool Wordpress/Facebook application called, &#8220;Fotobook&#8221;.  Fotobook would take your Facebook albums and integrate them into your wordpress blog on &#8220;pages&#8221; to make you Facebook photo albums viewable on your website.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/06/06/fotobook-how-i-hate-you/</link>
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		<title>Pacts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve made a pact with myself that I will become UBER productive for the rest of my time left here in France! Here are things that I plan on accomplishing while here and some even continuing when I get back to the US!
-I’m going to read and complete “El principito” (The Little Prince in Spanish)
-I’m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/06/04/pacts/</link>
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		<title>Ongi Etorri!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click the image below to start listening to the first episode of TheGlossophile podcast entitled, “Ongi Etorri”!

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		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/06/01/ongi-etorri/</link>
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		<title>Twitteraz obsesioak joa nago! Maite dut!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I’ve just become addicted and obsessed with Twitter! I don’t know why? I just watched this really hilarious video about and even though it’s totally true I’m still obsessed with writing tweets! I even downloaded this firefox extension where one can update their twitter by typing in the address bar and submiting it there. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/05/27/twitteraz-obsesioak-joa-nago-maite-dut/</link>
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		<title>Andereak eta Jaunak Donibane Lohizunera etorri dugu!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, Alissa and I took a 12h45 train to the Basque town of Donibane Lohizune, known in French as St. Jean-de-Luz. We arrived there around 14h00 and after finding a bathroom we decided to visit the town of Ziburu (Fr. Ciboure) to visit to Zokoako Forta (Socoa Fort) but after walking for a good 20 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/05/22/andereak-eta-jaunak-donibane-lohizunera-etorri-dugu/</link>
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		<title>Millénium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, I and the other assitants had planned to go to the beach at Capbreton but since it was a bit chilly and cloudy we decided last night that we would have lunch at the Spaniard’s place, Fernando and Isabel, and then go see a movie at the movie theatre. Today was a holiday in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/05/21/millenium/</link>
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		<title>Update!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, like I always do, I haven’t been on the ball updating my blog! I need to keep up with it I promise! This is an update of my life, like you care really!
Parents came to France!
During the second half of my Easter break my parents came and visited France! They arrived on the 19th [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/05/20/update/</link>
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		<title>Les Illes Balears</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night as I was reading through the last chapters of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince I had some questions about some events in the book that I needed immediate answers to. I went online and as per routine I automatically went to my e-mail. I saw an e-mail from a familiar address which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/05/08/les-illes-balears/</link>
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		<title>Beware the Lonely Backpacker!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
As I’ve spent more down time at this hostel than any other hostel I’ve ever stayed at andI’ve had time to observe and reflect on an ongoing phenomena of social interaction. It has to do with lonely single travelers who stay in hostels. Everyone knows that hostels are great places to meet other backpackers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/04/18/beware-the-lonely-backpacker/</link>
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		<title>Endangered Languages and Language Conservation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think that because I want to go into the field of linguistic anthropology (ethnography) and language documentation of endangered languages I’m going to gear my site towards focusing on the lesser known languages of the world and those that actually need learning! There are TONS of links to sites where one can learn French, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/04/16/endangered-languages-and-language-conservation/</link>
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		<title>Alcoholism in France</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So this afternoon I went into town to do a little grocery shopping and to go with Will, an assistant from Hawai’i to get a tattoo that he has been talking about getting ever since the beginning of the year. He ended up getting the Dax City Seal (Blason in French) on his left outter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/04/14/alcoholism-in-france/</link>
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		<title>One year 6 months 12 days 21 hours 18 minutes and 9 seconds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow! The internet is really really scary! By putting my name into google search I found two old blogs! One was going to be a Basque Tutorial blog but I deleted it and the other I’m working on trying to get rid of, but I need to figure out what e-mail I used to create [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/04/13/one-year-6-months-12-days-21-hours-18-minutes-and-9-seconds/</link>
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		<title>Winter Vacation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I can never keep up with my blog and I’m really sick of only updating it like once a month! I need to be more disciplined and update it like every three days or something, at least once a week!
With that said, here we go!
Alissa and I had been planning a trip since December [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/04/12/winter-vacation/</link>
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		<title>Les Vacances de Printemps et Pâques….</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The end of yesterday marked the beginning of the spring vacation for Zone C, which include the Académies de Bordeaux, Paris, Créteil, and Versailles. Our vacation runs until the 27th of April when we must then return back to school to teach for the final 9 weeks. These final 9 weeks are only for those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/04/11/les-vacances-de-printemps-et-paques%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>Hold Your Horses It&#8217;s Coming!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I haven’t written in forever and even though it’s been since, what, February, I am currently working on journaling my whole winter vacation to Italy, Greece, and Turkey. I’ve been busy being absolutely downright ill with bronchitis, allergies, and sinus infection. I went to the doctor last Friday and he gave me antibiotics, cough [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/04/06/hold-your-horses-its-coming/</link>
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		<title>Slumping it Up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So lately I’ve been in a real slump. I’ve just gotten sooo lazy here in France. The laid back lifestyle plus the small hours that we must work every week make it hard to slide right into a coma. The month of January really hasn’t been all that active except we had a devastating storm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/02/04/slumping-it-up/</link>
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		<title>25 Random Things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. I&#8217;m one of the most indecisive people in the world and can hardly ever make up my mind.
2. I&#8217;m impatient and hating waiting on others to make up their minds.
3. I&#8217;m more like my father than I like to admit and, like him, I love to have everything planned out ahead of time even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/01/29/25-random-things/</link>
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		<title>I like to burn the kitchen down when I cook…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank God for flame retardant treated wood shelves! I decided to make some fries and croque monsieur this evening and since I didn’t have enough frozen fries I decided to cut some up from a potato. I knew I had let the oil get too hot! Here in France I don’t have a fryer so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/01/14/i-like-to-burn-the-kitchen-down-when-i-cook%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>Il neige&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well,  it is finally snowing here in Les Landes! So I was under the impression that it would never snow but it is actually snowing! There is about 1/4″ of snow on the ground and the kids are running around like they have never seen snow in their life!! It is really great! It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/01/08/il-neige/</link>
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		<title>Bonne Année est Meilleurs Voeux!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year everyone!
So Christmas and New Years as come and gone and we are in a new year. I’m not really good at keeping up on my website or updating my blog! It’s a bit “pénible”!  I have so much time on my hands here and I’d rather lay around and do nothing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2009/01/07/bonne-annee-est-meilleurs-voeux/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s beginning to look a lot like Christmas&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I haven’t written in a while and I thought that I should!
So as the city of Dax prepares for Christmas by hanging up snow flake lights and goblet-looking-type-thing lights and begins playing it’s Christmas and sometimes NOT so Christmas music (i.e. Akon) on loud speakers throughout the city on market days, I can’t help [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/12/11/its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-christmas/</link>
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I’m not trying to insult anyone’s intelligence when I say that France does NOT celebrate Thanksgiving, but they don’t.  The reason that Canada and the US celebrate it is beacause people from Great Britain made a pilgrimage from the British Isles to the Americas. They suffered a great loss in the winter and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/12/02/happy-thanksgiving/</link>
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		<title>Ça y est, j’ai reçu ma carte de séjour….cela me rend heureux..mais je sens toujours triste!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday was just another day in Dax as an English assistant. I went to school, taught, and came home and j’ai glandé toute la reste de la soirée (basically, lazed about). Yesterday was a very very long day and was soo exhausting. I feel that my Tuesdays are always so exhausting!  I got up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/11/26/ca-y-est-j%e2%80%99ai-recu-ma-carte-de-sejour%e2%80%a6cela-me-rend-heureuxmais-je-sens-toujours-triste/</link>
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		<title>Qu&#8217;il pleut&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right now it is pouring rain outside! It’s about 50˚/53˚. I just got back from celebrating Will’s birthday at Isabel and Fernando’s apartment. It was nice b/c Fernando came and got us from the residence hall and brought us back since it was raining so hard. This is the strongest I have seen the wind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/11/21/quil-pleut/</link>
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		<title>Sick&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started feeling really ill yesterday and I went to bed feeling like crap and woke up today at around 2:30 in the afternoon feeling even worse. I have sort of cold/sinus infection and it is really annoying. I hate feeling ill and nothing is worse than waking up in the morning feeling like complete [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/11/20/sick/</link>
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		<title>Là, je suis claqué!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m exhausted today! Today was a long day.  I got up at 6:30, which was hard considering I was up until 2:00am talking to dad on gmail chat about my plans after this year.  I had to catch a bus at 7:22am to get to my first school, which is the furthest from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/11/19/la-je-suis-claque/</link>
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		<title>Enfin… (Finally)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it has been over a month since I have last written and I don’t think I’m even capable of telling everything that has happened but I will try to cram everything in.
The monday after my grandfather passed way we had our orientation with all the other assistants.  There are a few Spanish assistants [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/11/18/enfin%e2%80%a6-finally/</link>
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		<title>La Tristesse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the past few days haven’t been my best days in France, which I will get to in a bit. Tuesday we met with Mme. Dubroca to go to open a bank account. Alissa (the Canadian), Georgia (the Jamaican), and I all got our bank accounts open and now will have a French bank card [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/10/05/la-tristesse/</link>
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		<title>Dax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I’ve been in France for a good two weeks tomorrow.  A lot has happened since I’ve arrived in the south west part of the country.  Last tuesday I took the train from Paris to Dax where my coordinator, Madame Dubroca, met me at the train station. I had reserved a night at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/10/01/dax/</link>
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		<title>Arrival in France</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am currently on the train from Paris heading to the final destination of Hendaye. I’m going to be getting off at Dax so that my contact person who is in charge of me can pick me up and take me to the small town of Soustons where I’ll be teaching. I was originally going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/09/23/arrival-in-france/</link>
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		<title>En route</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is funny that I titled this entry as an English/French phrase that is used quite frequently in both languages! I’m currently sitting in Chicago O’Hare airport having just flown from  Columbus, Ohio. The plane ride was a bit bumpy and there was tons of turbulence but we got onto the ground all right. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/09/18/en-route/</link>
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		<title>OMG Ça y est!!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok so I decided to stay up so that it was morning over in France and try and get a hold of my contact, Marie-Claude and I got a hold of her! SHE WAS SOOO NICE! She kept saying that I was welcome in France and that everything would be ok and that she is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/09/08/omg-ca-y-est/</link>
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		<title>Touch up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I invited my friend Joan down to see my little town of Circleville yesterday and to hang out. I showed her what my life was like growing up in Circleville and I really think she enjoyed herself. I went up with her to Columbus to stay the night with her. We ended up going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/09/07/touch-up/</link>
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		<title>Bonjour Paris!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I’ve made a tentative “plan” for when I visit Paris.  This time around I’m going to be über-tourist and I’m going to see everything that I’ve always wanted to see.  This is tentative and obviously a very loose schedule! If you have any recommendations of things to see or any suggestions at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/09/05/bonjour-paris/</link>
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		<title>Hace mucho tiempo que lo practico!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Este post es para practicar mi español! Hace demasiado tiempo que lo hablo. Creo que voy hacer la programa de assistente de idioma en España en el proximo año! Quiero merjorar mi español! Hace casi cuatro año que hago cursos de español! No creo que yo puedo escriber lo que ya hice! En Francia estudiaré [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/09/05/hace-mucho-tiempo-que-lo-practico/</link>
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		<title>Hallelujah!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got paid from my transcriber position! A wopping $4,400.00! This has been great news! Also, I received my L.L.Bean duffel bag and it is absolutely amazing! This is good news to hear to cheer me up from the horrible news I had earlier today!
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		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/09/04/hallelujah/</link>
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		<title>Quelle horreur! What a nightmare!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I stayed up late to call my school again so it would be morning there and the beginning of school and yet again there was no answer. I set my alarm to wake up at 8:30 to try and call again and I reached the directrice! She was really nice and told me she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/09/04/quelle-horreur-what-a-nightmare/</link>
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		<title>Ça y est&#8230;well, presque!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I’ve accomplished quite a bit since my last post!  As you can see I have a new blog?  Well it is the same blog but I’ve been sold back to Wordpress and I imported my blogger.com blog over to Wordpress. The thing I like best about Wordpress is that you can have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/09/03/ca-y-estwell-presque/</link>
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		<title>Sress!!! I need money!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m starting to get a little freaked out now that France is coming sooner than later. I&#8217;m worried about money a little as I haven&#8217;t been paid by my job at all and I just recently received an e-mail from the girl I work under explaining that there is only one person that works [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/08/31/sress-i-need-money/</link>
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		<title>Money makes the world go around…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So it has been a while since I last posted. I’ve been in kind of a funk lately. I haven’t update this blog and haven’t made any new Basque lessons or done any new French word of the day.
I haven’t been enthusiastic about France lately or enthusiastic about anything really. My job has not paid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/08/28/money-makes-the-world-go-around%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>Grandfather Update&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a week of failed appointments to do the heart catheterization becauase there was too much fluid my grandpa’s body, they performed the procedure today. They found out that 95% of my papaw’s heart is blocked in three arteries. They will have to do a open heart triple bypass. We are unsure at this time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/08/19/grandfather-update/</link>
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		<title>Update on my Papaw!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My grandpa has been doing a lot better. He has been stiff and very emotional. He cries and cries and there is nothing anyone can say or do to help him. He is really depressed and really wants to get out of the hospital and just go home. He is moving his left side a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/08/12/update-on-my-papaw/</link>
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		<title>2008 Olympics- Beijing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really enjoy the Olympics and always have ever since I really paid attention to them in 1996. I know there is a lot of conflict surrounding this year&#8217;s Olympics but I believe that by having them and NOT boycotting them we are able to open communications lines with multiple countries (not just China) that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/08/08/2008-olympics-beijing/</link>
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		<title>Chi-town&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After the episode with my grandpa happened on Friday I went home and waited for my parents to get home from Mt. Carmel West. I packed and got ready and then went to bed. I got up at 10:30 on Saturday, got ready and left for Columbus. I had to pick up my friend Tommy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/08/06/chi-town/</link>
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		<title>Heart Attack&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;m going to Chicago and it is a long drive I asked my grandpa if I could borrow his car and he said sure that it was no problem. My mom, dad and I went to pizza hut for dinner tonight and after I went out to my grandparents&#8217; house to pick up the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/08/02/heart-attack/</link>
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		<title>I quit&#8230;.I&#8217;m going to Chi-town!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So it has been a while since I&#8217;ve posted last. A lot has happened since then as well! I quit my job at Trimold! Yes, I&#8217;m no longer employed at the plastic factory what paid me $8.00/hr which is now I believe only $0.75 more than minimum wage. The reason I quit was because I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/07/31/i-quitim-going-to-chi-town/</link>
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		<title>Soustons&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I did finally end up getting a job at what used to be Circle Plastics but what is currently called TriMold which is a subsidiary of Honda. I actually had to go through a temp company called iForce which is really annoying but ohwell. I’ve had this week off and when I went to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2008/07/04/soustons/</link>
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		<title>CALLING ALL ROTARY EXCHANGE STUDENTS!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two women who are rebounds and who happen to be in my district started this website to connect ALL rotary youth exchange students whether or not you are Outbound, Currently on Exchange, Rebound, Host Family, whatever! The website is:
http://www.newcompass.org
Please tell every Rotary exchange student you know about this website! It could become the greatest connection [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2007/10/10/calling-all-rotary-exchange-students/</link>
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		<title>A blast from the Belgian Past&#8230;My Journal&#8230;.Part Deux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought it would be cool to publish my journal on Facebook notes so that people could read my experiences from my year in Belgium. I must first say that I am not a good journal keeper and pretty much only 1/3 of my whole year was recorded in my journal! There are lots of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2007/03/10/a-blast-from-the-belgian-pastmy-journalpart-deux/</link>
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		<title>A blast from the Belgian Past&#8230;My Journal&#8230;..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought it would be cool to publish my journal on my blog so that people could read my experiences from my year in Belgium. I must first say that I am not a good journal keeper and pretty much only 1/3 of my whole year was recorded in my journal! There are lots of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2007/03/06/a-blast-from-the-belgian-pastmy-journal/</link>
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		<title>I GOT IT!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today on this cold February day where classes were actually cancelled, I finally received an e-mail offering me a position as a Summer RA on Gibraltar Island at Stone Labs!! I&#8217;m sooo excited! Not to be too conceited or anything I did expect to get the position because I wanted it that badly and I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2007/02/15/i-got-it/</link>
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		<title>Interview&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I had my interview this morning at 8:20 over in Jones Graduate Tower. I dressed to impress wearing khakis, white shirt with a green tie and a matching green blazer. I first interviewed with Shanny who will be my boss on the island if I do get hired and she asked me general questions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2007/02/02/interview/</link>
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		<title>Gibraltar and Stone Labs&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year I received an e-mail that there were positions open for the OSU Campus&#8217; Stone Laboratory on Gibraltar Island in the Put-in-Bay Harbor on Lake Erie. Since I already had a job for the summer I didn&#8217;t think twice about applying. I deleted the e-mail and that was the end of that. I thought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theglossophile.com/blog/2007/02/01/gibraltar-and-stone-labs/</link>
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