friday 15th
today we all decided to go for a wonder around etc, me n mary knocked for grace and was approched by a lad called 'pap', i thought he sed 'puff' and thought he was trying to palm off drugs as he spoke to me in french!haha but me n mary then explained we were english and knew no french but he carried on talking, somthing about me and a fiesta, which i later found out was a party, i dunno but yea mary got his number, i think he was just being frendly and all. that day we went for a walk, trying to find the train station and went into a pharmarcie coz i had a hurty tooth, needed sum mouthwash and crap, and decided that night we shud actually go out. We all decided to give pap a text, invite him out for a drink, maybe bring a frend and he was up for that. we decided to go to the local bar 'emporiun gallorium'..ha, erm and met pap and his frend eddy. i ordered my first round of drinks without problem and was quite chuffed with meself! we all managed to maintain a half decent conversation with pap and his mate, except mary, think she had one too many ha sorry mary i no.. u were 'tired' or fatigue which became a regular joke of the night. Any who i learnt one thing, its easier to speak french after a few drinks. We moved on to a club called D7, which was 10 euros to get in each but pap knew the boss and bouncer etc so got in for free! yea it wasnt very good inside, dated music, hardly any people but apparently there all in paris on a friday. after a bit of a 'boogie' with pap n co, yea pap was an interestng character, but was being sleaze of the year so we decided to call it a night. doont think we.l meet with him again but at least we can say were making frends n being social!
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Hi Liz
Took a look at your blog,
I seem to be saying the same thing to all three of you at the moment, with regards to the place that is Rouen, see extracts of comments to both Grace and Mary.....
' In Norwich you are seeing things all the time, you pass them on a daily basis, and so they fall into the background; they are so familiar. We are quite anxious creatures in reality, and we live by order, everything must have its place. We catagorise all that we see, and mentally store it in the right compartment in our brain. We impose order on everything and once we have done this then we do not have think about it any more. It is only when we see or encounter something new that we might notice it afresh.'
And ........ ' and where language breaks down there is disorder, like you say both you and Liz freeze and are unsure how to react.'
There were similar comments to Grace - ' you are in a new place, new surroundings, each view that meets your eyes is a new one, and so in your heightened state of visual sensitivity you are seeing absolutely everything. They are unfamiliar to you and so you are noticing them more.'
This is a good opportunity to get your observations down - we might move on from the original texts to a more semantic approach, based on observations, but in the meantime, take a look at either the 'strangers' text or the 'tourist gaze.'
Speak to you soon and take care
Shaun
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