The emigrant's destiny: The foreign country has not become home, but home has become foreign.
--Alfred Polger (d. 1955), Der Emigrant und die Heimat
Emigranten-Schicksal: Die Fremde ist nicht Heimat geworden. Aber die Heimat Fremde.
Between 2007 and 2009, I lived in Los Angeles after living in Paris for many years. My Paris blog (before and after my Los Angeles sojourn) is Rue Rude.
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"Can you explain about lunchtime?" I asked the dean at the first parents' meeting.
"Well, there's no actual lunch hour, but they can usually grab a bite between classes. And of course everyone has at least one free period a day."
"How long do they have between classes?"
"Ten minutes."
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They are taking faith and crushing it. Why? Why? When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God given rights then what’s left? The French Revolution. What’s left is a government that gives you rights. What’s left are no unalienable rights. What’s left is a government that will tell you who you are, what you’ll do and when you’ll do it. What’s left in France became the guillotine.
--Rick Santorum, candidate for the Republican presidential nomination who just won three primaries, on Wednesday
Huge strikes underway in Greece as protestors complain about government austerity measures, which are required immediately in order for the Greek government to be able to borrow money from other countries to pay its bills and not go bankrupt in weeks.
Not quite the same as the four course meal my five year old daughter gets every day at school here in France!
Posted by: Stuart Mudie | 12 September 2008 at 12:04
The two hours for lunch is different too!
Posted by: Sedulia | 13 September 2008 at 00:33
So what is the right amount of time for lunch? Who decides?
Posted by: Ken B. | 14 September 2008 at 18:13