The kid's back

In article <[email hidden]>, Michael Odom

Quoted message said:

She spent this semester in Nantes, France. We picked
her up at DFW today. So strange and wonderful to have
her home.

She couldn't bring food, but pastis and poire were okay
with the customs guys.

modom

Whazzat? I'm going to England and France in a bit. Hope to
have some time with Anne Charlet. Yeay!
--
-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> Sam I Am updated 5/16/04.

Michael Odom said:

She spent this semester in Nantes, France. We picked
her up at DFW today. So strange and wonderful to have
her home.

Imagine her thinking how strange to come home to a
different house!

Glad she's back.

nancy

On Tue, 25 May 2004 00:38:23 -0500, Michael Odom <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

She spent this semester in Nantes, France. We picked her up
at DFW today. So strange and wonderful to have her home.

She couldn't bring food, but pastis and poire were okay
with the customs guys.

After you've debriefed her, I would be curious how she was
treated as an American in France. I'm hearing some sad
stories from some of my friends back from vacations and
business trips. One refuses to make any more business trips
until things calm down over there.

Nancy Young <[email hidden]>
:"]news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

Michael Odom said:

She spent this semester in Nantes, France. We picked
her up at DFW today. So strange and wonderful to have
her home.

Imagine her thinking how strange to come home to a
different house!

Glad she's back.

nancy

I'm glad she's back. Youngest brat got home last night. He's
packing already, to go to Colorado and then on up to West
Van. He'll be back the end of July... maybe. They come and
they go. Breezing in and out. Unfortunately mine are
disruptive creatures 😉 I think I'm banning cell phones
inside the house.

Michael

--
Deathbed statement...

"Codeine . . . bourbon." ~~Tallulah Bankhead, actress, d.
December 12, 1968

Melba's Jammin said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Michael Odom said:

She spent this semester in Nantes, France. We picked
her up at DFW today. So strange and wonderful to have
her home.

She couldn't bring food, but pastis and poire were okay
with the customs guys.

modom

Whazzat? I'm going to England and France in a bit. Hope to
have some time with Anne Charlet. Yeay!

Pastis is an anise-flavored strong liquor. You put a splash
of it over an ice cube in a tallish glass and pour water
over that. You sip it in the shade on a warm day and add
more water as the glass empties. Very civilized, it is.

Poire Williams is a pear-flavored liquer. C called it a
digestif, but I think it would do wonders over vanilla ice
cream with some sort of cookie.

modom

Royal said:

On Tue, 25 May 2004 00:38:23 -0500, Michael Odom <modom@un-
koyote.com> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

She spent this semester in Nantes, France. We picked
her up at DFW today. So strange and wonderful to have
her home.

After you've debriefed her, I would be curious how she was
treated as an American in France. I'm hearing some sad
stories from some of my friends back from vacations and
business trips. One refuses to make any more business
trips until things calm down over there.

I don't know about vacationers, but my daughter has been
living and working in France since last September. She has
had no real problems of being treated poorly. She'll
occasionally get some yahoo who thinks all Americans are
George Bush avatars, but then you get those kind of idiots
everywhere. I lived there in '93/'94 and mostly found that
my attitude determined others' attitudes. The only time I
had any real problem dealing with anyone was when I was
trying to register a car I had bought, and that was
basically no different the New Jersey DMV used to treat me
when I lived there.

Of course, if you go to France and act like they aren't
worth a [censored] because they don't think and act the same way
you do, then you're in for a rough time.

Bill Ranck Blacksburg, Va.

In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

On Tue, 25 May 2004 00:38:23 -0500, Michael Odom <modom@un-

koyote.com said:

She spent this semester in Nantes, France. We picked
her up at DFW today. So strange and wonderful to have
her home.

She couldn't bring food, but pastis and poire were okay
with the customs guys.

After you've debriefed her, I would be curious how she was
treated as an American in France. I'm hearing some sad
stories from some of my friends back from vacations and
business trips. One refuses to make any more business
trips until things calm down over there.

I've a friend who lives there part time, and lives here
(California) part time. She's never had any problem being an
American in France; if anything, she says that the French
make a distinction between the American people and the
American government and have been nothing but gracious
towards her.
--
Donna A pessimist believes all women are bad. An optimist
hopes they are.

Quoted message said:

Royal said:

On Tue, 25 May 2004 00:38:23 -0500, Michael Odom <modom@un-
koyote.com> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

She spent this semester in Nantes, France. We picked
her up at DFW today. So strange and wonderful to have
her home.

After you've debriefed her, I would be curious how she
was treated as an American in France. I'm hearing some
sad stories from some of my friends back from vacations
and business trips. One refuses to make any more business
trips until things calm down over there.

I don't know about vacationers, but my daughter has been
living and working in France since last September. She has
had no real problems of being treated poorly. She'll
occasionally get some yahoo who thinks all Americans are
George Bush avatars, but then you get those kind of idiots
everywhere. I lived there in '93/'94 and mostly found that
my attitude determined others' attitudes. The only time I
had any real problem dealing with anyone was when I was
trying to register a car I had bought, and that was
basically no different the New Jersey DMV used to treat me
when I lived there.

Of course, if you go to France and act like they aren't
worth a [censored] because they don't think and act the same way
you do, then you're in for a rough time.

Bill Ranck Blacksburg, Va.

As a vacationer last year and the year before, I found I was
treated very well in France, especially in the small towns
in the south.

C reports she was treated well also in Nantes, except for
the inevitable 45-yr-old guys who made a habit of trying to
"practeece mah Engleesh" with a table of 20-yr-pld young
women at the cafes and bars. They usually couched their
rejection in nationalist terms: "Snobbish American
girls..." modom

Donna Rose said:

In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

On Tue, 25 May 2004 00:38:23 -0500, Michael Odom <modom@un-

koyote.com said:

She spent this semester in Nantes, France. We picked
her up at DFW today. So strange and wonderful to have
her home.

She couldn't bring food, but pastis and poire were okay
with the customs guys.

After you've debriefed her, I would be curious how she
was treated as an American in France. I'm hearing some
sad stories from some of my friends back from vacations
and business trips. One refuses to make any more business
trips until things calm down over there.

I've a friend who lives there part time, and lives here
(California) part time. She's never had any problem being
an American in France; if anything, she says that the
French make a distinction between the American people and
the American government and have been nothing but gracious
towards her.

I'm back for while, Mom!

We've just returned from France, [Paris and the Loire
Valley]. While we can tell Americans apart from Canadians, I
expect we all look the same to the French. We were well
received, lots of friendly folks, the world's ugliest dogs
and very busy waiters.

Harry

Nancy Young said:

Michael Odom said:

She spent this semester in Nantes, France. We picked
her up at DFW today. So strange and wonderful to have
her home.

Imagine her thinking how strange to come home to a
different house!

Heh. I remember my first year of college when this one guy
from high school came down to UVa from GaTech to visit with
a bunch of us who'd gone in-state. Sitting in the dining
hall, look up and see Gordon Green, whom I hadn't seen since
HS graduation, sitting with [censored] Gray, Jack Hicks, and Chas
Rowan. Ambled over and found that Gordon had finished exams
in GA early, driven home to NoVA, tried his key in the door
and it didn't work.

He told us that he'd rung the doorbell and the door was
opened by a complete stranger.

Turns out his folks had decided to sell the house and move
about 50 miles away to nicer digs (more land) on the spur of
the moment. The letter they sent him informing him of the
move was sitting on his dorm room desk, unopened.

Good times, good times.

Best,

Marc

MrAoD said:

Nancy Young said:

Michael Odom said:

She spent this semester in Nantes, France. We picked
her up at DFW today. So strange and wonderful to have
her home.

Imagine her thinking how strange to come home to a
different house!

Heh. I remember my first year of college when this one guy
from high school came down to UVa from GaTech to visit
with a bunch of us who'd gone in-state. Sitting in the
dining hall, look up and see Gordon Green, whom I hadn't
seen since HS graduation, sitting with [censored] Gray, Jack
Hicks, and Chas Rowan. Ambled over and found that Gordon
had finished exams in GA early, driven home to NoVA, tried
his key in the door and it didn't work.

He told us that he'd rung the doorbell and the door was
opened by a complete stranger.

Turns out his folks had decided to sell the house and move
about 50 miles away to nicer digs (more land) on the spur
of the moment. The letter they sent him informing him of
the move was sitting on his dorm room desk, unopened.

That's a funny story. But, get this, it happened to me in
the first grade. My parents, no lie, moved while I was at
school. I got off the bus and they were gone. My stepmother
was supposed to pick me up, but she got there late. Little
scary for a 6 yo.

nancy