Euro 2008

Congrats to Spain on winning the Euro 2008!
I'm at my new job now and currently working with a man who can honestly say he hails from all over the world. He's gotten me interested in the Euro Cup and although I never watched a game (hooray for no cable TV at the new place!) I had been reading blogs and following in the (non-US) news. From this, I now know that this is a big deal for Spain, so really, congrats.
I wasn't quite sure who to be rooting for as I have a Spanish friend in Madrid and a French friend in Germany and was torn, but in the end, I liked Spain's story more, so I'm glad they finally got it.

This is old news now, but in my moving and new job craziness, I've not blogged for awhile, but let it be known that I did not let it go unnoticed! This story of the couple in France who had a divorce granted on grounds that the woman did not possess essential qualities. I've done a lot of thinking and talking and blog reading on this and don't think I can add much more to the already prolific amounts of information/questions surrounding this except to say that I'm surprised by my French friends. The story was pointed out to me by a friend that I am quite close to in France and after I'd done some reading, I asked her what she thought. She wouldn't say. I was surprised; as I mentioned, we are close friends and she is not the type of girl to keep her mouth tightly closed on anything and so, as I said, I was surprised, shocked even when she didn't want to share her opinion. So I asked another French friend who would say nothing more than repeat the juridical opinion to me (she's a lawyer), so instead we had a conversation about the difference between divorce and annulment in the United States and France. An enlightening conversation nonetheless.
So that's all I've got to say about that. Why don't my friends want to talk about it? Bizarre.

One last note, I've been doing some research into the sites that TV5 has up for Professors and students of French and they are really great. If anyone out there is looking for a way to improve French skills, go to apprendre.tv to check out TV5's resources.

A plus tard,