sydney voit le monde

week 1
je suis un vrai lapin - i am like a rabbit (dinner)
ça suffit or c'était parfait - never je suis plein (dinner)
une sucette - a pacifier (nomoprix)
quand on n'a pas la tête, on a les jambes - when you don't ahve your head, you have your legs to get up and fix it (dinner)
un poil - hair, arm or animal (class)
un cheveu - hair, from the head (class)
accueillant(e) - welcoming (fiche famille d'hébergement)
un montre - wristwatch (châtelet mall)
un porte bloc - clip board (bhv)
s'emprêter - to be disappointed in oneself (dinner)
avoir des rigoles - to have the giggles (dinner)
j'ai rien de plus petit - i have nothing smaller (dr h)
une portefeuille - wallet (dinner)
digérer - to digest (lunch)
un achat - purchase (fnac)
une noisette - hazelnut (class)
maudire - to lie, to swear (class)
un spray coiffant - hairspray (auchan)
a emporter - to go, food (pomme de pain)
la salle de culte - cultural hall (stake conference)
un huissier - usher (stake conference)
faire de contancting - to go contacting (stake conference)
le berger - shepherd (hymn)

week 2
la pouce - thumb (olivia)
le banc - bench (kayla and maddie)
la portefeuille - wallet (carine)
las(se) - weary (class)
sois sage - be good (dr h)
je rigole - i'm joking (nate)
je te défis - i dare you (nate)
tout à fait - actually (fromagerie)
j'avais tres peur - not beaucoup de peur (mme dard)
rendre - surrender (wwii museum)
l'ablution - consecration (church)
l'onction - annointment (church)
la dotation - endowment (church)
le scellement - sealing, temple marriage (church)
pardonner - to forgive (church)
un épreuve - test, trial (church)
receler - to conceal (word game)
chariot de supermarché - shopping cart (franprix)
agression - invasion (wwii memorial)
voiler - to cover, conceal (wwii memorial)
rattacher - to link up, unite (wwii memorial)
souscriver - to subscribe (wwii poster)
éclairage d'alêrte - alarm lights (wwii memorial)
le caoutchouc - rubber (wwii memorial)
les jumelles - bioculars (wwii memorial)
hobitisation - still looking for this! (wwii memorial)

week 3
une nuit blanche - stay up all night (dr h)
un peu près - "ish" (class)
l'esprit - mind (dr h)
un pepin - seed (dinner)
le violon - older version of a violin (cluny)
la cistre - ancestor of guitar (cluny)
la une - the one, metro, always feminine (dr h)
comme à convient - conveniently (dr h)
pochotheque - pocketbook, a specific brand (gibert jeune)
l'eau oxygéné - bleach (volunteering)
un diacre - deacon (frère euvrard)
un prêtre - priest (frère euvrard)
numero postale - zip code (taxi)
une religieuse - cream puff pastry ♡
un financier - small almond cake
un pieton - pedestrian (street sign)
un fond - la signification (class)
s/ - sur (street sign)
nommer - nominate (word game)
verrouillé - locked (computer)
batterie, pile - battery (monoprix)
brancher - connect (computer)
machoire - jaw (class)
un potager - vegetable garden (poem)
cuieller - to gather (poem)

week 4
un barbe - beard (cori)
barde à papa - cotton candy (cori)
s'en aller - to leave (dr h)
va-t'en - get lost, scram (dr h)
tiens - huh (dinner)
loisir - leisure (dinner)
malins - clever demons/devils (class)
un parí - bet (dr h)
malgré - in spite of (dr h)
ramener - to bring back (review)
mengager - to promise (poem)
ouvre l'oeil - keep your eye open, keep a watch (dr h)
tromper - to fool (dinner)
se tromper - to make a mistake (dinner)
je me suis trompé - i made a mistake (dinner)
filer - to flee (class)
parvenir - to manage (class)
la risée - the laughing stock (dinner)
hor-la-loi - outlaw (dr h)
dédale - maze (poem)
je m'en fiche - i don't care (review)
evêque - bishop (church)
greffier - clerk (church)
ternir - to deteriorate (class)

week 5
le teint - coloring (class)
hélas - alas (class)
plus me plaît - it pleases me more (dinner)
ainsi - therefore, thereby (nate)
quant a - regarding, with regards to (nate)
les deux filles - girls, what madame dard calls us
prêt-a-porter - ready to wear (stores)
la licorne - unicorne (cluny)
distributeur - dispenser (metro)
portes palières - landing doors (metro)
entraver - impede, obstruct (metro)
poussette - stroller (bus)
deplié(e) - unfolded (bus)
gabarit - template, gauge (bus)
genou, genoux - knee, knees (bus)
gêner - hinder (bus)
contondant - blunt (dinner)
coupant - sharp, cutting, biting (dinner)
électroménager - appliances (dinner)
un miroir - glaze (dinner)
une sauce - dressing, gravy, anything sauce-like (dinner)
les appétits - chives (dinner)
et il arriva que - and it came to pass (book of mormon)
veillée de noël- christmas eve (church)
apprentissage - discipleship, apprenticeship (church)

week 6
viens et suis-moi - come follow me (hymns)
bénédictions - blessings (church)
les apôtres - apostles (church)
s'agir - to be about, always conjugated in the singluar (class)
les impôts - taxes (dinner)
approbation - approval (dinner)
croign - a fruit like a pear, but more bitter (dinner)
toutes à la fois - all at once, at the same time (dinner)
je me suis brisé(e) - i was exhausted (dinner)
ailleurs - somewhere else (dinner)
embarras - an obstacle (class)
les fonds - money, funds (class)
orgueil - pride (dinner)
la censure - censorship (class)
ouï - sense of hearing (class)
la superstition - superstition, when referring to the enlightenment it is talking about religion (dr e)
la dette - debt (dinner)
experience - experience or experiment (dinner)
mettre en cause - to question (dr e)
écrits epistolaires - correspondance (dr e)
naïveté - innocence (dr e)
faire semblant -pretend (class)
folâtrer - to play (class)
l'étalage - exposition (class)

week 7
croyances - beliefs (church)
la societé de secours - relief society (church)
la prêtrise - priesthood (church)
révérence - reverence (church)
la primaire - primary (church)
une caprice - fantasy, desire (class)
précepteur - teacher (dinner)
un vignoble - vineyard (dinner)
déguster - savor (dinner)
affreux - awful (dinner)
un néant - nothingness (class)
persane - persian (class)
paysan, paysanne - someone who lives in the country (dinner)
absolument no - over my dead body (dinner)
amorcer - to start, initiate (dinner)
c'est dingue - that's crazy (dinner)
une chose - thing, could be immaterial (dinner)
une truque - thing, usually always material (dinner)
cool - cool like hippy, laid-back (dinner)
chouette - cool like neat, fascinating (dinner)
flippant - creepy (movie)
j'ai trompé mes mots - i mixed my words (dinner)
il fait doux - it is mild, weather (mme dard)
corrumpt - corrupt (class)
panne mécanique - mechanical failure (metro)

week 8
un accident voyageur grave - serious accident of a passenger (metro)
se rendre ___ - to make something; ça me rend heureuse (mme dard)
la déception - disappointment (mme dard)
un léchec - failure (class)
la réussite - success (class)
moeurs - morrays, unspoken rules that govern a society (class)
sensibilité - sensitivity (mme dard)
avouer - to admit (dinner)
une leche-botte - boot-licker or brown-noser (dr e)
inexprimable - unexplainable (dinner)
désenchanté(e) - disenchanted (dinner)
bayer - to yawn (dr e)
une baie - a yawn, a lease (dr e)
remercier pour + NOUN (church)
remercier de + VERB (church)
benis-nous - bless us (church)
aides-nous (church)
a dieu - final farewell, don't say this when leaving the house (dinner)
dans le même galère - in the same boat (natey)
baptmême - baptism (church)
sembler - to seem, to resemble, to sound (dinner)
compris, inclus - including (dinner)
twitter - to tweet (metro poster)
humoristes - comedians (metro)
une nouvelle page est ouverte - a new leaf was turned over (dinner)

week 9
un enfant abandonné - an abandoned child (newspaper)
douleur adominale - stomach pain (newspaper)
fardé(e) - made up, dolled up (book)
bête noir - black beast, something that haunts you (book)
un ennui - boredom (book)
reconquérir - regain, to win someone back (teen people magazine)
un outil - tool (book)
la prémisse - premise (class)
le socle - base, foundation (newspaper)
une socquette - ankle sock (mme dard)
abaisser - to diminish, put down, lower (mme dard)
un bac à glace - ice tray (mme dard)
bagages à main - hand luggage (mme dard)
j'en ai marre - i'm fed up, i've had it (dinner)
sommeillé(e) - sleepy, drowsy (dinner)
un coup de foudre - love at first sight (mme dard)
combler son ennui - passage of time (class)
l'écume - foam (class)
rameurs - boat rowers (class)
un auditeur - listener (mme dard)
un actionnaire - shareholder (mme dard)
la floride - florida (mme dard)
un virus - virus, i thought she was saying "vie russe" (mme dard)
les collèges de la prêtrise - the levels of priesthood (church)
gentillesse - kindness (church)

week 10
l'ivresse - drunkeness (class)
un rhume - a cold (mme dard)
un tos - a cough (mme dard)
un nez qui coule - a runny nose (mme dard)
dedans - inside (mme dard)
un hoquet - hiccup (dr e)
hoqueter - to hiccup (dr e)
le jour d'action de grâces - thanksgiving (mme dard)
éphémère - ephemeral (class)
pommes de terre en purée - mashed potatoes (mme dard)
igname, patate douce - sweet potato, yam (mme dard)
guimauve - marshmallow (mme dard)
pois chiches - garbanzo bean (mme dard)
les haricots verts - green beans (mme dard)
velouté des champignons - cream of mushroom soup (natey)
mélanger - to mix (dr e)
le four - oven (dr e)
une casserole - a pot, a pan (mme dard)
poêle - stove (mme dard)
une allumette - a match, fire (dr e)
une spatule - spatula (dr e)
râper - to grate, food (dr e)
éplucher - to peel, food (dictionary)
être sur le bon chemin - to be on the right path (church)
le collège des douze apôtres - quorum of the 12 apostles (church)

week 11
soie naturelle - pure silk (flea market)
soif de sang - thirst for blood (movie)
gémir - to moan (class)
soupire - to sigh (class)

une fable - fable (class)
plein d'espoir, optimiste - hopeful (class)

la guerre nucléaire - nuclear warfare (class)

exestentialisme - existentialism (class)

mériter - to deserve (class)

soigné - tidy (mme dard)
souligner - stress, emphasize (church)
la soirée familiale - family home evening (church)
l'expiation - the atonement (church)
amour veritable - true love (mme dard)
la reglisse - licorice (mme dard)
le fenouil - fennel (mme dard)
le foie de poulet - chicken liver (mme dard)
l'effroi - terror (mme dard)
accrocher - to hang (mme dard)
essuyer - to wipe (mme dard)
emballer - to pack (mme dard)
chemin de table - table runner (christmas market)
en laine - wool (christmas market)
la sauce barbecue - bbq sauce (disneyland)
une succette - a lollipop (disneyland)

6 septembre 2012

when we initially did this walk, we didn't realize dr h was leading us on one of our assigned walks! what a pleasant surprise for all of us :)

after meeting at the institute for an introduction meeting, we headed out to the fontaine saint-michel. i love this fountain. it's really close to both the notre dame and the latin quarter, and there are tons of cheap and yummy restaurants nearby. big fan of the greek pitas and gyros.

then we found the musée de cluny. we didn't go inside, but we went in a few times after the fact (once for art history, once for a musical performance). i loved it because there is this one room inside that is just the epitome of gothic architecture. soooo good. and there is the famous tapestry series la dame à la licorne || woman and the unicorn.

after walking behind the musée de cluny and turning down the rue du sommerard, we found the sorbonne. the sorbonne univeristy was founded in 1257 by robert de sorbon to train future theologians. this is in the latin quarter - called the latin quarter because all the theologians spoke latin. the sorbonne has a history of social unrest and riots, so now the inner courtyard and the school itself is limited to students and professors.

after walking down rue de la sorbonne, we found the collège de france. this univserity was founded in the 16th century under françois i. it was meant to be the humanist version of the super conservative sorbonne university. at this college, instead of latin, greek and hebrew were taught. now it is mostly a research institution. lectures are open to the public!

then we continued down rue de la sorbonne and found the pantheon. it was dedicated to sainte geneviève, the patron saint of paris, who according to legend saved paris from the huns in 451. as it was being finished, it was turned into the final resting place for the great men of france at the time (late 1700s), such as mirabeau, voltaire, and marat.

after the patheon, we went to the église saint-etienne-du-mont. it was originally a monastery. it was originally built in the 13th century, and remodeled during the 15th-17th centuries. it's a pretty renaissance church; you can see it in the vaults and windows. i found a statue of christ here that i really loved - he has a golden heart!

we walked along rue clovis, which reminded me of my heather. she is from clovis. :)

then dr h took us to the arènes de lutèce, which is was named after the roman city, lutecia. lutecia was the city that turned into paris. this arena was originally built at the end of the first century c.e.. it probably held plays and human-animal fights for more than 15,000 spectators. pretty impressive. it was way cool!

we ended up all together at the seine, looking out over the notre dame. it was such a perfect day for a walk. nice and sunny, not too hot, and it was good group bonding time. we sat on the seine for a half an hour, just talking and enjoying the scene. it was great.