{"id":281,"date":"2009-10-12T15:34:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T20:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2009-10-13T00:51:14","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T05:51:14","slug":"meeting-in-the-middleand-some-pics-from-grenoble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Some new pics from Grenoble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took some photos of my new apartment today and wanted to post them up, and I will let Seth write about our rendez-vous in Geneva this last weekend&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I moved into a new apartment yesterday, sadly saying goodbye to the three lovely students who had been letting me stay with them until I could find a permanent place.  From greeting me at the door with a hug, to making me a special birthday dinner of cr\u00eapes and sparkling wine, their hospitality made my first week here very special.  I am sure that I will continue to see them, but am quite excited because I am now living in the old city center of Grenoble, around the corner from an ancient cathedral and within 100 metres of 3 different bakeries.  I am living with a university prof and her daughter, who is 15, which is great because it gives me the chance to share my meals with a family, and practice my French, but at the same time not be responsible for any babysitting.  I haven&#8217;t really gotten the chance to get to know them well yet, but they seem really interesting and are certainly very welcoming.  Now at last I can unpack my bags and officially &#8216;move in&#8217;!  My room is lovely because it has a big window to an outside courtyard, which lets in the morning sun.<\/p>\n<p>Other than moving, I have been starting to do some actual teaching at the high school, which is really exciting and a bit intimidating at the same time.  It seems that my &#8216;teacher voice&#8217; doesn&#8217;t quite work the same with 18 year olds as it did for 10 year olds!  That said, they are funny and witty and I think it is going to keep me on my toes trying to keep them entertained and learning at the same time.  I think that next week I am going to introduce them to Michael Franti, and then use that to segue into the way the French view America&#8217;s position in the Iraq war.  Some of my groups of students are very politically oriented, and I think it will be a good chance to learn more myself.<\/p>\n<p>Also in these next few weeks, I look forward to finding a bike, joining the outdoors club at the university, and taking my first trip to Winterthur to see Seth!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/dscf3509resize.JPG\" title=\"My new bedroom - lots of light!\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/dscf3509resize.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"My new bedroom - lots of light!\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/dscf3510resize.JPG\" title=\"Reading in the \u0092salon\u0092\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/dscf3510resize.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"Reading in the \u0092salon\u0092\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/dscf3511resize.JPG\" title=\"My new kitchen\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/dscf3511resize.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"My new kitchen\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/dscf3513resize.JPG\" title=\"A nice park to read in\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/dscf3513resize.JPG\" alt=\"A nice park to read in\" height=\"99\" width=\"130\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/dscf3514resize.JPG\" title=\"A square near my house\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/dscf3514resize.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"A square near my house\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took some photos of my new apartment today and wanted to post them up, and I will let Seth write about our rendez-vous in Geneva this last weekend&#8230; I moved into a new apartment yesterday, sadly saying goodbye to the three lovely students who had been letting me stay with them until I could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}