by Brian Crawford | Oct 30, 2005 | food, personal
I am currently at my friend Carlos´apartment with a group of friends. Carlos, a Mexican exchange student doing the same program that I am doing (but in English), lives on the 5th floor of a very old building near the cathedral here in Clermont-Ferrand, and in order to...
by Brian Crawford | Oct 25, 2005 | school
European accounting standards, taught in French. they’re just different enough for you to think they’re pretty much the same as in the States and then be thoroughly confused when they aren’t. And all of the French account names are boggling my inner...
by Brian Crawford | Oct 23, 2005 | nature
today my friend Damien and I climbed the Puy de Dôme; at 1464 meters tall it is the largest of the several inactive volcanoes in the Clermont-Ferrand region. It took us about two hours to hike our way up the mountain and back down again. It was a lot of fun and a good...
by Brian Crawford | Oct 10, 2005 | travel
I am back in France. The trip was long (from 8AM EST yesterday until about 5PM France time today) and arduous (highlights included sitting in a tiny plane on the runway at Pearson for an hour and a half, and sitting in the train station in Paris for a good three and a...
by Brian Crawford | Oct 8, 2005 | nature, personal
sometimes, I think, God sends you a sign. as I have posted earlier we bought a cottage in Ontario a while back. At any rate, I have been pretty much completely happy with the purchase… but I’ve always added the caveat that the one thing that I would...
