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March 16, 2008:: On Country Choices:
Julie: I'm trying to think of a good name for my website. Julie in Japanland was perfect, what do yu think for this one?
Mom: No idea
Julie: How about "I Choose Countries With Suns On Their Flags."
Mom: ... Needs to be more wittier than that.
April 12:: On Nursing Homes:
Julie (to Mom and Dad): If you let me go to Thailand, I will learn two Asian languages. If I can speak Japanese and Thai I can make a lot of money. ANd if I have a lot of money, that means a nice nursing home for you guys.
June 26, 2008:: On Placement::
Althea (from email):... I'm in the rural outback...
Julie: What does God have against us? First we get sent to middle-of-nowhere Shikoku. Now your stuck in the middle of the desert Outback. And I'm going to Fixin, a town with a whooping 785 people.
:On French Grammar: 29/Aug/2008
Lèonie- Isn't it funny that a German is sitting here explaining the composition of French grammar to an American.
Julie- Yeah but it's even funnier that the American just doesn't get it.
:On English Expression:: 05/SEPT/2008
Mano: Hey Julie you want a smoke?
Julie: Nah, thanks.
Mano: You eh don not smoke in America?
Julie: Oui, but I chew gum and that is just as expensive. haha
:On State Trivia With French Folks:: 07/SEPT/2008
Julie: Okay for this part of the game, you need to name an important event or person from your perspective state. The first one is Louisiana.
French Guy: Ah Louisiana was French land, you know? But I do not know anyone from there.
French Lady 1: Ah I do! Katrina!
Julie: Um... okay. Now for New York, thats is easy.
Jean-Francois: Famous event in September 11 and famous guy is Julilli.
Julie: Uh... Giuliani but okay. Now Kentucky...
French Lady 2: OH I know Aunt Jemima!
Julie: What the heck?
:On Tipsy:: 11/SEPT/2008
Jean-Francois: Wow do I wish I had a camera right now. Julie with the big wine barrels in the backround.
Leonie: Not to mention that she is leaning on one of the barrels to stand up because she can not do it one her own. You won't tell you Mother right?
Julie: Hey hey hey I am FINE! HAHAHAHAHA
Jean-Francois: Oh of course that is why your eyes are drooping at an alarming rate and you can not stop laughing. You are just fine...
:On English Europe:: 17/SEPT/2008
English Teacher: You are all pathetic. I cqn not believe the only student who cqn name all the capitals of Europe is an American. Now lets try something different. Where is a Frenchmen from?
Student A: France
Teacher: Where is a Dutchman from?
Student A: Dutchland!
Teacher: No, no! The capital of this country is Amsterdam. Now what country is he from?
Student A: Oh of course! Hungary...
:On Children:: 30/AUGUST/2008
Jean-Francois: Sometimes I wonder why I have three children and not three dogs.
:On Comic Relief:: 18/SEPT/2008
Julie Status on Facebook: Julie Garner is missing Japan...
Zoe K.: Hey, why are you all of a sudden missing japan instead of loving france? is it the whole pool incident? because if it is i understand... i´d rather run around naked in an onsen rather than see european nut-huggers and getting kicked by the little kids. ;-)
:On Status French:: 23/SEPT/2008
Friend: How are you doing here at the school?
Julie: AHH... Tuesday is soooo hard. I am here from 8 to 6, with French Philosophy, French Literature, French History, and English IN FRENCH... for 10 hours!
Friend: Yeah it's a long day.
Julie: At this point I am just.... FRENCH-FRYED...
*seriously no pun intended when that slipped out
:On Farting Ponies:: 4/Oct/2008
*We were taken to a horse spectacle in Versailles with artisitc origins.
Alex: I do not get why all the white ponies are rolling in the dirt and getting dirty.
Julie: They want to be black like the other pony. Like Eminem.
Alex: Julie!
Julie: Holy crap, did you just hear the pony fart?
Alex: How could you miss it?
:On Breathalizer:: 1/0CT/2008
*With her daughter coming home tomorrow from her exchange to India, about 9 months early, Leonie needed a Margarita.
Leonie: You would never believe it. It my entire life, I have never been pulled over before for anything. This time I do not even get out of my driveway and they pull me over for a breathalizer test.
Julie: You were that bad?
Leonie: No in France they can pull anyone over at any time. The limit is .1% alcohol. The amazing thing is after 2 Margaritas, I passed.
Julie: UH...yeah. You're German remember?
Leonie:... with Polish blood... haha
**FOLLOW-UP**
*I gave this website to Leonie's sister a while back, and forgot about it.
:On Hearing It Through the Grapevine:: 3/OCT/2008
Leonie: So my sister tell me you have been talking about the Margarita incident on your blog...
Julie: Oh crap...
:On French Manners:: 05/OCT/2008
Julie: Everytime one of those little jerks smacks shoulders with me, cuts me off, makes a rude comment, or just acts French, I think, "I'm an in France. It's beautiful. I just saw the Eiffel Tower." But there is only so many times you can do before you just SNAP.
:On Cowboys:: 5/Oct/2008
Andrew: We went camping last year at a musical festival. Me and my good friend like to cuddle a lot. It's like the movie, oh wait, what is it?
Danielle: Brokeback Mountain?
:On Chocolate:: 6/0CT/2008
Charlotte: Julie, do you want some Chocolate?
Julie: No.
Leonie: I have never known you to turn down Chocolate.
Julie: I want to sleep tonight and there is caffeine in chocolate.
Leonie: No there is not. Chocolate is calming for the nerves.
Julie: I swear to god there is caffeine in chocolate. Only the French would believe there was not caffeine in Chocolate
:On the New Jersey of Bourgogne: 5/Oct/2008
Andrew: Yeah I take guitar lessons on Wednesdays in Chenove?
Julie: Chenove? Ew... that is definitely the ugliest part of the Dijon area.
Alex: Yeah it is like the armpit... Ahh the New Jersey of Bourgogne!
:On Where My French Is:: 9/0CT/2008
Friend: So uh... where do you live?
Julie: Oh, I live in Fixin. Do you know it? Its 15 minutes.
Friend: Ah you understand me!
Julie: Um... yeah.
Friend: On your first day, I asked you where you live and you told me 'My name is Julie Garner.'
Julie: Oh... sorry about that.
:On Mamma Mia:: 16/0CT/2008
Julie: Damn ABBA... Mamma Mia Here I go again... my my... always stuck in my head. I can not resist you... Mamma Mia!
Friend: Wow you have a great voice! You sing like Meryl Streep in the movie!
Julie: Oh no! Wow, thanks!
Friend: Yeah you would be great!
Julie: You need my English homework, don't you?
Friend: Um... yeah.
:On Eternally Lost:: 19/0CT/2008
German Guy: So let me get this straight. You are an American. You are done with high school and are only 17 years-old. You currently live in Burgundy, France, and are learning French. But you lived in Japan for a year and know Japanese. Now you are on a school trip to London, England, with those obnoxious Frenchie's over there.
Julie: That would be me. Yup.
German Guy: That is truly incredible, you know?
Julie: When we arrived in London, I saw this scribble on the walls of the tube. "Find the way you are meant to change the world." I think I have found it, or at least I have found the way I am meant to find it.
German Guy: Yeah, but you are going to be eternally lost.
:On My Luck:: 2/11/2008
Julie to friend on Facebook: SO it rains for 7 days. Mind you these 7 days were spent in Provence, France, often considered the nicest part, with sunny weather, great history, and all that. But by Day 6, I was about ready to call Noah for the Ark. On top of that, today, the day we are heading home, the sun decides to make an appearance. Too bad, we had a 6 hour drive a head of us. I had to pee so bad, they had to stop on the side of a busy highway while I christianed a bush. And then the car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. While I am at it, I may as well say that I am having a really hard time with French. Okay over and out.
:On Packages from Japan:: 6/11/2008
Leonie: I had to go all the way to the post office in the next town to pick up a package from Japan for you. Well, a present from Japan from you. And when I get there, they explain that customs went through the package and it is wide-open and I need to to look into and make sure everything is still there. I was apprehensive about that, until I look through the package and discover your present is 5 sticks of chap-stick. What the heck kind of a gift is that?
Julie: Have I ever told you about the craziness that is the Japanese?
:On Integrating:: 7/11/2008
Jean-Francois: When Charlotte came home, and your Rotary club tried to pull you from this family, do you remember?
Julie: How could I forget? It was miserable.
Leonie: Well we told them that you wanted to stay, but mostly we wanted you to stay.
Jean-Francois: And your counselor wrote on the report that you were staying because you had integrated well into the school.
Julie: HAHAHAHA... furthest from the truth!
Jean-Francois: You stayed because we want you here. Not because you like school or not. Silly Rotary...
:On Black and White:: 8/11/2008
Antoine: Is is not ironic or funny that there is now a black family in the white house?
Leonie: Antoine!
Julie: HAHAHA... at least you said and not me!
:On the Big 1-8:: 13/Nov/2008
Julie: I know I know my birthday is on Monday. But I have decided not to celebrate or do anything for it. I just wat to buy myself a watch and that will be that.
Leonie: How stupid! 18 is a big birthday in France. You become an adult. Suddenly you can drive a car, you can cast your vote, and... um... you can get sent to prison.
:On Why There Are Stupid People Everywhere:: 16/Nov/2008
Teacher: Okay we are studying the English test about the boy from Tanzania, who wants to study in America. Now who can tell me where Tanzania is?
Student A: Oh that is so easy! Australia.
Teacher: Um... no. But thank you. Try Africa. Now who can tell me why the boy might want to study in America?
Student B: Maybe he has long dreamed of going out for a true Big Mac with Brittany Spears.
Julie: Is that really what you think about America?
:On Frenchies and Germans:: 26/Nov/ 2008
Julie: Yeah my good friend, the one who lives in Germany, constantly tells us that everything is better in Germany.
Jean-Francois: It is not like that here. Leonie knows everything is better in France.
Leonie: No! Take the Economy, the cars...
Jean-Francois: Name one famous German artist.
Leonie: Yeah well name one famous French musician.
:On Fun Internet Messages With A German: 24/Nov/2008
Julie: Its sooo hard to make friends. The other exchange student speak french fluently, and the kids at my countryish school are not open minded at all
Judii: Oh man its typically french ;)
