nous nous

hey guys-

we need you to go ahead and start asking as many friends of yours as possible the following survey questions:

(1) To what extent does religion (such as churches, temples, mosques) have a presence on
the French university and community?
(2) Do French people think it’s a violation of sorts to even have religion present in a university setting and/or college community (which is meant to be secular)?
(3) What is the dominant religion in France and do students do anything on campus that involves religion?
(4) In France, is church and state actually separate or is it more or less a conglomeration like it is in America?

Please, try to ask as many people as possible as we need a lot of responses. Thanks guys. We would love it if you guys could have this to us by Tuesday April 10th.

MERCI BEAUCOUP!!!

he looks like a freak!

gee what a loser!

John Mayer

c'est l'amour de ma vie John Mayer

okay guys . . . sorry i couldn't be in class today but i got a flat tire on my way to campus!!! by the time i called my loser friends to come help me, i totally missed class and the oppurtunity to talk to all you guys. to make matters worse, when i went to get my new tire, they told me i had to get all my tires changed because they all sucked. needless to say, this was not a good day. it's okay cause i'm going to a snow patrol concert tomorrow in atlanta!!! so EXCITED! haha . . okay i don't know if you guys really cared to know all of that but i decided to share anyways . . . have a good WEEK EVERYONE!!!!!

My life with pictures: Chapter 1 /Student in France

Here,it's me just before i went to the ENSEIRB party, I was the presenter last year.




















Here it's a picture of when i just wake up to go to ENSEIRB; i try to make a happy face.






Ahhh.When i was cleaning my small room with my besom









It's a thing that i don't like at all : buying food from the super market. But i have to do that if i don't want to be hungry.s###

my picture under the eifl tower in Paris(12.31.2006)

pictures yay

there's a picture of me in case you forget what i look like on days that aren't tuesdays. . .

we're supposed to pick a picture that represents our house but i'm in car so much that it might as well be my house! i drive to campus in it, i drive to work, i'm usually forced to drive when i go out with my friends . . . anyways its okay cause i love my car more than i love my friends . . . haha i'm joking . . .

the picture of the parking meter represents the university of tennessee, every morning when i wake up and drive here the first and worst part of my day becomes finding a place to park. there isn't enough parking spots for everyone and you almost always end up walking from really far which makes people like me late to class. it's either that or you get tickets, which are stupid!

La religion et l'école

Hey guys!!

Je commence mon premier message en français. La prochaine fois, j'écrirai en anglais.

Le mardi dernier, nous avons parlé de la présence de la religion sur le campus. Sur cette question, la différence entre les Etats-Unis et la France m'a beaucoup surpris, et je n'imaginais pas du tout que c'était comme ça !J'ai appris qu'aux USA, il y avait des clubs et associations religieuses sur le campus. Certains étudiants distribuaient même des tracts pour communiquer leur religion. Il y a toute sorte d'églises autour du campus, ce qui permet aux étudiants de pratiquer leur religion facilement. Malgré cette diversité, il semblerait qu'il y ait une bonne tolérance et que chacun vit bien sa religion. Les débats religieux sont nombreux.

Tout ceci ne pouvait que me surprendre, car en France, la religion est un sujet beaucoup plus tabou. Bien qu'il existe des écoles privées qui intègrent des cours sur la religion, dans les écoles publiques françaises, aucun signe religieux ne doit être visible. Donc pas d’association religieuse, pas d'église sur le campus. Une loi française interdit même tout signe religieux trop distinctif dans les écoles publiques. Mais le port du voile est très bien toléré dans notre école.

En France, la religion et l'école est un sujet d'actualité. Récemment un lycée privé musulman est ouvert à Lyon malgré l'avis défavorable du recteur de Lyon.

Il s'agira d'approfondir la discussion et d'expliquer les causes des différences constatées. Nous avons d’abord évoqué la politique... A suivre.