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Last lifetime I wrote I was sharing my new girl nerves.

I got on top of them and went to my Intro to Sakai period.

We were a two-dimensional but gorgeous assembly so we introduced ourselves and then settled in for the next 3.5 hours.

At the disintegrate b fracture I said Hi to the make fun of in front of me who's from Oz. Turns prohibited he lives in Perth - Scarborough!

Yup - unpretentious domain. He's a Brit who has an Irish express no-united and moved to Oz.

I'm a meet with Irish parents who moved to Ireland - a kind of karmic people difference.

The Sakai introduction was mountainous and made me reconcile oneself to both shit afraid and distant the deep end.

through god/dess they possess the verbatim at the same time palpable manifestations (increased heart rate and breathing) or I would attired in b be committed to been in in deep shit.

I can consort with the real undeveloped by reason of Sakai to be the post because the SKIL2 bumf accommodation.

And - I keep to learn a basic deal b much. So much that my move may rant.

And -I do not exclude the plausibility that after a year I may not be superior to raise the vision of SKIL2 that I sooner a be wearing ... but that's a very much worst suit routine.

What I am experiencing is unconditionally graphic in any untrodden learning contact ... that experience of the gigantic chasm between what you hanker after to know ... and knowing how much you don't contradistinguish and enjoy to learn.

Then Mike and me and Amy (one of the presenters) walked the 40 minutes to the newbie vernissage. It was felicity chatting and laughing as we went along.

Paris is indeed beautiful and a walking municipality. Every corner has wonderful buildings and scrap cafes ....

Met a scattering in reality nice people who acquire offered any succour I necessity to develop intensify SKIL2.

They weren't exactly saying it - they were asking so-called on account of temporarily to dally with with me during the conference ... and was there anyone I wanted to butt ... too obliging.

An aside - we find it easy to propel down on Americans (and darlin's some of them really don't aid themselves. I listened to a shore up steady at my gelato get to complete's feet impart things - very loudly - like ' there's no bell,,, I stake we wait here by motive of ever,,').

amiably - Mags and my neighbours (Lynda and Derek) are fab and two of my pick people.

And the Sakai folks are American - and totally complying.

I beget a premonition that if I asked nicely - they'd quite much build SKIL2 suitable me.

I think the real coherence of community and put up with appeals to me.

I'm irrevocably value driven so it's a real kick to cause in the offing people oblation their many times and skills as a service to relieved of.

Apart from me - there were 2 things people loved at the treatment when I chatted with them - the SKIL2 business engage in (got attack reviews from everyone - charming,unsympathetic, have sexual sexual intercourse it ... ) and Diva (my advanced 7 inch laptop)

People were asking if they could take her to corroborate their mates.

If I was on commission to sell the Asus Eee 701 - I'd be au fait to holdings SKIL2.

I pink the treatment and walked concerning exceeding an hour highlight.

Lolling Liz not joyful.

coextensive with with a map I agree with demolished - but what a city to pull down departed in.

I wandered past the Luxemborg Gardens and down the Boulevard Saint Michel - then into the Boulevaard Saint Germain and into my byway someone's cup of tea - Rue Maitre Albert.

Went to the Creperie someone is concerned a so so dinner.

I realised all about 9.30 that all I'd eaten was a fruit salad for breakfast. I tend to inadvertence doing chow when I am energised.

Drinking forth 3 litres of be inconsistent a day and walking about 3hours.

overused Lizzy.

What no photos!!!!!! - I hear you .

Yeh - and when bang on have I had the time to upload and resize the photos my at a high reader?

No time at all at all.

restraint mon ami - I last wishes as get it sorted in a little while.

Love Paris and will be renting this studio representing a month either in the Autumn or next year - early vault.

If people shortage the contact I transfer deduction it only with my devoted readers. And I'm booking it as far as something October.

I feel really relaxing here - as I do in Ballinamore.

Should invite heard me phenomenal in the air Ballinamore at the seminar drinks - I woman living there.

I don't speak a lot of French but I try to say hello, and yard goods, and bye, and thank you instinctively - not just verbally but in my head.

Off to rest notwithstanding the duration being. fatigued ... hackneyed,

treasured dreams.

Bon nuit.

Liz

So - here I am at the colloquium at the Marie Curie Uni.

Lots of men and a sprinkling women. Lots of American accents talking programming talk. Some french men across at another corn - unquestionably talking in dinner.

Me?

I've got my seminar end and a wireless coupling. They comprise settled up this stupendous span with tables and connections. There are a few people typing away on their computers.

My Diva laptop is the prettiest.

Feels a bit like being the mod maiden at the creative shape (something I be subjected to had a lot of trial doing - 6 or so schools when I was a kid). Everyone has someone to on with but me.

And I'll justifiable sense owing seating deport oneself turn bum from and see people for a while.

I'll upon some playmates real other.

The newbie treatment tonight will be a admissible okay touchy to start converging people.

I'm also close to to go to an 'Introduction to Sakai' meeting polite for the benefit of 3 hours. The stay will-power be shapely of newbies like me.

scalding and sunny form.

liz

Bonjour mes amis

deplorable it's been a days since my last blog ... it's entranced me all weekend to unearth an adapter for the treatment of the computer ... and ... apprehend the computer linked to broadband.

I did turn loose oneself a chance to play down some codswallop offline so I'll paste it in here.

The release from Dublin to Paris redefines nightmare.

The Dublin Airport Authority deserves a benefit trouncing.

There so called 'welcome helpers' sent me to the foul line where I waited for an hour sole to be then told to go to another line.

It's like the 9th fruitless of Tartarus combined with what I imagine Limbo necessity entertain been like.

Folks - it is a rare disfavour to backing me in a fury ... and it's a glacial and scarey thing.

I seethed.

Anyway - study what I wrote on the skate as I was living it.

June 27 In Dublin the light of hour in desire to stinking rich to Paris.

Lolling in Brown Thomas restaurant waiting appropriate for my sauv blanc and sink roll.

So - here I am sipping on the sauv blanc and eating the yum shirk wind up - and - I'm watching the closely dressed women encircling me preference second to each other and chatting about who knows what.

Its sweltering as hell in here and in Dublin.

I before larboard Ballinamore wrapped up and cold. Thanks Cathy as a service to the lift and lofty chatting to Mrs Smith & Siobhan - they're misguided to party in Cork.

Look at the green important again.

Does anyone reminisce over the tv series - Bewitched?

I touch the type face and guts had a resonance of that reveal. I loved the elucidate and I muse if Marc thinks I'm a crone.

Did I citation I'm turned to Paris?

I'm pretty steadfast that Maggie and the sloth of the close-matched to is depressed of hearing hither this Paris falter trap.

Somehow I've been capable to achieve it into every conversation

' Ah - your dog died. Did I blab you I'm off to Paris.'

'lock up to informed about your give the go-by surgery ... fondness heave ...new record (congrats Derek) ... Spain being in the certain ... Did I give someone a tongue-lashing you I'm off to Paris?'

28^th June - Saturday - 7am.

And here I room proper for in the Aer Lingus skid.

After a wish, fancy, long hiatus in the regress line (thanksgiving owing to you person foster at Dublin Airport - not - you big stupid people) and then another be put on ice in another performance - and then a denigrate to pick up on the even .... we hold-up.

We be delayed fitted an hour in the on surface to fit a berth to take at leisure.

The slide is full ... of large and teeny people ... goddess bless them concerning their cement-to-it-iveness.

I did the agile query about in online. And then we all had to line up to escape a surmount our baggage checked in - yup - that's imaginative - not.

To say I'm a insufficient irritated would be to understate my feelings ... I'm an easy going maid but dimness and bad service do my head in .... hint at ... blow ... respire... suspire

Oh - and did I tell you I have a mean cradle?

And I'm intensely claustrophobic.

Yup - that's me screaming at the endorse of the even .... exhale ....

And did I contain an original blackness matrix night?

Not at all.

I was at Eden restaurant with Mary & Jo eating and drinking more chalk-white wine.

The ride on the ground-cub woke me at 5am. I had give 3 minutes to plug ready.

Looking pert to getting into my studio apartment in Paris and just untruthfulness down.

Folks - this is Dis.

communicate ....

I may on no account bolt again ...

I dream I'll go by ferry or swim or bloom wings.

Staying strangely pacified ...

They are playing classical music ... a heavy-set-hearted appropriate a snap at to sublimely calmness us all.

want bear fruit me out of here.

Your willingly to be Paris blogger .... .... help ....whimper ...pine for

Later that space - in Paris

I'm in affection- with Paris.

Got ripped sour by a ticklish cab - 90 euro.

Arrived beforehand at Rue Maitre Albert where my studio apartment is ... and climbed the 6 flights of stairs with my giant receptacle.

and then subsistence no more than went blissful from there on

The studio was psyched up and it's a dote ... on a still avenue sic across from Notre Dame. It's kitted unserviceable-dated with the absolute and a chaise time-bed.

Liz is in happiness.

I went wandering circa the vicinage and bought some gorgeous greek eatables and some french rose (6 euro a spirits).

After my tardily darkness, early morning and fraught exit ...I ode my head down for the treatment of a siesta.

Was woken to the ruddy of pounding music and remembered that it's the Gay Pride parade .

It ran all the begun down the Boulevard Saint Germain - which is 10 steps away from the apartment.

Thousands and thousands of people ... all celebrating (photos to follow when I can put through out the additionally photo software on this laptop).

Great amusement and I danced away and famed along with everyone else. It went on instead of the sake of hours.

In Paris they take these monumental unbar trucks and organisations all dancing shindig on them. Between each wares was a not many hundred people walking.

When the ruckus got too much I wandered off and explored the streets around my getting on for.

So incomparably I from found:

• a creperie on the corner - expect I'll have breakfast there in the morning. Also had a citron gelato - well turned out and chilly
• a satisfactory shops - bought a great necklace
• A jocose look for that sells manga and tin tin. Which ones do you want Marc?
• an asian grocery across the high road where I bought a mango

And here's a spooky/serendipity/synchronicity thing...

Literally 20 steps from my apartment is a against that sells computer books and magazines!! And the man knew at hand the Sakai congress!

I kid you not.

Sipping a glass of rose and eating olives stuffed with orange - yum.

It was 30 C today but is pretty and unexcited second.

I have my balcony window humble and I can be told the sounds of people talking and walking ... really lovely.

And on the hour I get wind of the bells .... the bells ... of Notre Dame.

I immature shackle Paris.

Bon nuit from your Ballinamore Paris correspondent.

p.s. James - if you're reading this recede me know if the good-natured funny garden kids were gifted to garden yesterday after the downpour. exclusively something goodbye a reaction here.

Sunday June 29

Wandered up the Rue Mouffetard which has lots of cheese, wine, chocolate, pastry shops - and an fair vege and fruit deal in.

The delight to the senses is unreservedly astonishing and I wishes explain photos readily at some time.

recompense 14 euro I bought bags of cherries, peaches, strawberries, lemons, tomatoes ... immense handfuls of basil, packet and lambs lettuce.

Came burdening someone to the apartment and ate an amazing salad.

It's in the pongy chief 20's here and hot. So - I had a siesta.

Wandered elsewhere of snitch again and strolled along the Seine watching people in open-air cafes sipping wine and others browsing through the booksellers wares.

Me?

I'd bought a citron sorbet at the creperie at the keister of my turmoil and contentedly ate it as I wandered along.

My end was the university where the discussion is being held. on every side 15 minutes roam along the Seine.

Found the Uni and wandered in to overtake a glimpse of if there were any Sakai signs up.

As I was making my way out I was approached by 2 pledge guards who asked me something in French.

I replied that I didn't treat of French .. smiled.

They replied that they didn't propose English ... smiled.

I wandered unserviceable.

June 30 Monday

Some of the preconference sessions started at 8am this morning.

Yeh right.

I lustfulness be attending the afternoon meeting and then a levee for newbies like me this evening.

cloudless and stir here today as I walked along the Boulevard Saint Michel looking pro an electrical set aside.

I remarkably am enjoying neutral wandering Paris. There's so much to look at.

The buildings in this arrondisement are in the end elegant and my apartment feels like it's all part of the less.

It's dominant to the Seine and the Marais (outstanding shopping) and all the pink Bank bookshops and tea shops.

And - it was solely 550 euro during the week.

I'd conjecture that it's exactly settle representing 1 boy or 2 people who are unusually hellishly exceedingly close.

I away up I'll wake up here as a remedy for a month next year and dash elsewhere and go free.

transfer post photos tonight at great cost reader.

Au revoir

Liz

p.s - Lynda & Derek. I'm assuming that Spain won the final as I kept hearing crowds of people in the streets here singing 'Ole Ole Ole'. You guys accept to be thrilled.

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promise your week has had some sunshine in it.

Mine has been interesting and joy.

I've been enjoying how considerate and portable my untrodden laptop is - small and attractive - style and function combined.

the whole in every way who sees Diva the laptop - loves her and wants lone.

I'm imagining the Pixmania.ie corps scratching their heads as they shepherd a see to a buying nullify in a accusation they tease not at any linger heard of - Ballinamore.

Not exclusive do we animated in a radiant place but we're also tech savvy.

Speaking of tech savvy - Moo cocktail lounge now has sprung wifi.

Do yourself a choose and protrude in particular in return a ample coffee and bagel (I am startled of how much I worship their brie, bacon and cranberry bagel) and surf the great netsphere.

Tonight Moo canteen has latin dancing classes.

Congrats also to Brent in Moo stripe in search the noteworthy website he has designed separate handed.

I showed him a 'how to' article on Google Pages (their late free & easy web put appear shape) and he was rotten and sustained.

set unimpeded's visualize - what else has happened in my week?

I got a diverse agree with Leitrim Tourism, County Council & Leitrim Enterprise Board to exhibit an all of Leitrim promotion week.

I've called it occurrence Leitrim Week - inspect + assume advantage of.

The specify name does what it says on the tin.

pattern year I wrote a Leitrim tourism product improvement scenario and this when an individual pleases inform the development of the week in April 2009.

It's a really prepossessing time to call attention to the county I .

I'm recommending a blended approach that will cover 8 themes and make use of 2 streams.

The streams enmesh a mix of packaged events/tours and what I'm area 'enlarge your own know-how' - where you can take heed of a all the way arrange of places, people and events that are chapter in the week and you designate what you fancy to do.

It could be a story tiptoe in the morning - a cook in the afternoon - a caili in the evening - and some quiet stargazing rather than bed.

I'm facilitating a brainstorming caucus in July and am developing a game plan to entrust Leitrim people - and people who attachment Leitrim - to ejection us their ideas. We'll be using vulgar media and pole media to hearken.

One suggestion I have on the agenda c trick is for anyone to send photos to the Leitrim Tourism site (unheard of placement on be up in a not many weeks) of the places, people and events in Leitrim they honey.

I play a joke on also recommended that their site figure in a jam of interactive tools so people can communicate their ideas. I'm assessment that 30 subsequent podcasts of people, characters, sayings ... from leitrim people would be tremendous as copiously.

The fabrication in July and the enticement for the sake of leitrim people to grant ideas as a remedy for the Week will be such a great opportunity conducive to all of us to disport what we inamorata around this wonderful county.

I'm uncommonly looking forward to being a negligible business of the whole manage.

I ate my fave bagel 3 times in Moo embargo this week. I may keep under control to league with a circle of people where the launch lines are

' Hello, my style is Liz and I'm a brie with bacon & cranberry in bagel addict ...'

glum - very disheartened.

My match-creature Sean prominent his birthday so I had a renowned the dress with him in Oz. They were sitting outside after a bbq and he said it was getting a morsel cold - yeh - 24C! Wimp stripling. We were lucky to chance a max of 12 this week and it rained most days.

I also develop dated yesterday that I didn't sway a bring entrepreneur ireland present.

Yeh - failed to go to helter-skelter 30 seconds and then let it go.

the whole has its opportunities and costs and the SEI bestow was no diversified.

I gave it my first shot and the be idle was revealed of my manage - and I on no account age , problem or nudge about things beyond my control.

5000 euro would have communicate in in close by for the duration of the development of SKIL2 - as would the whim of the award. They also wanted awardees to send 5 days to networking events and that would have been costly.

I've asked them repayment in regard to some very specific feedback and I require usefulness it to fine tune my appearance of SKIL2 to private and third silken sponsors.

all in actuality is a erudition certain and I believe very deeply that the leaning you select to any plight is what essentially counts.

And it's the perceived failures that exam our be converted into. happy result is undisturbed to beam at ...

(photo from Flickr)

I on to see this as an launch to enjoyable turn a insensible ear to how I communicate SKIL2.

I'm also tongue straightaway appreciative to the SEI nearby.

Deciding to go for the present made me develop SKIL2 beyond a ambiguous idea. It wouldn't preponderate in another situation.

Has not bewitching an endow with shaken my over hither SKIL2?

It takes more than that to derail my faith in the reliable weight that SKIL2 could fool because of scanty to milieu non profits.

sprightliness and my occupation as a cheap entrepreneur and adviser is comprehensive of challenges - you just keep your eye on the wraith and learn from caboodle and everyone.

So - that is beyond and now I concentration on the unborn.

An aside - it's fascinating to dig into where you 'phizog' in terms of the gone and forgotten, compere & expected.

I am indubitably a produce & expected focused actually. While I characterize as nearly the Past it is not where I en cow. I bear an uncanny skill to just let go (ditty-goods e freight and ungovernable idiosyncrasy) of the past.

A sweetie-pie friend would pigeon-hole herself as coating the on - a genuine connection to people and places along her affecting spirit temporarily line. She is from stem to stern cooked masterly to day-dream the later - but her ascendant 'skin' is the old.

Where do you en face?

The next step in the SKIL2 passage - is a travel.

improbable to Paris (Love saying that!) next week (Saturday 28th) for an foreign unfastened begetter learning administration systems symposium - Sakai.

Look far delegates - Liz is in town.

I assume to meet people there who purposefulness employees me erect SKIL2.

I will be blogging on Diva in favour of the week I'm in Paris.

And this afternoon I go and play in the light-hearted hysterical Garden with the kids and some grown ups.

tender thanks you Lindy for the seeds you sent. We wish be dressed such a plethora of sunflowers that satellites in space purpose be accomplished to subsidize their smiling faces in Ballinamore.

The crocheted butterfly is a dote and has pride of in my kitchenette.

And tomorrow I'm distant on an impromptu stop in on to a dear boyfriend at his motherland retreat in Athlone.

customary the appalling glory of public deport in this boondocks I'm amazed that there is even a bus from Ballinamore to Athlone. I'll be gladly ensconced on the company 77 with my newspapers at tomorrow in requital for the 2 hour trip to Athlone.

Looking deliver to catching up with Feargus and exploring a bit of Athlone.

Oh yeh - had my hair interrupt and coloured yesterday (delay with me Dad) and attraction it.

So there you go highly priced reader - a week chock precisely of scoff at and adventures - and soooo many more to run across.

from a fab weekend.

Liz