Nathalie blogs… way too much in French (summary)

So what have I discovered this summer? That I can not do the things I do, plus keep up a blog in French and keep up a blog in English, all at once. “Americana” had a feast; “Nathalieblogs”, famine. I’m trying something new: posting a digest of my musings in French on a regular basis and add a bit about how the rest of the world (at least my little window on the world, through the French-speaking blosgosphere) is reacting to the events I write about… which would be mostly that one event – the presidential election.

Other favorites on that “Americana” blog: the rebuilding of New Orleans; French culture in the US, and any and all uniquely American phenomenons.

Starting today…

So I’m not exactly sure where this blog is going. I might as well be clear about this upfront.

I have been blogging in French for eight months now, and I had told myself I would not touch politics. Everyone’s blogging about it; I’ve written about politics for years – so I would stick to great, or bad, or strange ,or exhilarating things I’d see in this country. That’s why that blog is called Americana. Well, it turns out that the greatest/worst/strangest/most exhilarating thing since October has been the election, so I wrote mostly about politics.

This time, I will knowingly let myself go where the blog goes. We will see where it takes us. I hope we’ll like it – me, and whomever you are.