Eating together

[cerealjoe]

It's been a tad less than a week and I still feel like I'm in Marseille on holiday. I guess the realisation that I'm here for a year will come when I start commuting in September and when I'm back from Canada. Still, so far, it's been good to be back. I know that my parents are making efforts to feed me varied food but so far it's a good thing, a bit overwhelming but still good. I will admit that I sort of miss my simple dinners and my miso-paste based "soups", I bet that in a couple of weeks the three of us will be back to that.

The best part, obviously, is also being able to eat together like in the good old days. For me, sitting down together at the dinner table and just talking about nothing and everything is what's normal, I was really surprised when some others told me that their parents just gave them food and went to do other things or just watch telly. Maybe that's why I have problems eating standing up. Some habits are hard to get rid of. The other good thing is that we can eat outside. The other day there was a storm that was announced, in the end we only got about three five-minute showers, and the sky had the most amazing clouds. There were at least three varieties... and hey, I'm an official cloudspotter, that's exiting!

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U.S. rant

[pnolan.livejournal.com]

In the U.S. eating on the run is all part and parcel of our unhealthy obsession with junk food and disrespect for really caring about what we eat. Rich and poor alike over here "just don't have enough time" to prepare healthy food and sit down together. So . . we have lots of fat people (kids included), and lots of families that don't do family stuff. Everyone is too busy making money and being selfish!

By the way, please forgive me, but I'm confused by where you are living now. School in France? With parents or on your own? You are such a traveler!

Re: U.S. rant

[cerealjoe.livejournal.com]

Right now I'm back in France for a year and I had the choice between staying with my parents (which is ok because their house has two non-communicating floors and they're rather cool about me doing whatever I want) and commuting to Toulon every day or finding a flat in Toulon (and having to deal with getting electricity/internet/etc. of which I have painful memories of when I moved out years ago).

So yeah, basically I am willingly "moving back" in with my parents but if something goes wrong, I can always move to another flat.