living between 3 countries

i'm in krakow right now doing a teaching course, going to luxembourg after, then at some point to toronto for a visit and then back to luxembourg (where i need to work of course to get the money for that travel!). i was just thinking today how i really like living between these 3 countries - it's quite interesting, i do different things in each and enjoy/dislike different aspects about each (unfortunately, luxembourg has the honour of getting the most dislike - its size will always keep it lower on my list). my wallet is stuffed full with different bank and id cards!

time and change

i love to find polish music that i like, which is harder than normal because one, the most popular songs are terrible pop ballads or rock-rock (as opposed to indie rock), and two, i'm not there and can't check out new, little-known bands. here are three musicians i like a lot these days, with the songs grouped together by the theme of time and change. i like all of these most of all for their lyrics, but i think the first song has a sound that could be quite popular in north america too.

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just recently i started listening to les cowboys fringants again and realized that i like them a whole lot now. they're a very famous group from quebec who i first heard about when i did the summer bursary program in jonquiere in highschool. it's really such a shame that english canada is for the most part completely oblivious to the amazing cultural output of quebec. at least there was that wave of interest across north america when the arcade fire came on the scene...


in light of my struggles to use french everyday now (yes, i can order a coffee but practical things like 'please hem these pants' never previously entered my vocabulary), i've put together a playlist of french and sort-of-french songs that i've been listening to recently. the first is a eurovision finalist (!) that i just love (in fact it's the only one i could sing with the right accent, haha) and the rouge rouge one is worthwhile just for the educational video.


speaking of accent, the inability to roll my Rs is affecting every language i try to speak! i've already found a decent enough way to cope in polish, but for french it makes my anglophone accent 10x worse...at least i have a fun french class that i go to twice a week now :)