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Coffee Conversations

If We Were Having Coffee: Art, Presentation and Doubt

February 6, 2017February 23, 2017by Veronica Lavil6 Comments on If We Were Having Coffee: Art, Presentation and Doubt
If We Were Having Coffee: Art, Presentation and Doubt

If we were having coffee, I would ask you to come to my house. I would set out a table full of cookies (or biscuits as the English and French would say) and talk about how confusing the Paris weather has been. This morning it was raining and this afternoon it decided to be sunny [...]

Coffee Conversations

If We Were Having Coffee

November 13, 2014February 6, 2017by Veronica Lavil2 Comments on If We Were Having Coffee
If We Were Having Coffee

Ahhhh Thursdays. Hello. It is almost, finally, the end of the week. Thursday has to be one of my favorite days. More than halfway done! Okay, now I feel like I am just stating the obvious. Also, today happens to be the 13th which is my favorite number and two days away from my three [...]

Coffee Conversations

If We Were Having Coffee (Or Hot Chocolate?)

November 6, 2014February 6, 2017by Veronica LavilLeave a Comment on If We Were Having Coffee (Or Hot Chocolate?)
If We Were Having Coffee (Or Hot Chocolate?)

It's Thursday, yay! If we were having coffee, I would probably have ordered (or made, depending on where we decided to chat) a hot chocolate instead. Lately, I am coffeed out (yes, I know coffeed is not a word but that is what my mother says when she can't stand coffee for a while and needs [...]

Coffee Conversations

If We Were Having Coffee (Late Edition)

October 31, 2014February 6, 2017by Veronica Lavil2 Comments on If We Were Having Coffee (Late Edition)
If We Were Having Coffee (Late Edition)

I apologize for not being able to write this on time for Thursday (my original day in posting these)! If we were having coffee... I would say that Paris is driving me crazy. I have realized that I am not the only one it has done that to. I wonder if it is the rush [...]

Coffee Conversations

If We Were Having Coffee

October 23, 2014February 6, 2017by Veronica Lavil5 Comments on If We Were Having Coffee
If We Were Having Coffee

If we were having coffee is a series I saw on Suzie81 Speaks blog, started by Part Time Monster. I thought it was a really cool concept and wanted to tag along with it. Thank you! If we were having coffee, I would probably ask you how yours was. I would ask you what flavor you got or [...]

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On the eve of my departure, I had a date between the city and I. I drank red wine from a paper cup from the windowsill of my hotel as I’d done on so many evenings from my first apartment to the last. I listened to the people going on about their lives - the neighbor singing, the people on the streets with their aperitifs, the clinking of pots and pans from an open window of someone preparing their dinner… I remembered nights dancing along the sidewalks, “took our broken hearts, put them in a drawer”, of mornings watching the sunrise from Montmartre, remembering the weeks I didn’t know where I would sleep next… and it was then that I realized that I had wanted a date between myself and the 19 year-old wide-eyed child that arrived, excitedly, to the city of her childhood dreams almost 8 years ago. Paris is the place in where I became so many things I never knew I would and could become. It’s a place where I’ve danced, sang, cried and had to rebuild myself. It’s a city that haunts my past but yet shines with her magical lumière. Every time I come here, I become more at peace with her, both the city and the lost woman I was. I’ll always thank them for making me strong 🤍 It’s a complicated love affair, Paris and I, but how can you not love a place that made you into the woman that you are today? That gave you the best people who continuously show up? I’m appreciative and grateful, though this city can drive me crazy, of what I built here. Paris will always, somehow, feel like home 🤍 https://www.instagram.com/reel/CfmqUyFrV1M/ Parisian week As I sat in the courtyard of the halls I used to roam, drinking the same coffee from the cafe where I would spend hours studying (being served by strangers because those that used to work there no longer don’t - I wonder what happened to them), I couldn’t help but wonder how one place can mean so much and be so special yet at the same time be so scary. This place will always feel like home, but to another life and another woman. Though there are so many things I would turn back time on and change, I can’t help but appreciate how far I’ve come. I’ve made a beautiful life for myself and grieved the life I thought I would have. This new one is 100x better. I get to call two of the most beautiful cities in the world home. Ti amo Parigi. Je t’aime Paris. There is something about how the light hits at sunset, no? “I grew up bilingual… the bi does not stand for two but for adiós to speaking any language correctly”… and so starts my videos that I shall call #byelingual, in which I share with you the things I’m learning about the 4 languages I speak *decently*. Might as well start making fun of the stupidities I’m learning and embarrass myself on the internet. Her story changed and better days came ( 📸 @nnsiyafirsova ) May - moved into my new apartment, turned 27, danced in Torino, dipped my toes in the sea to get burned for the first time this season, and saw friends accomplish important things in their lives 🤍

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