Life In France

Life in France

03.28.06

What’s on my mind today America, Life in France | (24)

Demonstrators poured out in the hundreds of thousands demanding fair treatment of immigrants. It worked! Senate Panel has approved the Immigration Bill. Feinstein won approval for the five-year program to permit as many as 1.5 million agriculture workers into the country. "It will provide the agriculture industry with a legal work force and offer agriculture workers a path to citizenship," she said. The vote was 11-5, with Republicans casting all the votes in opposition. Kennedy prevailed on a proposal to allow an additional 400,000 green cards for future immigrants, regardless of the industry where they find jobs. I think it is ...

01.01.06

Happy New Year from Strasbourg, France! Joy of parenting, Life in France | (1)

It is 24 minutes past the New Year, 2006! I can still see and hear the celebrations going on all around us. In France on New Years Eve it is legal to set off fireworks. And boy do they! All members of our family have been running from the front living room windows to the back kitchen windows to admire one explosion after another of color. C'est impressionant! To say the least. The air is now so think with smoke that it is sometimes hard to even see the colors of the fireworks! We have cracked some of the windows so that we can ...