Sunday, March 25, 2007

New look

Well, it isn't a big change, but I changed "Montana Clem"'s banner with a picture I took yesterday during a hike in the Sourdough mountains, here you can see Bozeman's city center on the right, the mountains far in the back are the Bridgers. Some of you guys may see the famous M !

The picture was taken with Sarah's camera that has a very nice Panoramic feature!
Thanks for reading "Montana Clem" and it's new look !!

-Clément

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

For Ruben

Hi there, after a long time searching how to do it... I finally found how to show the last comments! Look at the right of the screen (not next to your monitor, on the screen, right bar).
Enjoy !

Thanks for reading "Montana Clem", a blog full of posts. Almost.

Thursday, March 8, 2007

For those who doubt !


The snow has melted a bit these days, so now I can confirm that there is a freakishly giant "M" on the mountain I see from my window !
Gna !
Ok the red stuff is a bit too much.

Thanks for reading "Montana Clem" anyway, and in "Clem we trust!", understood ?

-Clément

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Welcome to America : Part One

Hi there, children and grownups ! Today we're gonna speak about stuff. To be more precise, products. In America you can find all kind of crazy goods. I want to deliver their picture to you. We'll see some surprising ones (for a Frenchie), some classics and some interesting ones, depending on your fields of interest.
Today we speak about FOOD. Oh yeah, most of the Europeans think that Americans, in general, are crazy overweight. But clearly, from what I can see in Montana, this is just a minority, not more than in France. The phenomenon must be observed in big cities... I don't know. Well, if you like peanut butter, here is a good (bad) reason to get fat as a whale. This peanut butter package is simply huge. If you don't believe me, let's compare it to some other products. Products that have a known size. As you can see on the left, we compare the size of the peanut butter to the size of a wine bottle (Menage a trois, Californian, quite disgusting wine. Impossible to drink it, so now I use it to prepare some sauces) and the size of a soy sauce pretty well know to you guys, I know you love sushis ! (You might have realized that the dispenser is GREEN !! Well in fact this is the "less sodium" version of the soy sauce, I've never seen that one in France).
Isn't that peanut stuff great ? well I like peanut butter but I don't eat it that often, so it's gonna take me a while to finish that guy !

Ok let's continue my food oddities with that couscous ! "Toasted Pine Nut" one of the three flavors I bought. The others were "Mediterranean curry" and I don't remember the last one. It's pretty good stuff, you boil some water, add the sauce bag content to it. Then you put the couscous grains into your saucepan, take it off the burner and let it sit, covered, during 5 minutes. Ready to eat !! The flavor isn't that great unfortunately, but I guess if you cook some other dishes to accompany it, well, that couscous could be great.

Thanks for reading "Montana Clem", and don't forget to wash your belly buttons !
See ya guys later.

-Clément

Friday, March 2, 2007

Bozeman, Exotic !

Tropical heat, sandy beaches, the sent of sun screen cream. Yes, Bozeman has it all, except all of the above. Today's a sunny day, quite warm, -1°C. I guess in those conditions Bozeman qualifies to be an Exotic place compared to Paris or the good old Fréjus ! Here the snow covers almost everything, it falls gently every other day to keep a good thick layer on the grass and clean walkways.
It's time for me to share, with you guys, a view of what you can see from my current apartment windows !


On the left, next to the text, the view from my "office", the room where my computer is... You can see here some other student housing buildings, the park in between is covered with snow, yep, no kidding. On the horizon you see the mountains, they are all over Bozeman. The city is located in a valley, the Gallatin Valley.
It's easy to see it but there is a big M on the mountain, on the right, just upon the building. Not very visible because of the snow... I'll take another picture when we can see it better, from nearer. This M of course means Montana, and it's facing the MSU (Montana State University)
The picture on top is form my living room's window.
The one on the top-left is form my bedroom.

That's all for now, hep don't be too demanding ! See ya later :)
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