j0z3ph

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Hey, I'm Joseph 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈 based in Paris🗼 Eurovision addict, travel bug, language lover, lapsed Esperantist, cat person 😺

Two small snowmen seen from behind on the Pont de Bir-Hakeim looking at the Eiffel Tower against a grey sky that hides the very top of the tower.
A plane parked at LPA airport at sunrise, seen from the terminal window. Luggage is being transported to the plane on a small truck, and a few of the ground crew can be seen wearing bright reflective vests. Another plane can be seen taking off in the background.
A well-worn €5 bill
An adorable kitten, possibly a tabby-calico mix, lying on a stone wall with the sea blurred in the background.
A mostly white cat with brown/grey patches poses beautifully for the camera. It has pale yellow/green eyes and its left ear is missing.
A white and grey cat sleeps on a chair under a restaurant table, his white back paws and dark grey tail dangling prominently off the front of the seat.
A grey tabby cat, missing the tip of its left ear, lies on its side looking at me, paws pointed forward, in an old stone building with blue sky visible where the roof and a window once were. Tall greenery has grown inside, behind where the cat is lying.
Morris, a long-haired orange tabby, looks at the camera as he sits at the dining room table with a coffee cup in front of him. His fluffy tail curls up over the armrest of the chair.
Two women, seen from behind, stand on the Pont de Bir-Hakeim bridge facing the Eiffel Tower. One of them is wearing a fancy dress, possibly a wedding gown, and holds a string of colorful balloons.
Lola, a young grey and white cat, sits on a counter with a well stocked bar behind her and looks at me with her piercing eyes.
Beautiful blue sky over an uncrowded and seemingly endless sandy beach with the ocean to the right. A few people can be seen walking far ahead of me.
An orange and white tabby and a black tuxedo cat seen from behind sitting next to each other on a bench on a house porch overlooking a lawn, pine trees and a country lane.
Reggie, a senior orange and white tabby with a scar on his nose, sits in front of a window looking at us with a lawn and greenery in the background.
Yours truly looking overexcited and holding up a FRANCE Eurovision fan scarf
A calico cat lies on a stone ledge painted in colors similar to its fur. In the background to the left, a rocky cliff and the blue sea down below.
Cover of the book "Teach Your Cat Irish" by Anne Cakebread. The cover is green with a cute illustration of a black cat's face in a white circle.
In Dublin after dark, on a large round screen in the street, we see it's still daylight in Philadephia where a small group of curious people smile back at us. We see the back of a guy on the Dublin side waving at the screen.
Yours truly standing below the Oscar Wilde statue in Dublin's Merrion Square Park. Wilde reclines nonchalantly on a boulder.
Yours truly sitting on a blue bench in the Malahide Castle gardens. The back of the bench is in the shape of a blue butterfly towering above me.
A swimming pool at dusk surrounded by empty, backlit sun loungers at a small resort. An inflatable tube ring and a pool mattress, both in rainbow colors, float in the water along with a few small rubber balls. The sky, clouds, and palm trees at the back are reflected in the pool.
Gabbie, a dark grey cat with black stripes, a white bib, green eyes and long whiskers looks at the camera as she sits in a Paris apartment window with green and yellow leaves in the background.
Paris night photo. Reflections from inside an RER C train are visible in the window through which the illuminated Eiffel Tower can be seen.
Photo of a cute little ceramic penguin made and painted by my friend Jane. Colorful blurred Christmas tree lights in the background.
Duolingo Greek course screenshot. The illustrated character Lily, very thin, dressed in purple, and with purple hair, asked me to translate the phrase "the soup is pink" from Greek into English.
Cover of the book "Les mots disparus de Pierre Larousse" : Toute la saveur des mots du XIXe siècle aujourd'hui oubliés. Published in October 2024 by Larousse.
Duolingo screenshot. The character Bea looks cheekily at the phrase "Ubi sunt sepulchra?" = Where are the graves?
Duolingo screenshot. Translate into Spanish: "Don't talk to your washing machine, [sic] it's strange."
Paris. In the foreground, grey rooftops, dark apartment windows, and a few bare tree branches. In the center, a kilometer or two away, the Eiffel Tower rises up over the city. The setting sun has turned the sky and clouds every shade of orange, illuminating the background, and can even be seen through the upper part of the Eiffel Tower itself.
A giant teddy bear dressed in a red flannel shirt is sitting at a table outside a Paris café decorated for Christmas. On the table there is a drink (probably a Christmas beer), an ashtray containing a cigarette butt and a used Paris metro ticket, and a sign saying "J'attends le Père Noël" (I'm waiting for Santa) with a smiley face.
Duolingo screenshot. The illustrated character Lucy, an imposing woman of a certain age dressed in orange and wearing her salt and pepper hair in a bun, saucily looks out with a degree of satisfaction as I correctly translated into Spanish her sentence "When it's hot, I shave my beard" (Cuando hace calor me afeito la barba)
Le livre "Mais où faire pipi à Paris" par Cécile Briand vu au rayon "idées cadeaux" à la fnac
Duolingo screenshot. Translate this sentence (from Spanish into English): "The sheep were playing violins at the lake"
A grey tiger cat glances sideways at the camera. The top of its left ear is missing. A Greek statue, temple columns, a few trees and blue sky are blurred in the background.
Colorful photo of the side of an Air France plane and clouds above, taken while boarding. The AIRFRANCE logo is painted along the side.
I completed 1832 Spanish lessons on Duolingo so far in 2024