I was recently read­ing Tun­nel­ing thru’ and Rads had this great post : what’s in you bag? And even if she wouldn’t have tagged me, I’d have vol­un­teered because… well, because I have a theory.

See, to me, there are two kind of women: women who like shoes, and women who like bags. And since I wear size 9 shoes (40 for Euro­pean read­ers) — but I must also say that I’m 1.75 meter ! — I rarely get the shoes I really want. So I became a bag person.

I don’t own hun­dreds of bags. In fact, I only have one. But it took me two weeks of research before I buy it! Yeah, I’m that super­fi­cial picky. I don’t under­stand these women who carry bags the size of a pack of cig­a­rette. I mean, how would I fit my cig­a­rettes in it in the first place ? Not to men­tion all the other stuffs I have to carry with me at all time. So, let’s have a look:

The bag. bought in Zara in France a cou­ple of years ago. Big enough to carry my work fold­ers with me (I’m not gonna carry one of these ugly back­pack ! I’m not that hip­pie ya know !), black (goes with every­thing), leather-like (doesn’t get soaked every time it rains/ snow.) Pinned on the pocket of the bag, two but­tons : one with Che Guev­era, one with the Sub­com­man­dante Mar­cos. I bought them from Sir Jorge this sum­mer and I love them!

Okay, I do carry a lot of crap with me. But as you will soon real­ize, I need every sin­gle one of these items.

See, that’s what I meant. These are my work tools — you don’t want to deprive me from my work tools, do you? I have a folder per class or per stu­dents, so I carry about 5 or 6 of them a day. I also have an aston­ish­ing pile of copies at the end of the week, which I reli­giously empty from my fold­ers every week. As for pens… well, we all need pens, don’t we?

A wal­let. We all have a wal­let, don’t we? Although I do have a lot of change. Blame it on the GST/ PST taxes, which are extra in Canada. For exam­ple, a Coke is labeled at $1.50 but you end up pay­ing $1.50 plus 15% tax. Which I can’t cal­cu­late men­tally, hence the change. And cig­a­rettes… blah­blah­blah, keep on speak­ing, I’m not listening…

I’m a woman, you know. I need to have a comb in my bag (which I never use, bout I could need it!), emer­gency make-up (not that I wear much make up), lip­sticks and band-aid (that’s the white stuff).

And these are my keys, more change, two movies tick­ets for “Lions for lambs” and TV5’s pro­gram for the month (French TV) that I picked up at school.

I always carry a book because I spend a lot of time in the bus. And I need a watch, pins for my hair, coupons for the super­mar­ket etc. I just wish I wouldn’t read that fast, cause I need to carry big books to keep me busy.…

And yeah, I’m human, I eat. Cough can­dies because I speak a lot (try teach­ing 7 or 8 hours a day !), a candy and a Star­bucks oat fudge bar — my favorite.

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So, I’d like to see some ladies purses now…

• Empress Eve : a blog I’ve started to read recently… and I love it ! The author was actu­ally talk­ing about bags recently, so I’m sure she will like this tag !
• Through JoAnn Digital’s Eyes : a new blog in my feed as well! JoAnn is Dutch and she takes great pic­tures… maybe we’ll get a snap­shot of her bag?
• La Belle Sai­son: princesse is back from her blog­ging break — this is a wel­come back tag!
• A New Life In Canada : I’m sure Aiglee is quite busy since she’s mov­ing to Canada soon, but who knows!
• Mare­mag­num : another blog I dis­cov­ered recently. She got a new dig­i­tal cam­era and have been post­ing a lot of pics lately, so let’s hope we’ll get one of her bag!
• Max: my favorite Por­tuguese girl must have a quite inter­est­ing bag!
• Spy­der: I’d be curi­ous to see your bag!
• Pelf-ism is con­ta­gious: A new add to my feed, she’s fun and witty!
• So Shiok…! : she’s so funny, I bet she has a quite packed bag as well!
• The Rain In Spain: I dis­cov­ered Theresa a few months ago and I love every sin­gle one of her posts!
• A Cowboy’s Wife: come on Lori, I need to check your bag !
• Self Delu­sion Of Angela May: I know, I’m keep­ing you from work­ing… my sadis­tic side!
  

Hope I didn’t for­get any­one, but these are the ladies in my feed!

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