My Life in France

Andrea and I slept in this morning, thank goodness!  The boys left to explore Barnes &Nobles while the moms went on a walk, and Andrea a...

I cannot begin to express in words how excited I am to be able to speak French again!  If I had it my way, Andrea and Nicolas would move in ...

To fill anyone in on what I have been doing since my return to the states from Frogland, suffice it to say that I have been exceedingly busy...

After a nine hour flight during which I watched The Tourist, Burlesque, and half of Chocolat, my feet are finally touching US soil.  Amidst ...

Well, here I am in the airport.  I finally broke down and trashed my Rotary vest.  The only problem now, besides not being able to move, is ...

I rushed when I got home to eat my host grandmother's super yummy Calamars Provencale.  I was already running late.  Of course, it was m...

Despite my lack of sleep this entire week, I awoke this morning around seven to leave for Beauvais at 8h30.  Mr. and Mme. Delesalle came to ...

Chère Madison, Si tous nos students exchange ont toujours été merveilleux, toi tu exceptionnelle. Malheureusement l'heure du départ ...

Tonight was my last Rotary meeting.  Mr. Vanoverberghe started the meeting by giving me another flag, a medal, and a package which I later o...

Today was my last day of school in France.  Ever.  School technically does not finish for Lycee Saint Paul until this Saturday, and even aft...

Hugues came and picked me up from the house at 7h45.  The 1520 Rotary district conference did not take place far from home.  I was one of th...

Tonight Pascaline dropped me off in Vermelles. I went to Sabine and Christophe's first to say goodbye.  It felt bizarre to know that I w...

I ended up staying last night in the guy's room with a few other girls because we went over there to talk (all of the other girls fell a...

Tonight we went over to Pascaline's sister's house for dinner. Almost as soon as I arrived, their son Nathan invited me to go to a ...

I road the RER this morning from Paris to Versailles. In the train station, I met some super nice people from Oklahoma.  On the train itself...

I discovered this morning that because I have been accepted into an Italian language immersion program at the University of Virginia for thi...

We celebrated, belatedly compared to the US, La Fete des Meres (Mother's Day) today.   I took a train back from Lille with Paul (Germany...

Today was the last day in Lille for me for this year in France.  I met up with Maddi (Australia-whose French has either improved greatly, or...

Whenever my Economy teacher, Mme. Braun gets off topic in class, which happens quite often, she always opens and closes the parentheses. To...

One of my friends at school pointed out that I would be giving birth to my baby today if I had gotten pregnant the day of my arrival in Fran...

Today the Adamskis and I went to Paradisio, the most amazing zoo-park in the entire world! We arrived at 11h00, and immediately wanted to se...

I knew I couldn't avoid it forever, and now it has made its comeback. The infamous gastro (stomach bug) hit once again. Unfortunately ...

I only have one month left as of today.  Pauline initiated a vote today inquiring how many of my friends petitioned that I stay.  Marie rais...

I had my second Rotary presentation tonight. Hugues had told me that I could talk about whatever I wanted. I originally thought I should do ...

Welcome back to my blog!  I'm sorry, but due to suspicious activity, I had to take myself off of the internet for a while.  Don't wo...