I'm here!

So I'm finally in Paris.

It's my third day here and I am still trying to find somewhere to live which is proving to be incredibly stressful and makes me so anxious. I know I'll find something but it doesn't help when I hear from a girl I'm sharing my room with that she has been looking for 2 weeks and still hasn't found anything yet.

Awesome.

I'm heading to my school today to meet with my contact and she should hopefully have some answers for me like where I can live.

Fingers crossed!

I miss my family and friends so much. I didn't think I'd miss them as much as I do. I've luckily been able to talk to some people from home which has helped me feel much better but somehow makes me miss them even more.

I'm happy I'm here but I'll be even happier when I am not sharing a hostel room with 9 other girls who roll joints in the bed next to me and wake up at 6 am and noisly get ready without regard for the other 9 people asleep.

Until then I'm listening to Harry Potter 7 (thanks to Jordan) to help me calm down a little bit.

A la prochaine!

THREE THREE THREE THREE THREE THREE

So I'm leaving America in t-minus 3 days. How wonderful is that? I must say that I'm finally getting truly excited. I don't really have anything else to worry about except getting to France and finding someplace to live.

Seriously though.

I'm kind of freaking out.

My room is almost all packed up {so entirely depressing} and I've gotten the majority of my shopping complete. Now I just need to get on the plane and head to France!

I'm ready!!!

Dix jours

Ten.

Ten ten ten!!

So I've started this post about twenty different times about twenty different things. I don't know if you've seen You've Got Mail but I've been like Tom Hanks when he is emailing Meg Ryan aka ShopGirl about why he didn't show up to meet her. He types and then erases and types something else. {PS that is probably one of the best movies ever made. "I wanted it to be you, I wanted it to be you so badly." "Don't cry shopgirl." And then "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" swells and you wish Tom Hanks would walk through your door with Brinkley and take you in his arms. Oh it's so utterly romantic!}

Anyway, this is what I've done for the past fifteen minutes.

Type, erase and retype.

I don't really know what to say but I want to at least document what I'm thinking and doing because 1. It's a requirement for one of my classes and 2. I'm a terrible journal writer so maybe this can be some lame replacement for documenting this experience.

I'm excited and I'm ready to be there but at the same time I'm a little worried and anxious about finding somewhere to live {I'M HOMELESS!} and speaking French and then I have a freakout after I think about all of this stuff but then I feel completely calm.

Ron Weasley: One person couldn't feel all of that, they'd explode.

I may just do that very thing Ron.

Mainly I think I'll be happy when the next three weeks are over. Hopefully I'll have somewhere to live at that point and I won't be homeless anymore. That'd be nice.

In the meantime I've been reading Harry Potter, eating gallons and gallons of chocolate and listening to Dashboard to stay calm.

PS I was reading HP 7 and completely lost it when Harry asks Sirius if dying hurts. Sirius replies,

"Dying? Not at all. Quicker and easier than falling asleep."

I. Love. Him. Whatever that he isn't real. He's my favorite.

RIP Sirius Black aka Padfoot aka Snuffles

Eighteen Days...

I can't quite wrap my head around the fact that I am leaving in eighteen days.

Ahh.

I want to update a little on what is going on with everything before I leave.

I made it to San Francisco for my visa appointment {my brother and I drove in my Smart Car. Jealous?} and received it 10 days later!
I am just about finished with getting my course contracts set up. One more! One more!
I still haven't found a place to stay... Whatever. I'm busy.
It is my last day of work and this is what my boss got for me!



Isn't that so kind of her? She's just wonderful. She got me another one as well but I didn't feel like posting it. Use your imagination.

Anyway, things are winding down {or is it up?} and I am getting more nervous/anxious/excited/etc. about heading to France everyday.

I'm ready to be there already!