Blog Abroad

Hey! I haven't talked to you all week. But I haven't heard from anybody either! If you're on my postcard list, keep an eye out this week! If you're not and you think you should be, you'll have to tell me. Last weekend as I said I visited the villages of Luberon (see encyclopedia). The trips are usually every other week, but we had another trip today to Arles (see encyclopedia). Arles is great, but I think I enjoyed the villages better. Although today we followed the path of Van Gogh and, as I...

Good morning! I think it's 3:30 there now, but here I've already eaten breakfast. I think Wednesday is laundry day, but I'm not allowed to use the washer so Catherine washes and dries my clothes. I don't have courses on Wednesday so I think I will use my Wednesdays to go to a local cafe/library thing and do homework. And I can go to the market and get a couple things to make lunch Thursday and Friday. Like bread and cheese or Spinach for salad or something. I found a couple cafes not too far ...

Hey again! First day of classes so I thought I'd let you know how it went. First of all, I ran out of "minutes" on my dinosaur French phone last night so I went to the Tabac to recharge. The phone says "Orange" on it and has a lot of "Orange" apps, but apparently my sim card is SFR and not Orange, and the Tabac cannot exchange or return... so I lost 15 euros this morning. Soooo I'll have to try again tomorrow. Then before today even started, I had my alarm set at 9 AM because my first class w...

Good morning! I posted all of my Aix photos, so that is all up-to-date. I have tried a thousand times to post the Barcelona photos and something goes wrong every time and it's getting irritating, so when I have the patience to spend another two hours sitting here uploading photos that may or may not load, I'll try again :). But they're already on Facebook I think anyways. Also, I will post the Barcelona info along with a brief summary of the <<Je suis Charlie>> in my encyclop...

Hey! Sorry I haven't written you in so long, but the outlets in Europe are different and I didn't have a converter to plug my laptop in. I will post the pictures missed and some info about Barcelona soon, but this upcoming week will be chaotic for me so have patience! I start intensive orientation tomorrow morning at 9 AM.

Some things I didn't post in Spain: some toilets have two buttons: a poop flush and a pee flush. There is a second comode for women to wash their derrieres when nece...

Hey! I am now sitting in bed at Edison's house writing this, but am very tired as I have not been able to get much sleep. The flight was very long and uncomfortable although they did feed me dinner and breakfast. The girl who sat beside me actualy helped me alot when we got off of the plane and since we arrived so early in the morning, customs was empty and we made it through very easily. Edison met me at the exit which I appreciated very much, especially since I would have definitely gotten ...

Good afternoon! I'm currently sitting at the gate in Boston Logan waiting for my flight. I'll have a layover before I go overseas, but I'm already really nervous. I was so nervous yesterday that I might have called it all off if it were anything else, but I know too much has already gone into this. I got to eat lunch with mom, Billy and Amanda before we said goodbyes and when we were about to leave, the fire alarm went off! But don't worry, it was just an elevator problems and nobody had to v...