An American Girl in Avignon
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Hello, France, so nice to see you
May 4
So after a long, boring, complicated, and exhausting day of travel, I am finally back in Avignon. I have never been happier to see my host family. Sharing a room with seven people we didn’t know isn’t as bad as it sounds, but it was still awkward, and I was thrilled to finally be able to unpack my things and not live out of a suitcase. Traveling was a lot easier this time because we knew what we were doing and I finally had a strap to carry my bag the right way! Yay.
Since we didn’t get back until around 4:00 today, we missed class, but our advisor had already a-okayed it, since our tickets would be much cheaper.
Carrying our bags across town again, tired, hot, and hungry, even though Kristina and I had agreed to not stop and buy anything on our way home, since we had already spent far too much money as is, the tempting gelato stand by our house was just too hard to resist after our long day.
I felt weird flying back to France from London. It was almost as if our trip was finished and it was time to go back to the United States, but of course, we are only a little over half way through the program. Time sure is flying by! It is already week six of school (my seventh week in France), and yes, I am still in vaca mode. Don’t think I will ever be out of it, really. Wishing that I could hop straight to bed, I instead had a paper and project to finish, since I didn’t do any work this weekend (not that I thought I actually would…why did I bother bringing my journal, again?) Tomorrow, it’s back to the daily grind of classes before I pack up and head out for a long overnight, bus ride on Thursday for Barcelona. I think I may just forget about unpacking after all. Before I know it, I am going to be turning around and leaving again!
So after a long, boring, complicated, and exhausting day of travel, I am finally back in Avignon. I have never been happier to see my host family. Sharing a room with seven people we didn’t know isn’t as bad as it sounds, but it was still awkward, and I was thrilled to finally be able to unpack my things and not live out of a suitcase. Traveling was a lot easier this time because we knew what we were doing and I finally had a strap to carry my bag the right way! Yay.
Since we didn’t get back until around 4:00 today, we missed class, but our advisor had already a-okayed it, since our tickets would be much cheaper.
Carrying our bags across town again, tired, hot, and hungry, even though Kristina and I had agreed to not stop and buy anything on our way home, since we had already spent far too much money as is, the tempting gelato stand by our house was just too hard to resist after our long day.
I felt weird flying back to France from London. It was almost as if our trip was finished and it was time to go back to the United States, but of course, we are only a little over half way through the program. Time sure is flying by! It is already week six of school (my seventh week in France), and yes, I am still in vaca mode. Don’t think I will ever be out of it, really. Wishing that I could hop straight to bed, I instead had a paper and project to finish, since I didn’t do any work this weekend (not that I thought I actually would…why did I bother bringing my journal, again?) Tomorrow, it’s back to the daily grind of classes before I pack up and head out for a long overnight, bus ride on Thursday for Barcelona. I think I may just forget about unpacking after all. Before I know it, I am going to be turning around and leaving again!
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