bonjour.
I am writing to you from Saverne, France! Yes, we finally made it. My jouney began with an 8 am flight from Portland to Spokane, where I waited until about 1 until my fellow travelers began to show up. All except our professor, that is, and it was here where we learned that madame Brown had caught a bad illness and wont be with us the first few days. However, our TA, Katrina, boldy stepped in! From there, we flew to Seattle, waited again, and then flew into London. From the Heathrow airport we flew (yet again) to Paris, and took le TVG (really fast train) to Strasbourg, and piled into a 14 person bus to Saverne.
However, our autocar (bus) ended up breaking down halfway to Saverne. which turned out to be fine. The exauhstion was, by this point, so overwhelming that i found it difficult to be angered or anything of the sort. i was almost even too exhausted to be tired... even if my accidentally sleeping in until 3 PM would state otherwise...
So we sat there in the bus, hoping it was a regular cigarette our driver was smoking, watching a woman watch us from her 2nd story window, watching the snow, taking pictures, and soaking up what is the typical travelling abroad experience. that is, broken down vehicles and being late to destnations, but also taking seemingly negative events and using them for positive experiences.
My Host Family!
they seem quite nice. I think I am going to have to struggle to parler toujours le francais as my host mother is an english teacher! her name is Rachel, and she is kind, albeit a little intimidating. I am still not quite sure what my host fathers name is ( and at this moment not sure it they have an apostrophe key on this keyboard...) but he is sweet and helped me igure out the telephone. i know they have 2 daughters, though one - the six year old, i believe, is at her grandmothers house for the week.
anyway, i am not quite sure what to do. It is so overwhelming! tomorrow we will have class, so that will give me some structure, that is if i can manage to wake up on time.
i will write again soon, hopefully.
au revoir1
2 comments:
I'm glad they don't make you write your blog en Francais... What a great way to start a trip (teacher misses the flight, bus breaks down, etc.). Hope you get caught up on your sleep soon. Look forward to more blogs!
Hey love, make sure to take walks outside. Any kind of daylight helps you adjust. Also coffee. drink lots of it :) And hugs, give them out and you shall receive.
Everything is SO stressful and exhausting for a while, I seriously slept like 14 hours almost every night the first week to cope. But, I love you, and so you know, it gets real fun real fast :)
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