voyage!

Hellllo

After three whole days of stressful exams (please laugh along, the fact that a whole semester of exams fit into three days is a joke) I have a lovely two and a half weeks off. It all came so fast after break that we all of a sudden were in a rat race to find flights and hostels and (most importantly) decide where we want to go!

The French Fam has decided to split up, a few going to amsterdam/hungary/prague (fun!)... A few headed to spain and morocco... Billy and I are going to Belgium (for some waffles and chocolates) and then jetting off to Sweden to freeze our little butts off!

For anyone who is unaware, one of my best friends is spending her 2nd semester of her 3rd year in Sweden on an exchange in a little town called Sundsval. New location for my exam break! It looks like we are leaving Dijon on February 1st- taking a train to Belgium (Brussels) then flying from Brussels to Sweden and staying there until the 9th, before heading back to Paris/Dijon! I am so excited and so frightened for the cold... I am looking at investing in longjohns... has anyone LOOKED AT A MAP RECENTLY?! Mid-Western Sweden is quite as north as the TERRITORY region of Canada. Hopefully I do not return as an icicle. eeeep!

I will post pictures upon my return... I am reallllly excited. I hope to even visit Ikea!

zoom zoom zooooom!

It's Official!

I have booked my flight back to Canada. Yes, it was a form of procrastination, BUT it worked out well- for under 600 canadian dollars, I will be standing on Canadian soil once again! My flight is booked for June 21st and I arrive in Halifax at 8:15pm. I will then spend the night in Hali and hope to zip back to my island on the 22nd or (at the latest) the 23rd.

This is almost exactly 5 months from now, minus a couple of days. Eeep eeep!

so much more learning, travelling and wine drinking to be done before then!

I must go study- I have three finals tomorrow

gros bisous! (big kisses- in french)

bonjour!

I'm back in the land of the French!

Dad and I had an amazing christmas break in Paris and London- despite a few hiccups such as a 3 day flight delay to Paris and us both coming down with the stomach flu- we had fun anyways!! It was nice to be able to speak english again (in paris and london!) and just relax and be with family!

To be honest I am happier to be back in Dijon then I thought I would. I was anticipating a crippling anxiety and want to be in Canada that I would be sad for days. This sadness never did arrive. Maybe because upon my return to France I was thrown head first into a deadly amount of studying for finals.

France doesn't work like Canada with their schoolterms. I am still in first semester. I am finished the end of January and then I have a week break (I am still trying to work out travel plans for this week) so my life is crazy busy right now. The first exam is a week from monday (outside of the exam block) and the exams officially start one week from that (Jan 25th)

soooo i wont be posting for some time.

all is well though... I miss everyone!

xox