I. Can't. Wait.
I understand that I'll experience homesickness, perhaps culture shock, and there are going to be times that I miss my friends and family terribly... Even now, I think to myself: Woww this sucks. I am going to miss out on an entire year of good times with friends at Linfield. I will miss recruitment for Phi Sig, I will miss living with my best friends and having the craziest times with them, I will miss long study nights and procrastinating in the library when I should really be doing homework. But I know that I have just as memorable times coming up. Except the setting will be totally different, all my new memories will be in French, in an awesome city, Marseille. It's got something Linfield sure could use a little more of- DIVERSITY.
With a large immigrant population, I will almost blend in by being a foreigner. It will be a nice blend between France and French culture, and a melting pot of Arabs, Spaniards, and a hodgepodge of other nationalities. Part of my program requires me to not only study politics and French (for my French and International Relations majors), but also a bit of anthropology/sociology and Arabic! I am preeettty excited for classes.
Tonight I find out who my host family is and where I'll be living... :D
I am stoked.
Aaaand currently I have lots of butterflies in my tummy.
I have lots to do... which is kind of overwhelming when I realize I only have 2 full days left in the States (!!!) but I'm a natural, professional procrastinator, so it's okay.
I should probably finish my pre-departure essay for my French professor now.... (Desolee M. Durand!)
What can I say... I'm a procrastinator :)
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