- I left my mom at the gate where the passports are checked as i turned a tear ran down my cheak, I am going to miss her: you dont really realize the things you have and take for greanted until they are taken away: but it was my decision to do this and i will get through it: the 8 hour plane ride was too uncomfortable i drank 2 complimentary wine bottles: dont worry they were small and souvenior number one: when we landed in france it did not really look different: we came to a conclusion that the plane took us to mexico or went around ohare a billion times and landed on the other side of the airport: because of the part of the airport that had collapsed in the early summer, we could not pull into the actual port; we had to step down stairs and have a bus take us to the port: after an hour bus ride we arrived to versailles: the school is right across from the chateau, avenue de paris and avenue de saint cloud is beautiful, the streets are radially parallel to eachother and double lined with tress: the town is filled with cafes, markets and people: each student awaited for their host to pick them up; the 39 students sat inside the courtyard of the school on the stoned ground with our luggage everywhich way: we were being picked up one by one anticipating if that was our "owner"
"i feel like an orphan" monica; who goes with me to uic said
"i would not know ive never been an orphan before" said dan, a boy from urbana
"after the thrid time around, you just dont feel loved anymore" i joked
i moved in and ate dinner with my owners: they do not talk much english and i not much french so communicating is hard: we had the dictionaries out: it was hard to believe that about 'à hours ago i had coffee at caribou in st: charles IL driving the huge excursion; and now i hop on a plane and i can not do that anymore...they dont have excursions here; not even close (but the bikes oh the bikes) i crashed at 10 pm: and that was my 40 hour first day:
shandar | 11:19 AM
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