Exams are finally over, but that means everyone that's leaving Tours has left ( Read more... )

What a strange weekend ( Read more... )

Tonight I'm going ice skating with the Erasmus family. I haven't gone ice skating since I was about 8 years old, and even then, I didn't know how and just pulled myself along the rail with some friends, so you can imagine how nervous I am right now. I was supposed to go alone with Daniel as a special date to make up for a night of debauchery gone ( Read more... )

Last week I had a break from school. I had initially planned on going to Iceland to visit Tom, but due to the fact that we're not really together anymore, that he left the day before I was supposed to arrive, and that I can't even leave France because my visa expired, I didn't go. Instead I went on a short trip to Biarritz and Toulouse with Natalia ( Read more... )

Ignore that last entry ( Read more... )

Well that didn't last very long. How did I let myself get played like that?

I love this continent. I'm happier here, in this culture intermingling with all the other european cultures (thanks to ERASMUS), than I have ever been in the US. I'm making friends, going out almost every night, drinking more than I probably should be, and having an all around good time ( Read more... )

In less than 24 hours, I will be taking off. I'm really not sure what to say. I feel slightly numb. I know I should be excited, but I guess that's just not the sort of person I am.

I haven't changed much in 4 years. Who has, though?

I worry that I am naive. While I have a tendency towards frankness, I choose to be that way knowing that to be honest and straightforward, while sometimes painful, is more just than being cunning and leading people astray. Is it possible to be both candid and sophisticated? Is honesty a childlike quality, or a choice that one makes as an adult? ( Read more... )

I have eleven days left before I leave for France, and I go to Florida tomorrow. The papers I need to fill out for my dorm still haven't arrived in the mail, so we contacted the woman in charge of housing arrangements and she gave me the information I need. I will be staying in Europa, and my roommate is going to be a German girl. All I have to do ( Read more... )