I'm back!

I don't even know what to post about. Yea, I just spent the last week in London. There were some goods and some bads, in the end I'm just glad to be back in France.  Back where I have my own room and the internet doesn't suck. I meant to post yesterday but I didn't feel well at all, so here's to today.


Mom and Dan leave for France today. I'm so excited for them!  I still wish I could be in Paris when they get there but it's okay. I just can't wait til Friday. 


French people look at you weird when you stand at the bus stop and sing invisible songs... It's like French people don't sing. At all. Okay I'm not so sure about that, when I was in London at our youth hostel I was playing some music on my iPod and this French song came on, and there was a French girl not far from me and she started singing to it.  It was pretty amusing.


I don't know why I just legitimately have nothing to say. Everyone wants to know how London was and stuff like that but I really don't have anything to say about London... I'm going to have a real hard time with my host family then, because they always want to know how my trips went... I honestly have nothing to tell about London. Yea, not one of the most exciting trips I've been on.... For one thing, it was too long. And I told Jennifer before we left, 10 days is going to be way too long. She didn't believe me...  The last 3 days we were there, I was exhausted and ready to go home. And the only reason I wasn't done long before that was because we spent two days doing nothing while Jennifer was in the hospital.  I know you'd think if it's a cool place it'd be nice to spend more time there, but the best vacations I've ever had were only 3 or 4 days in one place.  I would have been fine leaving London after day five...  Oh well, no big deal. I'll get over it. I ate a lot of Chinese food while I was there and should be good for the rest of the semester here in Chinese-less Pau.  Now I'm just missing Mexican food. I read that there was a Taco Bell near London but we didn't go... I know, that's not real Mexican food anyways. But it would have done for a while.


I just want to say: I can't wait to get home from Spain in May. I can't wait to move to Boise and get a job and start doing my own thing.  I'm trying to be positive about how easy it will be to find a job after studying abroad for a year. I think it raises my chances a lot but who really knows? I know for sure that when I move to Boise I might start going to the gym at Boise State.  If I don't lose the weight I want to lose while I'm here, I'm going to lose it when I get home. Absolutely. May just seems like such a long time from now... But at the same time, I thought four months in France sounded like a long time but I've been here for at least two months now and there's only seven more weeks until we're heading home already.  I don't really know how I feel about that... On one hand, I can't wait to get home and eat normal food again and speak English and see my family and my cat and be in the same continent as everyone I know and also be in the same time zones, or at least one or two time zones away. On the other hand I know I really profit from being here and I don't want to ruin the rest of my time here by spending all of it looking forward to going home...  I definitely do look forward to switching to Spain though, because I'll have a different atmosphere and new people to meet and new opportunities to try to break out of my shell... 


Speaking of which, I've been talking to this Colombian girl lately. She speaks Spanish and kind of understands a little English but not really. We mainly talk in French. She wants me to talk to her in Spanish but I don't really want to. It's just weird. Besides, she talks too fast for me.  Today, during our two hour break, we were sitting on a bench in the main class building and she left for a few minutes to go to the bathroom.  This French girl came up to me and said that she noticed we were foreign students and asked if I want to do a language exchange. She is studying English at the university.  I gave her my email address and she said she'd email me.  That's pretty cool, I went to the USAC office at the beginning of the semester for a language partner, but I never ended up emailing her. (I feel bad about that but now I feel like it's too late... Maybe I'll still email her too.)  It would be really cool if that girl actually emails me.  I feel like finding a language partner like that is a lot more interesting than going to the office and asking for a name and email address.


Okay. I think I'm done posting for the night.  Thank you for reading, you are a lovely audience.