Today is the day that I FINALLY leave! AT 605p tonite I will be on a plane to London, where I will be spending the next 3 days. After that it's off to Cannes for the next 4 months! It's definitely hit me that this is happening, but I'm surprisingly calm.
I don't know if I could have said as much last nite during the 4+ hours I spent trying to jam my entire life into two notsobig suitcases. After a lot of editing, I am 97% done. I just have a little more to do this morning and I'll be set. I had planned to take pictures so I could finally get a bit of interest into these posts, but me looking frustrated out of my mind probably wouldn't have been the most attractive picture.
I'm on a group flight to London, which means there are 4 or 5 other people from my program who will be on my flight with me. I'm hoping that we'll be seated together, but I don't know the likelihood of that. One of them is another girl from Quinnipiac who I don't actually know, but maybe we'll recognize each other? It would just be nice to have someone else to go through the motions of the airport and finding our group with.
I've been eating my fair share of comfort food that I know I won't be able to have when I'm in France, like Dunkin Donuts haha. I think I'm imagining it being soooo vastly different from America, but I think that in actuality there will be a lot of similarities.
I'll post again once I'm in London, I hope! And I will be taking a lot of pictures, unlike my last trip...ha I promise! Miss you all!
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Only 2 weeks...
...Until I leave for Cannes! It's wild to look back to the day I decided that Cannes is where I wanted to apply to study abroad and then only look 14 days into the future and see it all coming to fruition. It's finally hit me that yes, I really AM going, and I'm starting to get my little butt into gear.
Yesterday I braved the cold and slush and headed into Boston to pick up my visa. It's a lot less impressive than I was expecting it to be. I was thinking that it would be this big important document, but it's basically just a piece of paper that's been taped inside of my passport. But ultimately no complaints. As long as it gets me into the country, I don't care what it looks like!
Throughout the past week or so I've also started studying my French. I'm able to speak conversationally, but I want to be able to pass for a native eventually...though I don't know if that's likely! I have to take an entrance exam-- both written and oral-- which stresses me out a bit because I want to place in a high enough level of French to intern with the film festival, so fingers crossed for that!
I'll hopefully be updating this frequently with pictures and stories of my semester abroad. Oh, and as for the title of my blog...I don't care what anyone tells you, it's pronounced CAN, as in a can of soda. Just get a little nasal with it and you'll sound like a frenchman [or woman] in no time!
Yesterday I braved the cold and slush and headed into Boston to pick up my visa. It's a lot less impressive than I was expecting it to be. I was thinking that it would be this big important document, but it's basically just a piece of paper that's been taped inside of my passport. But ultimately no complaints. As long as it gets me into the country, I don't care what it looks like!
Throughout the past week or so I've also started studying my French. I'm able to speak conversationally, but I want to be able to pass for a native eventually...though I don't know if that's likely! I have to take an entrance exam-- both written and oral-- which stresses me out a bit because I want to place in a high enough level of French to intern with the film festival, so fingers crossed for that!
I'll hopefully be updating this frequently with pictures and stories of my semester abroad. Oh, and as for the title of my blog...I don't care what anyone tells you, it's pronounced CAN, as in a can of soda. Just get a little nasal with it and you'll sound like a frenchman [or woman] in no time!
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