THE DREAM THAT I WISHED CAME TRUE!!! (Well one of the dreams anyway haha) I just moved into my new bedroom, and it is amazing =) I am sooooo happy!!! I have my own bathroom now! Nevermind the fact that you literally have to stand in the shower in order to go to the bathroom and when you take a shower, the entire bathroom floor gets soaked because the shower is the entire bathroom haha. I don't care. It's mine =) And this bed is probably one of the coolest beds I've ever slept on. It descends from the ceiling electrically, so during the day you put it up and at night you bring it down and climb on top of the desk in order to go to sleep. Super high-tech! And I have internet in my bedroom! It took a few days to get moved-in and set-up, hence the lack of blog posts. But now everything's amazing =) However if you thought your bedroom is small, wherever you are, I guarantee you mine's half the size haha. There's a reason my bed descends from the ceiling - it literally doesn't fit on the floor. I barely fit on the floor! I can touch both sides of my room with my hands at the same time. On the bright side, I barely have to do any cleaning here! =)
I may be the only American over here in this residence hall, but I'm not the only English-speaker! Woohoo! I met some awesome British students, so when the French is too overwhelming I have a refuge. Maybe I'll even start to develop a British accent haha! =) It's really exciting to me to have so many international friends - it makes me appreciate Facebook so much more, because I will be able to keep in touch with almost everyone when I go home. And that's the last time I'm mentioning going home haha - don't want to think about that yet! It's too wonderful here to think about home…although my French professor today certainly made me a little homesick in class. Not exactly homesick, just really craving a delicious, rare, Texas steak. Apparently I live in the beef region of France. I had a steak here at the cafeteria. Granted, it was the cafeteria, but still…that doesn't count as steak in Texas. I almost busted out laughing in class when the professor said this region of France is known for beef. I'll show you beef - it's a 3 hour train ride and a 10 hour plane ride away, so give me 26 hours plus time to get through customs and smuggle some meat over here =)
However, when I am missing food from home, I can always go to the market, because I found the Mexican food isle!! Fajitas, burritos, tacos…and something interesting that they call guacamole but isn't anything like the guacamole I make other than the fact that it's green. But it's not even the same shade of green haha. I may try it one day though, just to see =) If it tastes horrible, well I'll find something to do with it haha! Maybe someone who's not from a New Mexican family will appreciate it more than me.
I did just think of something I miss about America…National Half-off Chocolate Day! Since Valentine's Day is basically just another day here, there isn't a huge discount at the French Walmart the day after in order to sell all the candy. It's funny, it seems like just yesterday I was walking in Walmart with my mom and laughing that they were already putting out Valentine's candy. And suddenly I've been in France for almost 6 weeks! It's crazy how fast time flies! But I am definitely not taking a single minute here for granted - I am going to milk every last second out of this amazing experience and see and do absolutely everything possible =)
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