Voila! Here I am, in France! When I first arrived my groupe traveled to Sommieres for a short orientationm then a week ago we retourned to Montpellier and moved in with our host families. I love my hostparents! They're so sweet. It's an older couple, orthodox Christian, and they have been so nice to me, helping me with my French, etc. We have these in-depth conversations about religion and life at the dinner table every night; it's pretty cool.
This has been our first week of classes in what's called the préstage, which is like three weeks of language and civ classes before we start at the university in September. Those are pretty straigh-forward and not overly difficult , which is nice, but it means I don't have much free time right now.
Our group of UNC students is fun. We what 14 girls and 1 lone guy, and a few of us get together to do something most evenings. In August, Montpellier has wine tastings every Friday, so a group of us went to that last week. I've discovered that I don't like wine; I want to acquire the taste before I leave but at the moment I can't drink more than a few sips of it. Even here in France where it's legal for me to drink and people don't drink to get drunk like they do in the US, I still have zero desire to drink, and I haven't yet decided if I'm going to go out with some of the other girls and try a drink or not sometime. Any thoughts?
So far I love it here, but I do miss people, and I miss being on campus. I think the hardest part of that is feeling somewhat left behind by your friends because you're not with them doing the things they're doing, something that's exacerbated by the 6-hour time difference that makes it hard to talk to people at all. But this is a beautiful city that I'm quickly falling in love with, and I can tell already that I'm going to be really sad when I have to leave.
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Schedule
- 19 May: Arrive in Boston
- 28 June: Fly to WI
- 5 July: Return to Boston
- 16 August: Fly back to NC
About Me
- ~becky
- I am a college student majoring in international studies, which is basically the study of the many peoples and cultures on the Earth and their distinctions and interactions. I figure God has created this great Earth with all these different peoples and cultures on them - why not honor Him by studying those people and cultures, hopefully using that knowledge to somehow further His kingdom? This blog chronicles the wanderings I embark on as I participate in programs that will take me far from home and my comfort zone, hopefully learning something about the peoples God has created along the way.
2 comments:
If you have zero desire to do it, and already don't like it, why are you bothering to aquire a taste for it, or wondering if you should go out for a drink? I mean I know you want to be a part of French culture and what not but I don't know, you've always been strongly against drinking and said you wouldn't even when you were in France or of age here.
Hey Becks!
That is great about your host family. And poor guy ... they should have warned him about that first! Or maybe he's not so upset about it ;). As for drinking ... I think it's great to enjoy the wine there and experience the culture. But the bars there are just like bars here, as are the drinks. From my experience, nothing edifying ever happens in a bar. But taste some champagne for me, k? :)
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