Je suis arrivee.

Well, I have finally arrived. I honestly can't believe I'm in France. It's so surreal that I haven't really taken it all in. Of course I've only been here less than a day, so I haven't really seen or done much except get acquainted with the area (near la Bastille) where we will be taking most of our classes and where we are staying this weekend before moving in with our families on Sunday. I'm very nervous about meeting my family and just keeping my figures crossed that we'll get along.

We saw the center where we will be taking classes today. That made things feel a bit more real, since it was a reminder that oh yes we are actually here for school. Our actually classes don't start for another week, but we have orientations and intensive language preparation next week. Hopefully that will be useful, since I'm already realizing I need to start practicing my French a lot more. It's hard though when you're with a group of American students, because everyone just seems to fall back on speaking English with each other.

I don't really know anyone in the program too well, just a few people casually from classes. But everyone seems pretty nice and hopefully I'll make some good friends.

Well, that's about it. I'm just trying to absorb the fact that I'm in France and it is going to be my new home for the next four months. Wow.