I'll be studying with BU's program there, taking classes at the Universite de Grenoble, living with a host family, and hopefully traveling around! As you can see, its nicely located near Switzerland as well as Provence and Italy. Pretty good, no?
So far I feel pretty ready. I have my visa, clothes, tickets, and eight years of school French to help me out. I'm looking forward to eating large quantities of cheese and drinking wine--I'll be turning 21 while I'm there, so its like I'm legal to drink a few months earlier than if I stayed in the US! I'm also excited as my host family has two young daughters and I'd like to see what its like to be a big sister for once and not be the one always bossed around.
So here's how the journey will go:
Wednesday morning: Drive to airport. Fly to JFK.
Wednesday afternoon: Fly to Frankfurt.
Thursday morning: Arrive in Frankfurt. Fly to Lyons.
Thursday afternoon: Take shuttle to Grenoble. Then take taxi to the program center.
As you can see, I'm taking pretty much every mode of transportation except for boat and unicorn, which seemed like more fun, but less practical options. I'm sure I'll be dazed and jet lagged when I get there, but I"ll take lots of pictures (of everything, as promised to my beloved older sister).
I can't believe it's almost here! I've been planning and looking forward to doing this for so long! I'll hopefully be pretty good about keeping up this blog and posting pictures, but if I get flaky about it assume I'm just busy drinking wine and admiring Alps.
And skiing. Apparently that's the thing to do. Should be amusing for the people watching me. . .
Love,
Miriam
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