study abroad in France

I go home in one week. :(

I am looking forward to seeing friends and family (and having toilets and sinks in the same room, shower heads that I do not have to hold, and people who smile in the streets). But I will greatly miss France. I must come back sometime.

My title says it all! I’ve been in Avignon since the 5th of September (in France since the 4th, out of the US since the 3rd). I love it. It’s beautiful and wonderful and spectacular!

Got my passport.
Now I can work on getting my Visa!
(And sending in all the paperwork)

So I filled out and turned in the application to get a new passport. My old one expired in February, but I couldn’t just renew because I got the passport when I was 15. Anyway, I’ll get it in six weeks.

I was accepted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This means that September 5th, I’ll be in Avignon, France!!!!!

I’m very bad at the waiting game; I’m very impatient. I’m anxiously and excitedly awaiting the call/letter from the Study Abroad Office telling me whether or not I’ve been accepted into the program for this upcoming fall. Yesterday, I wrote an e-mail asking by what medium would I receive my acceptance (or lack-there-of).

Waiting is on the top ten list of Worst Things Ever.

I turned my paperwork in yesterday and today the woman from the Study Abroad Office called and told me that she can now begin processing everything. She says it takes about two weeks but that she hopes she can complete it sooner. So I’ll know in two weeks whether or not I’ll be Studying Abroad in France next semester (Fall 2009). I hope so because I don’t have a back-up plan!!!

Working on the paperwork! If this works out, I’ll be there this fall!!! Watch out, Avignon; here I come!