study abroad in France

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!

I’ve been learning French off and on for 13 years (8 years straight a 4-year break, and now another year). I’ve planned to go there three times (twice with reservations that had to be cancelled). This semester, I applied for, was accepted to, and paid for (by selling my old car) a 6-week program in France. I’m not going to let anything get in my way. I need this break. I need it for my confidence, well-being, awareness of the world… I need it for proof that I can do it. Despite having an unreliable immune system, a stressful semester in school, and many people doubting me, I am doing this for myself.

I’ll be going to college in Tokyo for my Associate’s. It’d be great to not have to return to the States right away. Also, France would be the perfect place to major in art history.

i am the person who always dreams about what they want to do, but rarely does it. I like the open possibility, though, and i never want to short cut myself. I just like to think of elaborate ideas and hope one day maybe, if fate, or destiny, or whatever you want to call it, is real, then it will surely happen if it is supposed to happen.
I have a passion for travel. I know that. I want to jump a plan and live in a continent for months at a time. I don’t want to do it alone, though, I think I would get pretty lonely. But when i think about it, the aloneness is part of its appeal. sometimes being on my own feels good. sometimes ignoring the phone and ignoring the knocks on the door is all apart of figuring out yourself. or maybe they are just metaphors of never allowing anyone into my life.
My own insecurities about people never being genuine enough, always show. I don’t like being messed around with, I don’t like putting trust and faith into people for them to joke with me and my feelings. So emo, I know. But I think thats a huge part of who I am—always in search of the genuine. the real.
I’m tired of never following through.

I want to do this. I’ve never been to France, and that is the basis of its appeal. It has the most allure.