Introduction

Happy New Year, Bonne année, onnellista uutta vuotta, Prosit Neujahr, y Feliz año nuevo!

I started this blog to document my experiences, activities, and photos during my upcoming Semester Abroad in Paris.  I needed an easy way to keep in touch with all of you back in the states, as well as my friends in Europe, and definitely was NOT going to get a Facebook.  It'll also serve to keep my parents informed in the regrettably likely event that I forget to e-mail them.  I hope to update at least every week and a half, but ideally more like three times a week.

So for those of you who don't know, I'm leaving for Paris on January 31 to participate in an intensive French language program at the Sorbonne.  Even though I go to Guilford College, the program's facilitated through the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, but luckily it still counts as a Guilford program, so the tuition's the same.  I've got all the documents I need, except for my Student Visa.  I just need to sift through papers until I find two things that I need for the application, so I'll get that as soon as possible, hopefully by Monday or Tuesday.

But besides getting ready, I've just got a month here at home.  I plan to go to the Inauguration, so that'll be something exciting.

Trente jours.  Trente jours très courts...

On a different note, here are some pictures I took when my family went down to Florida for Christmas.