It took me a moment to figure out how to add a new post...

Well, I made it! It literally was planes, trains, and autmobiles getting here (two planes, two trains, and a gray minivan) but I'm comfortably "installée" in my little host family here. First, I would just like to say what a great travel day I had. It was albeit long, but I had a few perks hit me throughout. First, I attempted to use my government issued ID that I had to get to work at sheplers to cut in line at security. It worked; I literally had to wait two minutes.   :D  Then, before I left Detroit I successfully changed my seat from an aisle seat in the middle section to a window seat. This made it so much easier to sleep during the flight w/ the help of a sleeping pill provided by mom. Thanks mom!

Anyways, 22 hours after a tearful goodbye to my mom and grandma, I was picked up by the head of the english department at the school I'm going to be teaching in. She has three kids Nicolas, ~16 Simon, ~14 and Elvira who is 8. She is probably the cutest 8 year old I've ever met. She never stops talking and has to take huge breaths all the time b/c she talks so fast that she probably makes herself dizzy. Marie-Agnes is so nice and will probably help me with anything I need. (Apart from free room and board while I look for an apartment) My French is pretty rusty and I stumble alot, but M-A just complemented me on how good my French is. Holler! I also can't really understand a word of what the kids say, partly because they talk so fast and partly because the northern accent is quite different from the Grenoblois one. But I haven't had to resort to much English so far, so yay for me! That 100 Euros Albion paid for me to take that french proficiency test is really paying off!

Ironically, my first meal when I got to my host family was french fries and hot dogs...what the french, toast? But it was fine because they had been working all morning moving Marie's husband to or from an apartment where he works...never really caught that whole situation...   But tonight's dinner was duck and beets followed by my all time favorite-stinky stinky camembert! So the food situation is definitely looking up. I never realized all of the things I missed about France. Well, I knew I missed the cheese...but people speaking french all the time, the ease of transportation, their cute little road signs w/ their cute little cars and their cute little roundabouts. It's been an emotional last couple weeks, but I'm so relieved to have gotten here and just be so pumped about living the European life again. I can't wait to start school, meet some sweet people, and just start traveling to visit all my friends! Although, I should probably first buy a cell phone and find a place to live...

That's all for now (yeah right, I just wrote a book) Hope everything is going well stateside!