The City of Love

So, I met an incredible, beautiful, amazing French girl this past Sunday evening. She’s a member of the church; her whole family was baptized when she was six years old. Her name is Elise. We actually have a lot in common (imagine that—with a French girl, too!). It’s kind of against the rules, but I pretty much skipped all of my classes on Monday and Tuesday, and we have just been walking around, talking and having fun. She speaks English pretty well (thank goodness! Can you imagine me trying to speak only in French to anyone for extended periods of time?). It’s been pretty cool. Need I say more?

Well, almost as good as finding true love, I’ve finished all of my homework for the semester (you may or may not have noticed from the grueling pace at which I’ve been working on my homework how academically difficult this semester has been, and how I’ve been slaving away at my computer trying to finish all the paper—note the deliberate lack of “s”—assigned to me. Actually, there was more than one paper assigned, but I still doubt I’ve topped 2 hours of homework in almost any week I’ve been here). So, my life will continue on at the same idyllic pace it’s been for the past few months. I’ve finished a number of books, and I’ve gotten well into my accounting review for work.

I’ve decided that I will keep my blog when I get home, and once I start working I will have one day a week when I’ll post things, so you don’t have to guess when I will post something new (but it does keep you on your toes, doesn’t it? You always have to guess). My first several weeks home will be insane between Lindsay Lee’s wedding, Jon Laudie’s wedding, and my friend Alex Pingree’s wedding. I think I’ll also squeeze in a 5 day trip to the Outer Banks in North Carolina (as I do every Memorial Day—this will be my 5^th time out there) as well as a trip to Seattle and a road trip to Tijuana with my roommate Justin. We’ll see if I can dredge up anything exciting in among all that play. Speaking of dredging up exciting things, it looks like I will be in Rome from Thursday to Sunday of this week, and that next week (after finals) we’re going to Switzerland and the south of France for 7 days, and I will top off the madness with a trip to Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca. That’ll put me in a different country every week for the next 4 weeks Italy, France, Spain and the USA—God bless the USA, by the way!).