I thought that the fact that I'm on exchange would hit me at some point, especially while travel on my lonesome. But it hasn't... I feel like everything that has happened so far has been a dream, it all seems so surreal, and I feel like I'm gliding through it all. I'm currently on the thalys train to bruxelles midi. Looking out my window, its all green countryside, and the sun is peeping through the clouds, I want to stare at it all, but that little pocket of sun is blinding me which makes it difficult. Ok, so the first flight was all good, but far out the Dubai airport is so confusing, then I had to wait there for a couple of hours, which was fab. Blah blah blah so I got to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, and heaved my huge suitcase to the metro station, and hopped on another train. So yeah, that trip was interesting because the guy sitting next to me was casually rolling up a joint and offered it to me... I was like, "umm, Merci beaucoup, mais non" I have no idea if this is normal, but it was a lovely welcome to Paris all the same. Weird that no one found it strange to have a carriage full of weed smoke, I found it pretty funny though. THEN this other guy walked onto the train, AND STARTED PLAYING THE ACCORDION! I was like oh my god this is so cool. It was like a French movie soundtrack, chilling on the train looking out the window with the accordion in the background. It was AWSOME. The high guy next to me was swaying his head from side to side he was such a lawl.
I HATE PARIS NORD STATION and everyone in it. I swear I was like the only one there with a suitcase around about the same size as me, and obviously it's hard to maneuver everywhere. Instead of people accepting that I'm a young foreign girl trying my hardest to decipher the signs everywhere whilst carrying my bag, they all yell and mutter at me in a fast string of beautiful swear words.
Everyone speaks so fast it's crazy! I'm freaking out a little, but I have to stay calm, because when I freak out all my French disappears, which happened numerous times today. It's all good though, I have had a couple of conversations with some French people, short ones, but conversations all the same.
I can't write in this blog when I go to boarding school, but whatever! I'm just excited to meet everyone :) au revoir tout le monde, quelquefois, je vais parler en français, peut-être le prochaine poste! Comme Christina dit:"je suis très excitée"