Thursday, August 23, 2012

Green Sunglasses :: Lunettes de Soleil Vertes

"Imagine that everyone in the United States has a pair of blue sunglasses.  Everyone in France was born with yellow sunglasses. When you go to France, you keep your blue sunglasses, but then you get yellow lenses too.  When you come back, your sunglasses are green."
-A YFU Representative


Wednesday, August 22, 2012

The Beginning :: Le Début

Writing a blog is hard.  I have a new found respect for all the people on the Internet that have become famous for it. I agonized over what to say, going to my friends for advice, reading other travel blogs online, and even googling how to write a blog.

the last resulted in a detour to pottery

My friends gave me encouraging, motivational words that pushed me forward: "lol you just ....write"  Way to dig deep.  But it worked!  

Anyways, this blog is not going to be me griping about my friends and their epiphany-inspiring 160 character texts, nor lack thereof.

It'll be about a wannabe Francophone (Hint: it's me).  I'll be going to France for an entire school year and I'll share on here everything I experience, as well as stuff I find on the internet that helped me learn French.