C'est la vie...
So... I'm back in the States. And right now, there's nothing that I'd like more than to go back to France. I'm such a wannabe Frenchy now - I'm eating Nutella and bread for breakfast, refusing to wear color, and ridiculously frustrated by the fact that it's warm and I can't wear cool jackets and scarves and such. Americans seem really loud and obnoxious to me, and I feel like our food is just disgusting. The fact that I can no longer order a glass of wine with my meal also seems strange. Alas, so goes the world.
On the plus side, having gone to France makes me think that maybe I actually was supposed to end up at USC. If I had chosen to transfer for this semester, I never would have met all the amazing people that I did, and I wouldn't have some really really good friends in France now that I know I can always go and visit if I want to. I would not have been able to experience any of the things that I did; from Passoa to Champagne to the Troyes Cathedral to clubbing in Paris to Montmartre and the Arc de Triomphe... So I'm glad that I ended up at USC after all.
And yet, I cannot wait to go back to France. I've decided that I definitely want to do the Tours program, and I'll probably end up spending an academic year somewhere in France for my study abroad. Heck, maybe I'll end up marrying a French man and raising my children there. I feel like, somehow, the US is really far behind France. Maybe it's just that all of Europe has had so much longer to get things figured out... but no matter what it is, French culture is just so much more appealing to me than whatever melange we have going on here.
But, we'll just have to see what happens. What will be, will be.
Ciao ciao! Bisous!
~Tegan
On the plus side, having gone to France makes me think that maybe I actually was supposed to end up at USC. If I had chosen to transfer for this semester, I never would have met all the amazing people that I did, and I wouldn't have some really really good friends in France now that I know I can always go and visit if I want to. I would not have been able to experience any of the things that I did; from Passoa to Champagne to the Troyes Cathedral to clubbing in Paris to Montmartre and the Arc de Triomphe... So I'm glad that I ended up at USC after all.
And yet, I cannot wait to go back to France. I've decided that I definitely want to do the Tours program, and I'll probably end up spending an academic year somewhere in France for my study abroad. Heck, maybe I'll end up marrying a French man and raising my children there. I feel like, somehow, the US is really far behind France. Maybe it's just that all of Europe has had so much longer to get things figured out... but no matter what it is, French culture is just so much more appealing to me than whatever melange we have going on here.
But, we'll just have to see what happens. What will be, will be.
Ciao ciao! Bisous!
~Tegan
posted by Raison d'Etre @ 1:31 PM
1 Comments:
At 6:05 PM,
Anonymous said…
Nutella and bread for breakfast makes my mouth water. I think I have some nutella in my cupboard. I'll go see :)
Most American food is pretty disgusting--or at least just not delicate and fine.
I hope you get to do the Tours program, that sounds exciting. If I was actually a student at USC, I'd try to go there :)
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