work, play, and...World Wars?

In exactly a week, I'll be taking a train to the Charles de Gaulle airport (which always amuses me to abbreviate, since it's mum's initials!). Why? To meet Peter and Andrea so that we can take a train to Italy! It's so weird that it's only a week away...we've been planning this visit/trip together since LAST semester and it's finally (almost) here. I'm so excited!! It'll be so good to see family faces - and it's been a good year and a half since I've seen Andrea =)

In the meantime, however, I've been making myself get work done. Since I didn't sleep last week and therefore got nothing done, I've made this week a work week, and even more so next week - at least until Thursday! Granted, I still went out to Bucks on Tuesday after conversation club, but I still managed to sleep...some! What's so weird here is that I never seem to *do* all that much each week, but the time still flies by. I always tend to sit here, trying to write a blog entry, and finding that unless it's about travel, I don't usually have much to say. I suppose that's a good thing...it reminds me that I've moved from being a foreigner in a strange country to...someone living here. Things have settled into a relatively normal life, rather than this overwhelming feeling of being foreign.

Well, that's to say that I don't constantly feel foreign. Only sometimes!

Random Fact of the Day: Yesterday Lazare Ponticelli died at the age of 110. He was the last living French "Poilu," c'est-à-dire a soldier of WWI (poilu meaning hairy one, born of the fact that the soldiers in the trenches could never really shave, so they tended to have bushy mustaches and beards) . I learned about him in my religion class earlier this semester, and my professor was saying that when he died it'd be sure to be all over the news. Sadly, I didn't get a chance to watch the news yesterday, but I DID receive a news text message about it =D

and speaking of World Wars, I'm headed to Normandy this weekend with IES!

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PS - does anyone know why one particular website wouldn't work on my computer, even though it does on other computers? I can't seem to log into facebook, even though I'm able to with friends laptops or the IES computers. While it's not the end of the world (since I have the IES computers to use, of course!), it's getting on my nerves, mainly because I want to upload pictures from Nice, Monaco and Corsica, and that's easiest to do with my laptop. Plus, with Normandy and Italy adventures to come, I want to get them up before I have HUNDREDS of pictures to post at once!