There's nothing like the stress of the end of the semester and being away from loved ones during the holidays to make a girl homesick. GEEZ. I honestly don't think I've been this homesick since being here. It mostly has to do with the overwhelming to do list that needs to be finished by next Monday, which leads to me thinking about home way more than I should.
On the top of this to do list right now: Survive finals and find a place to live for the next five months (which is proving to be way harder than I thought). Top choice right now is living with a couple and their two young daughters (5 and 10) and another girl from California in a "colocation." This is different, however somewhat similar, to a homestay. Living with my current homestay hasn't been the greatest experience so I am super iffy about living with another family. I think that it's really just the people I'm living with though. This place shouldn't even be considered a homestay; they didn't make any effort to include me and the two other Californians here in their family, which is what a homestay is all about! My ideal spot would be an apartment with some French students or Erasmus (the European exchange program) students. Bordeaux isn't like Davis though, where you can't escape the hordes of ads on bulletin boards and craigslist of students looking for someone to help pay the rent. Also, I don't think it's very common in France for people to share a room, because the ads I have seen are for one room, unshared. I only have a few more days to decide, and I'm really considering just taking the easy way out and living with that family. One of the directors of the Center of California is really pushing that one on me, and although it might not be ideal, it will probably end up working out since I like kids and all. I won't have the college apartment feel that I want, where I can invite people over for movie nights and shindigs, but at least it will be somewhere to live, and not with the Pommaredes!
In other news, I'm looking forward to a very exciting Christmas break! In a week I'm leaving for Morocco to visit Agadir, Marrakech, Casablanca, and Fes with my friend Madeleine from my program. Then on the 28th I'm flying to Rome to celebrate the new year with Kim, also from my program.. From there, we're taking the train around Italy until Jan 12, when we'll fly back to Bordeaux to prepare for the new semester. Some stops we'll be making: Pompeii, Florence, Pisa, Venice, Milan. Any suggestions of places to hit up are much appreciated!
Back to studying time, I suppose.
Bonne journée! (Have a good day!)
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