Lazy, Cold, Beautiful Sunday.

Just chillin with Vivaldi.

First things first: anyone who has not heard "Ocean" by John Butler, go and listen to it right now.

So let's see - last night I went into Rouen, met up with Emily at a coffee shop and hung out there/did homework/talked about life for a few hours. Of course it was raining, so walking home after that wasn't exactly a blast, but it's still way better than taking the bus :) After that, I got lost around Rouen for a little while (at least I got some exercise), and ended up calling it a night fairly early. Not too much to tell there.

Today, I woke up earlier than I wanted to, and hung out around the house for most of the day. I learned how to play a song on the piano, worked on some French poems for my literature portfolio, and looked into hostels in Athens for the first night there. Oh - I'm going to Athens, by the way. I'm so excited about it :) And the weekend after my vacation, I'm going to visit Simone in Germany. What an exciting life I have here.

Exciting and wonderful as my life is, I've been thinking a lot today about going home. Maybe it's the weather - the crisp cold of November always makes me excited for Christmas time. I can't help getting excited about relaxing around the fire, listening to music, eating delicious food, and being with my family. What makes everything so much easier though is the fact that I'm with a real host family now. Their house is warm and comfortable, they listen to music all the time, currently it smells delicious because my host mom is cooking dinner, and they even have a cat (Vivaldi) who looks like Bella. I am so happy to be here.

So other than walking into Rouen for a little bit this afternoon to work on my art project at the Musee, I didn't do much today. Which I feel is okay because it's Sunday, it's cold, and it's just one of those days that you need to have every now and then.

I can't believe it's not even 6pm yet; it gets dark here so early now. The sunset today was absolutely gorgeous though. I tried to take a picture, but my camera batteries are completely dead. Of course. Just add that to the fact that my credit card company froze my account and I don't have a cell phone, and you have my luck with technology in a nutshell.

Tomorrow, I get to wake up at 6:30am to walk to school. Yay!

Now I have to find something to do until dinner is ready to keep my mind off the fact that I'm starving and the food smells delicious.

Love, Josie