la vitesse du temps
Okay, yes. It’s been a minute. But, in a way, this hiatus in blog posts - if it’s even possible to call it that after only two entries - more accurately sums up the experience of a year abroad than anything I could ever write. To put it shortly: you get swept up in it. First, it was the trips around the region our whole 60 member school took together; coupled inevitably by long bus rides where I conversed with my not-yet friends and read easy, feel-happy novels instead of writing a blog post. Then, the Toussaints holiday- two weeks I let drip away, without writing a blog post, learning to tell jokes in french or spending too much money on 'lunches with the girls' at each new cafe I could find. I tried writing a few different posts, but ended up overthinking them (and all the better, I might add - i think they were a bit too angsty and contemplative). Plus, I mean, what do you even put in a blog post? And how is it any different from a facebook status? The Christmas se...