Host family-crucial!

I would honestly say that host family is definitely one of the crucial things when you are abroad and you really want to have the full experience and culture. I was lucky enough to get the best family  you can actually ever imagine. Our relationship is not student-host, I would say that we have something that is just way beyond that and that makes me feel like I take part in their life :).
I was also lucky enough to have 3 great host brothers. I did not really  hang around a lot with the third one who lives in Paris but I have met him twice, once while I was in Paris and the second time when he was here for my birthday. I love them all like they are my real brothers. I spend most of my time with the youngest one who is just awesome, actually my whole group is in love with him, although most of them did not even meet him.

My host parents are awesome too! I love our little celebration "the end of the week" every Friday before dinner when we take some alcohol and just chill and talk for hours. After that I would usually go out and come back sometime in the morning, or would just stay and talk to my host brothers, maybe even drink with them. We also go to theater or cinema every week at least once. I just love being asked if I understood everything in the movie. I hope it just stays like this until June :)

It has been long

I originally created this blog so I can actually have some memories left from France, but I have been here for more than two months and this is the first time that I am writing about it. We are 17, pretty cool group with some exceptions but you know, those always exist. I am actually very happy to be back in Europe. I missed this culture of having coffee for hours, talking and just everything being slower than it usually is in the States.
I had two awesome weeks on the country side. My host family there was just awesome, and the host siblings were just really cool.We lived on a farm that had a cheese factory and it could not be any better for me beacuse I love cheese and everything about it. Through those two weeks I slept a lot beacuse I was still very tired after Middlebury that I had to have some kind of vacation.
Now I am in Rouen, staying with an awesome host family and host brothers who are just like my brothers. I have also made a decision to stay a year in France and I am very excited about it. It might be a bitch to take economics courses in French, but people did it before and I am pretty sure that I can do it too.It is great that we have done all the traveling with the program for this semester, we basically spend half of this month in some other places and that has just made us all very tired.
Today is just another normal rainy day here in Normandie. Leslie and Ariel are with me since my family left to Paris for the night but I had a lot of fun yesterday. I hope it does not get cold like at SLU, that would not make me happy at all!