After a very wonderulf 2.5 weeks in Chicago, I am back (home) in Angers! (Sorry, Dad) Being that most of the people who read this little cyber hot mess of a journal (I'm guessing) are my family strewn throughout the US, I don't see much of a point of recounting what I did, since I was lucky enough to have you all experience it with me. 

I will, however, take this time while I have you all here to express how grateful I am that I got to spend time with you all, and how incredibly fortunate I am to have had the opportunity to see you. I love you all so very much and I literally would not be able to be doing what I'm doing in France without all of your support. You all are incredible, amusing, inspirational, and loving beyond words and I hope you are reminded of that every single day. 

Anywho, not much has happened since I arrived back in France besides a bit of jetlag (and a jetlag-fueled decision to re-arrange my room; promptly cut short by a near-death experience moving a 12-foot armoire all alone), some good classes (some not-so-good classes), a brief potential run-in with the flu epidemic sweeping western France (verdict's still not out on that one...), some nice long walks with friends (some old, some new; see below), and a cutesy wedding-themed party hosted by another assistant who  unfortunately had to miss her friend's wedding back in the States.

Tried way too hard to coax this lil' bugger off this wall.

So friendly!

GLEH. What are you.

Classic wedding photobooth!

Well that's it for now! Hopefully more interesting updates in the near future.

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