Day One

Greetings from France!

So, we just got a moment to sit down and realized that there is wireless internet and Cathy has a laptop! Hooray!

So here's what has gone down within the last couple of days.

Columbus to Detroit: ran 20 minutes late! GAH!
Detroit to Amsterdam: Cathy and I couldn't find anybody to switch seats with us, so I was alone the entire time! One good thing is that you could watch whatever movie you wanted and play games and stuff on the computer! Anyways, so I did not sleep on the airplane at all. In fact, it's 5:51 p.m. here and I have had exactly one hour of sleep on the bus from Marseille to Avignon since I left Columbus on Thursday. woot woot. P.S. I totally got my passport stamped in Amsterdam! WOOT!
Amsterdam to Marseille: I had my first french test when the flight attendant (who spoke like 800 languages) asked me: Et vous, est-ce que vous voulez un boission? Which was interesting because she was just picking the language to speak to people based on how the look, I guess. I guess I look French!

Anyways....when we finally got here we went to a cafe and I ordered a croissant and a diet coke (which was 3 bucks! GAHH! I hate airport food!) in French.....and that went well.

Katy came into the luggage claim and found us and we went outside and met up with Christophe (the director). Then after waiting awhile we went to a mall like place where I ordered a sandwich. Okay, so are you getting the idea that I'm amused by my conversations with real French people? lol. And also some guy followed me out of the mall asking if I wanted to sign up to win a laptop and I was like, "Ummm....no, merci". lol. I can get rid of solicitors in French! HOORAY! Anyways, so after that we drove from Marseille to Avignon where I fell asleep for an hour on the bus (or rather passed out from exhaustion).

Then we checked into the hotel and I showered, and Christophe gave us an itinerary and now I'm just sitting. Thank god tonight we only have dinner at 7:30 (where I will buy my first glass of wine! WOOT!)

May I just say that after dinner I plan to come back here and fall asleep! *sigh*

So, I don't really have that many pictures right now, but here's what I got:

So here's Giorgio on the airplane as we arrived in Amsterdam! Giorgio says "Hey girl hey!"


Here's my bed and half of Cathy in the hotel room!


Here are the super awesome stairs to the second level of our hotel room. We're on the first part because we're lazy.


Here's the view from our window....swizeet! Look how small the streets are! And there's that big rock thing...I don't know what it is, but it's FRENCH ROCKS!!!!!!

So I'm really tired and going to take a nap and enjoy this jet-lag-y feeling....

I miss all of you and look forward to updating you again! I might post more pictures later tonight or tomorrow morning before I meet with my host mom....we'll see, we'll see. <3 <3 <3

A bientot,
Amanda