Tonight was a nice and relaxing evening. I watched a couple of movies and just relaxed. I finally saw L'Auberge Espanole. For those of you who don't watch a lot of foreign or French films, this is a movie that is kind of a must see when you've been studying French, and not for the French, but more because it's a movie that is about traveling to a foreign country and trying to get a grasp on the language. It's a fun film and I'm actually really glad I waited until now to see it. The main character, Xavier, moves to Spain for a year to study abroad and work on his Spanish. I won't spoil the movie, but it just fits so well with what I hope to do. Hopefully I won't have to share an apartment with six other people, but I do hope to meet lots of people and learn another language.
In other news, my visa appointment was this past Thursday (8/5) and it seems to have gone quite smoothly. While I was waiting I met Maddie, a fellow teaching assistant! And get this, she's also from Baton Rouge! She'll be in Lyon, but hopefully our paths will cross at some point. After we finished at the consulate, she and I chatted for a while. She studied abroad in Aix and she was very insightful about living abroad. I have been asking anyone I know who has lived/traveled abroad what their pieces of advice are. So far it has been very helpful, and I'm hoping to find out more before I leave too. Hayley (my fellow teaching assistant and scholarship recipient) was able to come to Houston and spend the night with me at my grandmother's since her appointment was the following day. She and I are planning on traveling together. We are planning on meeting in Lafayette on Thursday to buy our tickets. We plan to purchase one-way tickets leaving out of New Orleans on September 15 and flying into Brussels. This trip is going to be awesome, but I still have so much planning to do! Only 1 month and 5 days till we leave! ONE MONTH AND FIVE DAYS...holy crap.
Oh, and before I forget, here's the link to our LPB interview. Click on the link that says "La Fondation Louisiane Scholars."
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