A Little Eccentric

Au revoir....

Bonjour all!
I wish I had more to report. I have just been trying to wrap up things as best as possible in Tours. I have the rest of this week, one more week, 4 days in Amsterdam, then I leave as soon as I get back. I’ll be here for my birthday, but I’ll have gotten home very late the night before and will be leaving for Paris early the next morning so I don’t know what all I’ll have time to do.
Last night we all went and saw the Da Vinci Code. It came out here before the US. It was very good, but unfortunately was dubbed rather than using sub-titles so I missed out on a lot of subtleties in the dialogue. I could follow it all right since I’ve read the book, but some parts were really hard to understand. One thing that is weird about Tours…their French has no accent. They speak really clear French, and I can really tell the difference now when I hear Parisian or southern accents, just like we have in the US. There were a few of those in the movie, which made it kinda difficult. Oh well, it was still pretty good. I recommend it when it comes out there.
My emotions have been haywire lately. I want to come home, but I think I am greatly anticipating reverse-culture shock, as are the other people I hang out with. We get randomly sad or excited to get home, but we are all scared of what it will be like, if that makes sense. Its like we all had this amazing, stressful, difficult, wonderful 5 months, and soon it will all be over. No more castles, cathedrals, discotheques, meeting people from all over the world, new foods, French, etc. We go back to our normal lives as different people. We want to share and talk about our experience but know it will drive everyone crazy. I don’t want to be obnoxious, but I want to tell the world about what I’ve gone through and learned. Plus, I hate the idea of never seeing people again, or being able to do things again. It’s like graduating from high school, only about 10 times worse.
Two of the other Americans, Jess and Tija, just left today. I just really started hanging out with them about a month ago, but I am really sad about them leaving. They made the last month wonderful, and I had lots of fun with them. I hope I could visit them in North Carolina or they could come visit me. Its really hard to keep saying goodbye to people. I only wish I could have known them longer here.
So that’s life in Tours. See you all in two weeks!

posted by Molly Jo @ 7:54 AM