So I was not going to write a blog cause I didn't know if I would have time to update it enough, but I decided that it would probably be a good idea, since it would be impossible to tell everyone all that I did when I got home after being here for 5 months.
I arrived in Dijon at my host family's house yesterday evening and as I was unpacking I finally started to realize I was going to be in this room and this new house for 5 whole months! Up until now it felt like we were just on vacation because we were constantly moving around from Edinburgh to London to Paris, but now we are finally at our home bases! It is really exciting but at the same time completely overwhelming, because it is so hard to switch gears completely to another language and sometimes I just want to speak English. I thought my French would be fine since I could speak with our director in Paris and I could converse with the Parisiens, but now I know that they were just speaking very slow since they knew we were Americans.
Once I arrived here the French sped up so much and I couldn't follow half of the dinner conversation, but my host mom is really nice and understanding, so every so often she would summarize the conversation for me. Also since my head is full of so much information my French isn't as good as it could be, but I am sure it will get better with time.
To get over all the stress and being overwhelmed of being in a house by myself, I went into town for the saturday morning market and I met a friend from my program there, Justine. That helped a lot to have someone to vent back and forth with and just to get over all the nervousness. Also the market was so cute, I definitely want to go back cause they have boots and clothes for 20 Euros which is amazing for here.
That's all for now because I need to go finish unpacking, but I will update again soon.
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