One week left.

Next Saturday, my two improbably heavy suitcases and I will take off for Charles de Gaulle airport. That's when my semester will begin, as I arrive in Paris, meet my host family, and start the last (fingers crossed, anyway) bureaucratic procedures required for my stay. This semester I'll be taking a full slate of college level courses in the French Université de Paris system, exploring France and maybe a few other bits of Europe, and doing some research for next year's Senior Project at Bard. Oh, and eating croissants. Lots of croissants.

I'm hoping that this blog will help me keep in touch with friends and family across the Atlantic, as well as a few who are a bit farther-flung. I'll be returning to the US in mid-January; until then, I'll be parlez-ing le français and blogging away.