100 Goals For France!

In celebration of my going to Chicago last week to get all that visa business taken care of, and also receiving the President's grant for study abroad this week, here are my 100 (ish) goals for France. Some of them are big, some of them are just little things, lots of cliches, sights and well....a lot of food.

1. Go on the first ever plane of my life and some how make it to the CDG airport in Paris
2. Take the TGV from Paris and finally get to Besançon with everyone
3. Bring a gift to my host family! Something Michigan/Detroit
4. Keep a travel journal (written)
5. Survive my intensive course and regular courses!
6. Work on my listening skills!
7. Work majorly on grammar
8. Confidence when speaking French/to native speakers
9. Basically get fluent
10. Speak as little English as possible, French toujours!
11. Master French slang. Master it. 
12. Participate in a cultural club/activity at the CLA
13. Make French friends!
14. Make international friends (not from America)
15. Bond with everyone else from WMU going on the trip
16. Bring a WWT French Club shirt and take a picture with it somewhere, probably my that's what she said one because everyone always asks about it....
17. Disney Land Paris!
18. LA TOUR EIFFEL COMME  ELLE EST BELLE! Because I can't not take a thousand pictures of/with the icon of France
19. Try the fromage (cheese) and wine of Besançon/Franche-Comté
20. Seriously eat all the pastries ever, All of them.
21. And desserts. All of the crème brûlée!
22. The Louvre!
23. Musée d'Orsay- Museum in Paris that was an old train station
24. The palace of Versailles!
25. Eat at French Mcdonalds "chez Macdo"
26. Explore the little boutiques of Besançon
27. Explore the cafes of Besançon
28. Eat at a creperie or crepe stand
29. L'arc de triomphe- Arch of triumph in Paris
30. Read a book in Shakespeare & Co
31. "Paris la ville lumière" Paris at night!
32. La seine elle a coule et coule et coule....the seine river in Paris. Find the spot mentioned in the movies American in Paris and again in Charade with Audrey Hepburn
33. Put a lock on pont des arts-pedestrian bridge in Paris (pour ma petit ami)
34. See a move in a cinema
35. See a musical, play or opera in France
36. Sing "Aux Champs-Élysées" while walking down the Champs-Élysées (to be annoying)
37. Mail post cards to everyone!
38. Get my little sister and best friend fabulous (belated) birthday gifts
39. Explore a French grocery store/pharmacy and see the difference
40. Sing "Les temps des Cathédrales" at Notre Dame (to be obnoxious) 
41. Shop (and window shop) in Paris 
42. Find US/international brand shops in France
43. Rent a velib/velo/bike in Paris to get around (Oui, Mme I know that's a great way to get killed but I'll be okay)
44. Got to a French subway (the sandwiches not the metro)...because yes I did work there once and they're taking over the world.
45. Visit la citadelle and its museums in Besançon
46. Musee des beaux arts- museum in Besançon
47. Visit some of the old churches and cathedrals of Besançon- Eglise de la madeline
48. Visit a cemetery in France- perhaps the infamous Cimetière Père-Lachaise
49. As I have relatives in Germany perhaps contact them? As I'll be close to the boarder
50. Cook with my host family
51. Go sight seeing with my host family
52. There are apparently Roman remains in Besançon? find them
53. Go to the highest point of Besançon, the citadel?
54. Discover more French music/artists!
55. Discover some more French musicals
56. Watch French tv/news/movies
57. Thoroughly document my adventures here and with pictures! 
58. Make videos too if possible!
59. Use skype/google hangouts/technology to hangout with people from home!
60. Harry Potter in French! (books and movies)
61. Try French brands of clothing, make up, etc.
62. Explore gardens/parks (jardins)
63. Find one of my favorite English movies in French and watch it
64. Find ALL the wifi hotspots around town  spoiler alert: not that many
65. Find something commemorating Victor Hugo in Besançon! As he was born there (he wrote les mis and notre dame)
66. Master le metro/le bus/public transportation in a foreign country!
67. Attend a sporting event at the university
68. Exclaim that "Je parle Francais comme une vache espagnol" (I speak french like a spanish hen)
69. Visit another country that's not France
70. Recite one of the poems I learned by Jacques Prévert or whatever in high school, If I can still remember them we had one in class strangely enough
71. Kilomètre Zéro -in France if you touch it, you'll come back
72. Place de la concorde- the fountains based on the one in American in Paris
73. Find un chateau- a castle kind of in luxembourg
74. See a concert in France
75. Palais Garnier- opera house that inspired Phantom of the Opera
76. There's definitely a "Dino Zoo" in Besançon, I must go.
77. Dream about going to Euro Disney- maybe go, If I have money?
78. Celebrate Pâques/Easter! The only holiday while I'm in France, really
79. Go to a Bibliothèque-library, librarie- is a book store
80. Read a French newspaper/magazine
81. Play a French game/board game
82. Eat escargots (snails) in France, I've had them once here once in Canada
83. Buy a baguette because I'm obligated to...
84. Not get anything stolen by gypsies...
85. Buy ALL the cheap Eiffel tower key chains!
86. Not have any reaction to peanuts...they usually don't use peanut anything, but the Franche-Comté region uses nut oils apparently?
87. Go out/sortir with friends!
88. Go to a French soiree
89. Dijon! (mustard) Because I'm close to that region
90. Croissants for breakfast please
91. Enjoy our winter break! Last week of January in Paris
92. and then make the best of the long spring break (2 weeks)
93. Survive the family stay! Stay there (if we like eachother) or move into the (very tiny) dorms
94. Avenue Montaigne- Like that movie and the theatre cafe!
95. Find a famous little cafe in Paris like Les Deux Magots- where Ernest Hemmingway, Picasso, Camus
96. Find a French chain like Brioche Dorée- fast food not like ours, a cafe
97. Dress like a Parisian (learn how to...dark colors)
98. Eat something crazy like frog legs just to say I did FOIE GRAS! Fatten duck liver
99. Learn Besançon/how to get around very well
100. Pack up my life in that suitcase again...that's gonna be a bit difficult on the way there and back! I'm sure time's gonna fly