"Not every girl gets to go to Paris"

As everything starts to come together...now's the time to get nervous, it's finally hitting me. If you know me at all, you've know I've been dreaming about going to France for quite a while now. 4 years of high school French, a year and a half of College French, about 5 years of French under my belt and I guess I'm about as ready as I'll ever be. 

It is such an amazing opportunity to be able to go and study abroad, and I don't want to be all "wahhh home wahhh western" because I know I'm going to miss everyone, it's equally as hard to give up a semester of going to an amazing university here and being surrounded by friends, and people I love! I know many don't have this opportunity and I'm extremely lucky.I'm also one that believes that life begins when you step outside your comfort zone. College and being away from home was one step, being very far away but also fulfilling my dreams and working on my French is definitely the next one. The next step in learning and becoming fluent for sure.

In the movie Sabrina, Audrey Hepburn's character is sent away to cooking school in France and emerges a whole different sophisticated person. Maybe the thing I need to do is just throw myself in.

A musical that I grew up watching American in Paris

Getting the chance to do all the tourist things I learned about in high school and more

I guess just thank you all for supporting my dreams & believing in me! It's hard to get up and leave my life, friends, family, here to pursue them but know I love you all! This still really isn't hitting me yet. Also hang out with me during break if you have the chance! If you want a postcard let me know and that donation button in the sidebar goes to my expenses/rent/etc while I'm in France.

“Paris isn’t for changing planes,” Audrey Hepburn says to Humphrey Bogart in Sabrina, “it’s for changing your outlook! For throwing open the windows and letting in…letting in la vie en rose.”