Liz studies abroad!: The first couple days

So it's kind of silly that the plane was the thing I was most worried about as it was the smoothest thing! It went quite smoothly, although I didn't sleep and I only got 3 hours of sleep that Thursday night before...
So when I got to the airport I checked my email to see our professor wouldn't be meeting up with us, I was waiting alone for a bit until I happened to run into one person from western and then more!
We took the bus to Paris-Gare de lyon where we though we'd be taking the train.

We couldn't print our tickets so we had to go to information for that then we discovered it wasn't this station...so we had to take the metro/subway which was a bit confusing and so not fun with lots of luggage. Dragging it around was so obnoxious. We got to the Bercy station and then to our connection in Dijon and then to Besancon where we just walked the long way to the hotel finally. I probably didn't sleep for 30+ hours, which definitely messed up my brain for sure. I do like all of the people on this trip, we've bonded in a very short time period. I'm sort of in denial that i'll be here for a longish stay still. As nice as it is I'm still very homesick but school should do something about that. In traveling I've learned:
-If you look like you've been crying/etc airline people will be really nice to you
-Parisians will basically laugh at your struggles
-You could learn French from the book for many years and still not feel prepared because that's what this experience is for.
I feel like my French is very rusty, I've taken it for soo many years but you forget things and it's hard to remember when you're here and you have to talk in French and it's even a bit intimidating, but I know it's going to get better over time.
On to Besancon,