As of Saturday, my classmates and I have been in Aix for 3 weeks, which is both easy and hard to believe. On the first day of orientation, our program director described to us a theory that it takes an average of 21 days to form a habit in her motivational lectures she used to get us psyched up for our language contract we all signed committing us to speaking French 100% while here. The way she described it, at the 21 day mark, we wouldn't default back to English when conversing with classmates, but it doesn't appear that that has quiet happened, yet. But, like a flicking a light switch off in the middle of the night, on our 21st day in Provence, summer was over.
I feel like someone just burst my bubble.
Don't get me wrong, I haven't been sulking since it started to get cold, but GOSH was that unexpected! I feel like there should have been better warning. For three weeks, we've been trapped in hot classrooms and felt obligated to eat ice cream to cool off in the afternoon (or, because it's simply irresistible). Today, I wore one of my heavier sweaters as a jacket and still shivered inside and outside! Maybe the cooler temps will help reality set in that I am actually in school and not on a dream vacation, but it certainly was a drastic change after three weeks of mild summer weather.
In other news, all the hype about Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" is true–the one thing I have to say that I really like her lyrics on the songs I've been listening to that haven't made the radio yet. Tristan wrote about it in his column here so check it if you're interested, he's one of our best writers for the Denisonian!
I hope the weather.com predictions of low 70s hold to be true so I can give my summer clothes one last spin!
à tout (bien sûr!!),
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You know, I feel like comments validate blog posts. So I am commenting, because let's be honest, I read your blog all the time. I just click on it sometimes to make sure it's still there. Love you and bummer that it's getting colder--though I just had to walk through a storm to get to my bed. Granted I drove down to bryant instead of walking, so it wasn't that bad, but still. BRRRRRR. Love you like mad and hope you have happy weather! I am now going to try and write an entire paper. Or maybe just half of one. I might also just go to sleep. We'll see. <3 :)
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