Little Chats

I can hardly believe that it is almost Spring Break time. After we get back from vacation, we will be changing teachers, which is a real bummer, because my teacher now is so great. Yesterday, she went on and on about how much she liked our class and how great we were. She also said that she rarely gives out compliments, so it was pretty rad. Hopefully we will get this other professor, Sylvie who is supposed to be pretty good too.

My friends Jo (AKA Josie) and Andres are both leaving next weekend. I will be sad to see them go, I wish they could stay longer. I think some of my friends are going to Amsterdam in a couple of weeks and will visit Josie then. That's always the most difficult part of meeting new people: so often you have to say goodbye to them. As you get older, you have to deal more and more with the fact that you may not see them again, or it may be a very long time until you do. It's ok though, we you realize how you've changed or bettered yourself because you got to know them.
We were talking about the wat our views had changed since we've been here and met each other. It's funny the things that people never think about until they finally do. My friend Emily from Scotland, for example, told me that she never really thought about what a big deal it is for Americans to go to Europe. How much money it costs, the time, the planning that it takes for the average American to get to Europe, or outside of the country at all. I think once you get perspective about that, it makes it easier to understand shocking nuances of a culture, for example, how so many Americans don't even have a passport or how so few speak just one other language from their own. It doesn't excuse the culture ignorances by any means, but it does help to understand why things happen the way that they happen.

My friend Emily from New York is applying for transfer to the American University in Paris, and is waiting to here from them any day now. She wants to move to Europe and is very excited about being an Expat. I gotta say, I hope she gets in, because I know she'll really like it. I don't think I could do that--move away from the States to a foreign country to live there and take up the culture. It's just not in me to work that way. I think I'm just a little to American. That, and mom would not be down for it, lol.

Alright, enough for now, I'm finished rambling.