Last Day

Sorry that I haven't been blogging much, this last week after the festival has gone by so quickly that I've been running around trying to get everything in order before school ended. I'm now currently in Edinburgh, Scotland staying at Emily Reed's house here until Saturday.

The last day of school ended on Friday and my class, which has been together for all four months, had a petite fete with our Professor, Giselle. She is a lovely French woman who has two daughters, around 30 and 20 I think. She used to be an actress when she was younger and she is just one of those stylish, fun people who loves to chat and enjoy the joie de vivre. She is the one who took us to Mougin for a cafe. We gave her flowers and a picture frame as a goodbye gift. It was sad to see her go, but nice to have gotten to spend time with her. I hope that I will get to see her again in the future.

Later that day, Reed and I were able to drop off our extra baggage that we don't want to cart around at one of her family friend's basements. We are planning to come back to Cannes our last day and pick them up.

In the evening we had the Blue Moon Soiree and we dressed up and celebrated our last night at the College with cocktails and a saxaphone player.

At this point, it seems surreal that my time in Cannes has ended. As cliche as it sounds, I have changed. This experience has been so intense and so eye-opening that I can't imagine how someone could come here and not leave a bit different. The French way of living and the constant time for discussions at the college allow you to examine your life a lot and to try to figure out what the important stuff is all about. Also, being away from Southern California has really helped to get a perspective about the rest of the world and what is important. The celebrity stuff and the Hollywood-ness of being so close to LA has much smaller of an effect on the people around the world and I have thought more and more about the point of it all. I don't know at this point how that will effect what I do in the future, but often, it seems, thought leads to action, which is always a vehicle for change.

I'm looking forward to my travels ahead, but the more I am away, the more I look forward to coming home and seeing my family and friends; the poeple who are reading this right now. I'll try to keep everyone updated on where I am and I'll try to put up some of my thoughts about the festival soon.