Excitement!!

Hi guys!!
Just wanted to do a quick post before I depart for 2 full weeks of traveling, 16 days actually! I don't think I have ever been on a trip for this long and I am super excited. Most of all, I am excited, thrilled, ecstatic to see my parents. Obviously, they are really cool people and although I don't see them much when I am at school for a semester, I have missed them more when I am abroad than ever! I also am just so glad they get this chance to come to Europe and see the most wonderful city ever- Paris! I hope they fall in love with it like I did! After they leave, the fun doesn't end....I go to the south of France to meet my sister Jackie's bff and roommate- Jill, who is doing a grad school fellowship in Geneva. We are going to spend Easter weekend together soaking up the sun in Nice and taking day trips to Monaco and other fabulous little cities. Then I head to my base course study trip for my Hitler class- we will be going to Prague, Auschwitz, and Crakow! Should be super informative and amazing. I can't really believe these next two weeks- is my life real?!
My train departs for Paris in about 2 hours- ahh! I think I am all packed and ready- hopefully I didn't forget anything!

This week has mainly been devoted to tying up lose ends and getting everything together. It has been beautiful in Differdange, so I have taken several nice walks and runs which has been great. Yesterday, I discovered a glorious bike trail- I literally ran through the Lux countryside passing by villages, farms, and sheep on the way, it was so cool. I was quite stressed mid week about some passport/laundry issues- basically Wed morning I thought I wouldn't have my passport back (from the Lux gov who is doing visa stuff) or my laundry clean by Friday and I was freaking out. In the end though, Crici, our housing director worked miracles and I got both in time, hooray!

One sad thing, it is rainy today in Lux and the forecast for Paris does not look so good- basically calling for light rain every day!! I really hope light rain just means some drizzle and that we at least get a day or two of sunshine! Either way though, I know Paris will be great and we just have to look on the bright side and tough it out.

I'm going to try to keep up with the blog to some extent while away, so look for posts. I may even try to convince my Pops to write a guest post, which I am sure would be quite amusing for all. Have a fantastic two weeks everyone, I miss you!!

Care