When I talk about "we" I am not being clever or conceited. I am here with Laird, Gooey, and Jeremy. Added to that group is Marie, Julie, and Johanna who are the French girls who came to Bryn Athyn last school year. So unless I am specific, all the "we"s that I have been talking about, is all of us.
It is nice to have a whole group of people here with me. When I first signed up for the program I didn't think about how hard it would be to be in a foreign country with absolutely no one that I knew. I mean, I did think that it would be hard, but I didn't really think about how scary it can be to just walk around and not understand the people around you. So I am really really grateful that I have these boys around to be American with me, and to have the French girls around to speak french for me :)
On Wednesday night we went out to celebrate Marie's birthday (even though that day was not her actual birthday). We decided to go to this smallish English pub. It was there that I realized how simple an introduction can be. I mean, in the States I was always shy to start to talk to someone that I didn't know. It took a lot of effort or maybe a specific reason for me to talk to anyone I didn't already know. Here though, all it takes is listening for English and then asking where they come from.
This is how we met Eric and Kieth. They were sitting at the table next to us, enjoying their own drinks, when it came obvious that all of us in that corner were talking English. Keith then asked me where we were from, and they ended up sitting at our table for the rest of the evening. It really was fun to meet some other Americans who were studying at Bordeaux. We have seen Eric since, but until the Superbowl, I doubt that we will run into either again.
I say the Superbowl because, being American boys, the boys have already found an American pub that is going to be showing the Superbowl, and maybe letting us stay in the bar after it closes to watch the whole thing. When Eric and Keith heard this, they wanted in. Oh boys.
I have stories, but I think I will put them in their own post.... so see you later!
It is nice to have a whole group of people here with me. When I first signed up for the program I didn't think about how hard it would be to be in a foreign country with absolutely no one that I knew. I mean, I did think that it would be hard, but I didn't really think about how scary it can be to just walk around and not understand the people around you. So I am really really grateful that I have these boys around to be American with me, and to have the French girls around to speak french for me :)
On Wednesday night we went out to celebrate Marie's birthday (even though that day was not her actual birthday). We decided to go to this smallish English pub. It was there that I realized how simple an introduction can be. I mean, in the States I was always shy to start to talk to someone that I didn't know. It took a lot of effort or maybe a specific reason for me to talk to anyone I didn't already know. Here though, all it takes is listening for English and then asking where they come from.
This is how we met Eric and Kieth. They were sitting at the table next to us, enjoying their own drinks, when it came obvious that all of us in that corner were talking English. Keith then asked me where we were from, and they ended up sitting at our table for the rest of the evening. It really was fun to meet some other Americans who were studying at Bordeaux. We have seen Eric since, but until the Superbowl, I doubt that we will run into either again.
I say the Superbowl because, being American boys, the boys have already found an American pub that is going to be showing the Superbowl, and maybe letting us stay in the bar after it closes to watch the whole thing. When Eric and Keith heard this, they wanted in. Oh boys.
I have stories, but I think I will put them in their own post.... so see you later!
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