15 days. 360 hours. 21600 minutes. Let the countdown begin until I’m back home again. Soon it will all be over and I will be finding myself trying to adjust back into my old life, style, habits…It seems so weird to me that this year is almost at its end. It seems like just yesterday that I got on the plane to start this exchange year, and now I’m going home and leaving it all behind. Right now I’m feeling mixed emotions; happy to go home and see friends and family, sad to leave all the amazing people I’ve met here, nervous to see how everyone has changed and to see what people think of me after being gone for a year, excited to see what my future will bring. One thing for sure is that this was the best year yet and I couldn’t have pictured it in any other way.

Anyway, what will I be doing in my last 2 weeks here? Tomorrow is off to Rocamadour (south of France) for 3 days with my host mom and sister. It’s supposedly a beautiful old town built into the rocks and with lots of history and cool things to see. After, I’ll come back to Toulouse for one day to pack and say my final goodbyes, etc as the next day I will be headed off to La Baule (NW France) with my second host family to spend 10 days at the beach. I’ll be coming back the 17th giving me just one more day in Toulouse before hitting home bright and early the next morning. Donc, du coup, I will be busy, busy, bussssssssyyyyyyyyy!

And now some updates on my last few weeks: School for me ended June 10th as I didn’t have to pass the BAC. And since then, I’ve been bombarded with things to do. One, I took my SATs at the Intl School and did really well so I’m happy that that’s out of the way. Two, I changed over my school marks into the American system and got good grades which I’m super happy about as this year counted for me. After, I’ve been busy going to everyones end of the year partys, going away partys, get togethers, Rotary meetings, biking events, concerts, etc. I feel like I’m never home. I also got to go to Spain twice—once with my host family on a boat to Cadaques (super pretty and the town where Salvador Dali was from) and the other time to Madrid where I got to see one of my best friends as well as my brother and his friend who were traveling thru there for a few days!  Lots of funnnn!!!!!! Toulouse has a lot of festivals during the summer and esp in June and I got to experience the Rio Loco, a really cool intl music festival (this year the theme was Mexican/latin American), as well as the Music Festival where people play all sorts of music at all hours of the day and night and where you see literally everyone of Toulouse out and about in the city! I really have not had that much down time since the end of school with all the exciting things that have been going on.

Can’t think of more to write right now, sooo good night everyone!!!