Last night as my first night at my French house, I had a small breakdown and began literally crying to God. I cried out telling Him how much I miss home and everyone and the comforts it has. I also ended up crying out that I miss Him. Realizing that I miss Him gave me the realization that He's the only one right now I can do something about missing because He's here with me...always.
Waking up with that realization was an alright way to start the day today. I got up and dressed and had a nice little breakfast. Then Christiane showed me how to get to school...we took the bus for about 10 min then we got off and had to walk about 25 more min, luckily it had stopped raining at that point. When I got there, she left me and I met up with Sandra. Her and I chated a bit until Alex got there. A girl from Sweeden is staying at his house too so we got to meet her...her name is Rebecca. She seems pretty sweet and is really good at French. We had to take a written exam and an oral exam so they knew where to place us for classes. We had an hour for the written and after that they saw us one at a time for the oral part. The written part wasn't terrible, some easy some hard. The oral part, for me, was really difficult. The professor who I spoke with spoke really fast, so I left that feeling discouraged! Alex and Sandra both had a nice professor who spoke slowly. After we were all done with our exams, the 4 of us went to find some lunch. We found a cute little cafe and had some crepes. After lunch we walked around for just a little before heading back to school for a tour of the city. The tour was alright except it poured rain the whole time. After the tour we just kinda hung out until the classes were posted. They had a little welcome reception with cheap wine and some small snacks. When we found out our classes, I was a little sad to learn I was lower then Alex and Sandra(who's only had a couple years...) I'm thinking I just didn't do well on oral, but maybe once I'm in class, I might get moved up, or I'll just get really good grades in the lower level class. After that we left school and wandered back towards town for a while until we decided to go our separate ways home. It was good today to be around people and friends. It is at night, I'm learning, that I miss home the most because I am alone. Two months is still seeming like a very long time...again, hopefully things will get better...
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Hey Emily,
Hope that it will get better all the time! I'll be praying for you.
What part of Annecy are you in? My patron "Saint" (Anne de Guigne) is from there (well she is really just venerable, but still).
I hope that it will make you laugh to tell you that I teach french at snacktime to my preschoolers in an attempt to have some french conversation every day. They know one to two dozen words and phrases now, what quality conversations we have. (^_^)
~~~ Kim
My life is stressed and full of pain, But I am not alone, someone that's very close to me, for many years I known. When I am sad and weary, my friend is always there, never doubting that I need Him, living in His infinite care. When I can't sleep at night time, do things that I need to do, I'll have a talk with my friend, His guidance I'll pursue. Even though my quality of life, is not what I'd like it to be, my dearest friend, My Jesus, is always there for me.
You are being thought of, prayed for, and loved.
God bless you!
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