Oops, guess it's been a while...

So, life has been a little nuts.  It is officially 34 days til we come home.  When I arrived, it was 226.  How did this happen?  I don't have time to write (8h30 class tomorrow and then a busy day full of more lovely French paperwork!), but I think my current state of mind is best summed up by the following gchat convo I had with Annah today:

5:20 PM me: i'm feeling so stressed

  we're leaving on sunday

  for 10 days

  when we get back, i'll be in tech week/performance week

  the next week will be our last week in the apartment so we have to pack and clean

  and then we'll be in paris for like, 3 or 4 days

  and then we're coming homeeeeee

5:18 PM Annah: holy shit!

5:20 PM me: i KNOW

  so anyways

 Annah: yeah

5:21 PM me: i reformatted my resume again

  added g.k. to my references

5:22 PM Annah: lovely

5:23 PM me: he sent me the cutest email back when i asked him

5:24 PM Annah: :)

5:25 PM me: then he updated me on his dog

  i have to say, cherubs was not this perfect, magical experience, and nor has been france.

  but the residual effects they have both had on my life have been ... a really great thing

5:26 PM for one, i think they've changed my life path -- i really do want to teach high school ish now -- and i've got some wonderful people that i still talk to and that's real good  

So, I'm currently dealing with this re-evaluative phase of my life.  Where do I go from here, what have I learned from where I've been, WHO AM I?  But all in all, and despite the current stressors, I am wildly content with life.  I have a solid group of friends in Rouen, I have an extremely solid group of friends and family waiting for me at home, I have a wonderful boyfriend who makes my everyday life a joy, and I still have more than one month in France so I can squeeze as much out of my experience as possible.  No, this year has not been what I thought it would be in many ways; for one, I don't have a ton of French friends, I don't feel impressively fluent in the language, and I'm not a perfect teacher.  But that's not what this year has been about, and that's okay by me.