Well ladies and gentlemen, I am fortunate enough to have occasion to re-open this blog. I've just arrived in Grenoble, France for a 5 week study abroad. It's been a long journey, so I'm really tired and will keep this short.
The city is beautiful. It's basically a mini-Paris with the Wasatch front mountains wrapped around it. Except these mountains look more....French. I'll post some pictures.
Nothing too eventful on the way here, one of my connecting trains was running late so I missed the second connection, but I just had to wait an hour to catch the one after it.
So my host mom was on her way back from Turin and couldn't pick me up from the station, so she had her cute 70 year old friend, Nicole, come get me. She was such a nice lady. She took me to her apartment, and after I showered and got rid of that traveling stank she took me down to the little park behind her apartments where all of her neighbors were.
There were a couple of Italians there, and I spoke to them for a bit too. One of them asked me when I said I was from Salt Lake "Are you a Mormon??" I said "Yes, but I'm nice I promise!" They all laughed at that. He said he had worked with some Mormons, and actually had gone to israel on business with a couple of them. So there you go.
Side note- none of these people have spoken english at all. My french has improved like 5x in the past 6 hours I've been here, I'm pretty sure I'll be a freaking boss by the time I leave this place.
So then my host mama came and picked me up after a couple hours. Her name is Heléne, and she is also adorable. Just the nicest lady. Her daughters are on their way back from a weekend up in Paris visiting their dad, so I won't get to meet them until tomorrow. I have my own little loft room, and it's very cozy and comfy and just laying down on this bed is pretty blissful at this point.
Oh and there's Wi-Fi here so we're all going to be ok. Phew.
I'll post pictures and things later.
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