Countdown

I leave France in less than one week.

Ok, I’m not actually going straight home, but I will be soon enough. I can’t believe it! Where has the time gone? It’s simultaneously taking forever and flying by. In 3 weeks, I’ll be back in Maryland. Here is my agenda in the meantime-

June 4-9: Fly to Amsterdam. Staying with my friend Rabiah, who somehow lucked out and got a research grant or something to work on her PhD there for the summer. Highlight will be seeing a familiar face, and maybe visiting the van Gogh museum. Or maybe Rabiah’s 3 Dutch guy roommates….hmmm…….

June 9-11: Fly to Geneva to meet Justin, Sam, Heather, and Lori. We will all be spending quite a bit of time in close proximity for the duration of the trip. This is going to be really fun, or we may actually kill each other between June 10th and June 17th. We’ll be in Geneva for 2 days. Right now the highlight is a tour of the CERN laboratory. Physics isn’t really my thing, but the boys are geeking out about it. This should be amusing.

June 11-14: Copenhagen. And Rabiah will be flying over from Amsterdam for this leg of the journey. Highlights include vikings, beer, and a trip across the bridge to Sweden.

June 14-17: Barcelona. I am really excited about this part. Everyone that goes there seems to fall in love with it. The only downer is a pickpocketing problem…and the fact that it’s probably going to be about a million degrees. Highlight- paella.

June 17-19: Back in Nice. Say goodbye to host family, pick up luggage, and try to enjoy my last 2 days on the Mediterranean, despite the fact that the Mediterranean hates me. Seriously, I was out for an hour today and fried. One hour!! Need higher SPF sunscreen, which these Frenchies don’t seem to believe in. I’m starting to think the stuff they market as sunscreen around here is actually baby oil or something.

June 20: HOME, where I'm sure that my cat will hate me forever for leaving her with her nemesis (my roommate) for 5 months.

Starved for attention and begrudgingly sitting in
Lori's lap