I don't know if you caught this from my last post, but I am really excited to go to France. So excited that sometimes when I'm walking around campus I just randomly start smiling. This is mostly on account of I just had to tell myself it would be inappropriate to yell out FRANCE! which makes me laugh at myself.
But despite all the excitement, there are three things that manage to bring me down from this high and back to reality. They are (in reverse alphabetical order):
Paperwork
There is a ton of paperwork involved with studying abroad. Well, maybe not a ton, but a lot. Even when you think you've finished all the paperwork, more of it magically appears. First you have to apply for the program, then the school you're going to wants you to fill out more papers, and then your school wants you to fill out more papers. Oh, and don't forget you'll need a VISA, which also means... you guessed it! Many more papers.
Luckily I'm off to France, which is like the paper government of the world. Seriously, if there was a world government, France would be the people in charge of making people fill out all the paperwork. That's how much they love it.
Movies
Good Idea: Watching movies set in France in French. Especially musicals from the 1950s.
Bad Idea: Watching Taken 2. Cause then you'll be reminded of Taken 1. Which is the movie where the girl gets kidnapped and made to do, you know, bad stuff... IN FRANCE. Oops. Luckily I won't be going with a stupid roommate who will tell the kidnappers we're staying in an apartment by ourselves, I'll just be there by myself. Alone. Which is so much better.
Money
There is almost as much money involved in studying abroad as there is paperwork. And it's not even your money, it's borrowed money, that you're expected to pay back and stuff. And yet some people have found a way to quit school and just spend all their time traveling the world. Or maybe that's just my own personal dream. Either way I need to figure out how to make that happen.
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