I am still alive!

Well, this blog experience is again proving that journaling is not one of my strong points! For those of you back home, I again apologize for the gaps in updates.

There are a couple of reasons for my lack of posts. The first is that I have been able to do a lot of traveling during the last month. That also means that I have lots of pictures to post and share! However, in turn has made my schedule more unstable which led to the lack of posts. My trips have included: a day trip to Avignon for my birthday, a weekend trip to Milan, Italy, a weekend excursion with my study abroad program to Beaune and Dijon, followed by a wonderful week with Eric visiting and showing him some of the surrounding sites, and concluded with a week showing my family some of France! They were all great experiences in their own ways and I will expound on them further.

After I finished my traveling, I had to come back to the real life of a student and have become buried in large projects for my classes! I have 5 major projects on my plate that are all due between the dates of April 17th and May 7th!! So between doing research, scheduling and attending group meetings(4 of them are to be done in groups), and keeping on top of my regular coursework, let's just say that I have spent a lot of time at school this week!! Just yesterday I was able to chat with my best friend who, last spring, obtained her handy piece of paper declaring her a college graduate. I told her that at the moment, I was very jealous of the piece of paper! Mine will come in time, I believe that I have three semesters left after this one. So, the end is in sight even if it still feels like a long ways off!

Speaking of which, I need to head back to school for a French exam so those of you reading this now... check back later and I will update this post!

More to come soon!

Ashlie