Good days!

Well last Friday was a great day for many reasons. I:

• saw the Mediterranean!
• ate Mexican food for the first time since December
• received a good grade on a project that I was really unsure about
• received an email asking for an interview for an interesting internship this summer!

It was a great start to a good weekend. API took us to Nice, St. Tropez, and a little village named Eze for the weekend. It was a very nice trip with some great beach time and great weather. I really enjoy spending time with the other students from API who do not go to my school. The girls are hilarious and always make for a good time. We don't get to hang out too much outside of excursions because our schools are on the opposite side of town and we have very different schedules. Seeing the French beaches was interesting... let's just say they like skin and have very little inhibitions about showing it! The Sea is very beautiful!, so blue, and so clear! (Someday I think that I would really like to go on a Mediterranean cruise.)

School is going well. It's slowing down a bit which is nice. The above mentioned project was one my last presentations and now I mainly have final exams to prepare for. I still have 5 weeks left of school but there are a couple of long weekends thrown in there for French holidays so it shouldn't be to bad.

Things for the summer are starting to shape up. I have a couple of possible internships that I'm interviewing for. One is with the American Lung Association and the other is with planIt Omaha. They are both event planning internships in Omaha. Hopefully they will pay enough and be flexible enough to work as a job for both the summer and fall. We'll see what happens!

Speaking of summer, the countdown has begun... 37 days and I will be back on American soil. I can see the end! It has been such a great growing experience being here; it's hard to believe that it is almost over! At the same time, I'm really excited to be back at home and see what God has planned next.

Well, I should get back to work. Here are pictures of mon weekend á la mer!

Love from France,

Ashlie