Allez à la France!!!

Hey everyone, and welcome to my blog. I'm going to be keeping track of my adventures in Tours, France this summer as I go for a summer study abroad program run by Georgetown University at the Institut de Touraine.

First off, I have to give credit where credit is due. I must recognize my buddy Ed for giving me the inspiration to do this! Thanks Ed! We miss ya and can't wait til you get back from Argentina!

Thanks also to everyone who is following my blog, as well as to everyone who has helped make this trip possible! (wink wink Mom and Dad)

Anyways, I'm super excited to be heading out tomorrow evening! I really hope to get a lot out of my trip: lots of new experiences, learning about French culture, and hopefully a bit of improvement on my French! I have two flights worth about 15 hours of travel time to get me to Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport, and then take the TGV (a sweet high-speed superconducting train-expect nerdy posts like this-haha!) down to Tours on Friday. I'll head to a hotel to meet the rest of my group, check-in, take the language pledge, and then get going. I won't be meeting my host family until Sunday, so I probably won't post again until then. So for now...

Bon voyage!!!