Prête pour Paris ?

In exactly a month's time, it'll be the night before the big move to Paris for an entire university year...

Terrifying? Yes. Exciting? You betcha. I've downloaded an app (excitingly called French Vocab) onto my phone to try & rapidly recover the French vocabulary that should be on the tip of my tongue. As I write, I'm trying to absorb French via France Info Radio playing in the background. The first few weeks are going to be interesting!

(remarkably useful vocab ^)

So many things to do before I go – finish up my internship at a tiny publishing house, see friends, go on a family holiday to Rome (very excited!), pack & make sure I'm fully armed for tackling French bureaucracy head on. I've been advised to turn up with about 30 passport photos of myself, which gives me some kind of worrying idea about how many forms I might be expected to fill in!

Despite my hopes & dreams I will never look like a yé-yé girl...

I heard this read out yesterday at my family's church:

'Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such & such a town & spend a year there & trade & make a profit” - yet, you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time & then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live & do this or that”. (James 4v13-5).

It just made me think. I'm going to be a very small fish in a ve-ery big pond and I can't guarantee that this year abroad will be an amazing experience. I've just got to trust that although I'm not in control of what is going to happen in Paris - it's part of a bigger plan!

driving home last night with Tommo

I'm thankful that I've got my little room sorted, in more or less the centre of the city. I know (vaguely) of a few people who will be nearby..

The next time I post, I will probably be in Paris – eeeeeeeeek!

À bientôt ! 

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