02 January 2009

In The Center Of The Ring, Just Like A Circus

So the day after Christmas, my beloved Dell laptop, Cesc (named forCesc Fàbregas) who started university with me and made the trek to Sevilla with me, decided to stop working after two and a half years of service.

Perhaps I should be glad he decided to crap out on me three weeks before I left for Paris, rather than in Paris. But I'm back on a brand new, shiny MacBook, who has yet to be named.

It is now 2009. Where does the time go? In less than two weeks, I'll be going to San Francisco with my parents to get my visa, hopefully see my childhood best friend, and then on the 17th of January, I'll get on a flight to Paris, France.

I'm so excited, yet so terrified. I'll be studying at a French university, doing most of my course work in French, a language I've been studying for six and a half years. I've been confident in my French skills before, navigating Paris for my best friend and her family, but I've never done an entire semester in French. I'm just nervous. I want to say this is just pre-departure jitters. I sure hope so. I really don't want to have a breakdown while I'm having a second chance to have the semester of a lifetime.

In other news, the twelve year old in me really loves Britney Spears' new album, Circus! I should really start packing too...