chers amis,
So this is my blog. Glad you made it here. Alas, I have joined the bandwagon and created a blog to chronicle my travels. For the first summer session, I will be studying abroad in Paris, France at the ESCP-EAP School of Management. I will be taking two marketing courses while across the Pond. As of May 25th, I will be out of the country for six weeks attempting to get educated and more importantly, cultured. This will be my first time outside the confines of the States.
This Spring, three of my friends from UT studied abroad: Laura in Hong Kong, Maggie in Perugia, Italy, and Katie in Paris. After a semester of blog-stalking, it is now my turn to revel in the new journeys of a foreign land and to document my escapades for my readers. For those of you who subscribed to the New York ventures of the summer past, welcome back.
And so I went: The title implies spontaneity, but don’t be fooled. If anyone is the antagonist to spontaneity, it’s me. I plan. I’m the kid who drew up her own floor plan for her restaurant when she was in elementary (Spices was the name. I even picked out plateware at World Market [big chunky ceramics]). I’m the kid who actually gave her agenda a name. And I am the kid who started planning this trip since last summer. So while the title suggests I woke up one morning and just decided to gallivant out of the country on a whim, what it really means is taking advantage of my last summer of college and just going – even though you don’t know anyone, you really don’t know any French, and don’t exactly know how you are going to pay for everything. You just go.
Unfortunately, I am not too witty. And I don’t intend to experience deep personal revelations while I am abroad. So I don’t expect this blog to extremely comedic or extremely moving. It will be a chronicle of six weeks of my life that just happens to take place in a little city called Paris (and a few fabulous weekend destinations).
Current itinerary leading up to my departure:
May 1 – May 16: Last week of classes, finals, wrapping up my internship
May 17: relocate to Houston
May 18: Two by Two Wine and Cheese event
May 19 – 24: Frantically packing, running errands, and cramming in some French study time
May 25: Au revoir
traveling tyro,
Kristin
6 comments:
Kristin -- I am so very proud of you. Have a wonderful time in Paris. I look forward to celebrating with you at the Two by Two Wine & Cheese Event. XO, Missy
yo tyro. i expect good things from this.
Enjoy the addiction that is blogging. And PS: I'm going to bet your blog has tons of wit, humor and revelations. So glad I got to talk to you last night!!
Kristen,
Hope your birthday was FABULOUS! And I disagree with you, you are extremely witty - I laughed out loud (by myself in my apartment) several times just by reading this blog entry! Anywho, I am so excited for you! I will be checking your blog frequently! :)
Love, Lyndsee
I'm so excited that you have joined the blogosphere, and I can't WAIT to stalk you while I'm back in Austin.
do you think we'll ever be face to face friends again? blogging is so 'IN' right now :)
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