June 22

Friday, June 22, 2007

Today will be simple to write about. It went something like this:

-Woke up at 6:30 because I wanted to go for a run. But, it was raining so I went back to bed until 7:30.

-Braded Eva’s hair before 8am and said good bye. She was really, really sad! She is so cute!!

-Went for a run until 9am…it had stopped raining by that point

-Had breakfast. Made a sandwich for dinner. Finished packing. Showered.

-Mme Lenfant was at the house not long after 10:00 to pick me up and take me to Paris. I didn’t even say good bye to Elisa because she was basically not at the house for the past 2 days…and didn’t bother waking up to say bye!

-At the train station, I said good-bye to Mme Lenfant, reaffirmed the fact that I want to continue helping out with OSEF, and proceeded to sit in the train station for 4 hours! It was long…but it’s the “hurry up and wait” philosophy!

I arrived in Toulouse after 2 trains and 7 hours in them…it was long, and I am happy that I am sleeping for the ride back to Paris. That will help the time go by. Sophie was there waiting for me – she hasn’t changed at all! It was totally great! And so great to see her too!!
Dani’s friend has a car, so they also came to pick me up – a good thing, because my “carry-on” weighs a ton!! Dani is at an engineering school for airplanes here in Toulouse and Sophie is doing her summer internship for Chemistry here in Toulouse so they can actually see each other.
Sophie is renting a little (and I mean little!!) residence room at the “University Paulsabatier”, which is a huge campus next to the canals that run to Toulouse centre. It actually only costs her 75 Euros a month to rent the room (which is a good thing because tonight will be the first night she actually sleeps at her place)!!
Anyway…we are sleeping in Sophie’s little “cupboard” for the next 6 nights. It promises to be an adventure with no fridge, microwave, and showers and toilets down the hall…kind of like the Venice camping all over again! So, technically, there won’t be any problem at all!!!
It is sooo good to see Sophie again!!

Night

-Allison