crawling to the end

And so we are reaching the end of term. I am becoming aware that this is the last end of term i will have at the Academy because come September I will be tidying up all the loose ends in preparation for leaving for France in November. 

Now, my original idea in creating this new blog was to document my journey to France and how things go once I get there. I have not said a great deal about it as not much has happened, but I shall fill in what has so far. 

I've been dutifully studying French as and when I have the opportunity, and as such am feeling a lot more confident about making the most of my language school once I'm there. I've booked a short holiday in Aix to check it out, make sure I like the place and visit the language school. I'll be leaving with N in a week's time for Paris, where we'll be staying for 1 night with friends and then heading down to Aix to camp for 3 nights. I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to this and N and in the many years we've known each other have never been on a holiday of just the two of us. We've also often talked about Paris and this is the first time we'll be going together, not that either of us are strangers to the city. 

Accommodation wise, I was not going to book this through the language school as it's a little more expensive than I'd want, but I've decided that if it's possible I'll stay with a host family for the first couple of weeks and then find a flat from there. I suppose if gives me the opportunity to actually meet the people I'll live with before I plunge straight ahead. All that I have left to do is have a chat with my gran about how much money she's willing to give me pos. lend me. That's going to be a difficult conversation to have. Not because she doesn't want to give me any money, but because she wants to give me too much and I don't know if I can accept it.