Hopefully there will be a few more catch-up posts to come (I still have to write about my beautiful trip to the French Riviera) but here I am sitting in the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, and I may as well write about my last day in France as it's happening.
Yesterday, after a check-out meeting with my landlady and a last visit to the program office to do some last minute errands, Ali, Molly and Emily brought me to the train station to see me off. It was a pretty surreal day, and very weird to be leaving my apartment for the last time. We said some hurried tearful goodbyes and tried not to make each other cry by crying. It's weird not to know when I'll see them again, but hopefully I will be able to take a trip to Minnesota someday soon or they will all take a road trip to Boston.
I had a pretty relaxing train ride to Paris, and then maneuvered my to big bags onto the 63 bus towards Louise's. I'm sure it was like something out of a movie, watching me try to stand up on the bus while I was trying to get off. The only downside to bags with four wheels is that they have a habit of rolling around on jerky busses.
We had a delicious dinner at a restaurant downstairs from the apartment with Louise, Charlie and Charlie's step-father, Norm. I tried Millefeuille for dessert, which means a thousand papers (really layers) and was full of creamy delicious-ness.
I forced myself to stay up as late as possible, watching British tv shows with Louise, and then went to sleep for my last night in France.
This morning was lazy, since I have an afternoon flight. Once I had everything together, I took a cab to the airport bus stop and set off for CDG. I have successfully made it through security and am now waiting at my gate for about 2 more hours till my flight takes off.
There are so many emotions going on in my head right now I'm not even sure how I'm feeling. So sad to leave this life and these amazing people behind, but I can't wait to see Josh waiting for me at Logan in a few short hours. Only one more minute on the free wifi, so I better post this. Thanks for reading!!!
xoxo Holly
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