It's May Already!!

I cannot believe that it is May already! These past 9 months have just flown by. I can't believe I'm down to my last couple of weeks on exchange.

Classes are officially over, and I just handed in my very last essay last week. 2 exams is all that stands between me and finishing the school year in France! I have a geography exam this Friday which I think will be a little difficult. This is the only class where I've had to do everything as the french students do. I'm hoping he'll go easy on me marking wise, especially since there will be a giant ÉTUDIANTE ÉTRANGÈRE at the top of every page! Then my last exam is an oral exam on the 11th for 19th century french literature. I go there, he gives me a passage, and I have an hour to write an explication du texte, then I read it to him and that's the end!

My parents are officially in Europe! I got to spend the day with them on Friday where we walked through most of Lyon (there really isn't THAT much to see!), and I watched them fall asleep at 7pm (Jet lag!!). Now they're off wandering around Italy without me until Saturday while I'm here "studying" for exams. Just kidding! I'm working VERY hard I swear :)

My friends and I are all getting ready to go back to our normal lives. We're all taking our last trips (Dan and Virginia are going on an amazing one to Corsica for a week!), and slowly starting to pack up the last year of our lives. We're all a little sad to be leaving each other, but are already starting to talk about and plan reunions in the very near future :) Everyone of course wants to come to Canada (Giacomo is convinced we have no crime and have pillow fights instead of gunfights, and people give you money instead of stealing it.... hahahah).

I'm starting to pack my room away, packing the extra bag my parents bought for me so i MAY be able to bring everything back home (it's amazing what one person can accumulate over just a few months!). I have to pack most of my room this week, before my parents are back, and then Adrian is here and we are going on our 10 day trip to Morocco, Paris and Venice! Then I have hardly any time to pack, so I'm being good and doing it now :)

Most of us (my friends) will actually be meeting and saying goodbye in Paris which is kind of cool. Adrian and I are meeting Hannah and Pasan there, Omar will be there with his Scouts, Giacomo is coming to join us, and hopefully everyone else will be able to come as well!

It will be sad to say goodbye, but hopefully it's only going to be "Goodbye for now"

My last 3 1/2 weeks are going to absolutely fly by, and I hope to make the best of the rest of my time here! I'm enjoying the last things Lyon has to offer me, before I head back to real life in Canada.