First day!

Bonjour!

Departing from Nichols at 12:30 pm to catch a 4:45 flight out of Toronto, we arrived in Paris around 6:00 am Le Havre time. The seven hour flight passed by rather quickly for some of us with the help of movie selections such as Juno and Transformers, along with "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire". Those sensible enough to attempt to sleep found it difficult with Will and Larkin's unsuccessful attempts at obtaining millionaire status, but with eye masks and pillows most people managed to sleep for maybe two hours with the exception of Dr Rockwell who slept soundly the entire flight.

After unloading from the plane, everyone found their luggage pieces (singular for the boys and of course plural for the girls, except for Cokie as we were all dumbfounded that she could fit three weeks of clothing into a not-so-big rollaway) quite easily. Being that it was only midnight in Buffalo, we all fell asleep on the two and a half hour bus to Le Havre where we woke up anxious for our big reunion. The swarm of French students outside the bus was massive and we all anxiously looked to find familiar faces. Off the bus and reacquainted, some of us continued straight off to class with their correspondent while others went directly home. Some stayed until returning to the houses for lunch, and then rested and unpacked like me, or other girls such as Caroline and Rene went straight back to school after eating. Exemplified in these many different situations explains perfectly how different St Joseph school is from Nichols: probably three times as many students, all bustling around with different schedules and running between classes to Greek or french literature or geometry, the whole idea is sort of overwhelming. 

Mais quand vous etes en France, faisez comme le francais!