Salut!

Well, I figured out where I will end up next year, and I am extremely excited! I will be a foreign exchange student in France! I will be spending all of next year going to high school in France, and living with two or three families throughout the course of the year. I'll be leaving this summmer. I don't know where in France I will be going yet, I will find out in a few months.

I am so excited to begin my journey. I can't wait to learn another language, and to understand another culture. I anticpate the challenge, and the resulting benefits.

I want to know that awkward feeling when you return home, and still think in a different language. I want to the feeling of being rusty with my native language! It will be so odd!

Most of all, I would like to thank TIG. It's impacted my life in so many ways. I really don't know where I would be. I don't know if I would have considered opportunities like youth exchanges without TIG. The inspiration I have received is pricless. Thank you everyone, every person I have met through the website has impacted me in their own way. You have helped me realize the opportunities that will shape my life.

A year from now, I will probably be posting in French, crazy eh?

Take Care!

Peace