Jour d'action des graces

Apparently the title of this particular post is the direct translation of Thanksgiving day to French, but I have only heard Parisians saying 'thanksgeeving', with a french accent (read: more nasal with emphasis on the ing but no pronunciation of the final g)

I did get some grub time here in Paris with two amazing dinners thanks to the center for the Americas at SciPo and fellow American students (along with a few int'l first timers). Thank you to all of you for feeding me!



Further in spirit of Turkey day, I just wanted to give thanks for all the wonderful people in my life and all the fabulous opportunities I have been given in this past year. Love and remerciement for my amazing family, old and new friends, my carte de sejour (finally!), café cremes, skype, umbrellas, ADX sisters (home and abroad), pumpkin pie, wifi access at the local library, scarves, seeing the Eiffel Tower at night when taking metro line 6 from Etoile to the apt, the lovely P/NP option, and for a lifetime of joys and tears and growing during my first 6 months. Yup, as of November 30th I will have offically been out of the United States for half a year, and even though I know everyone says this, I really do feel like I just got here. Hard to believe I have to leave in 6 months...

Again, love and thanks to you all for sending love and prayers my way : )

xxoo