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Packing up my life for the 5th and final time this year

never gets easier or more fun...

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Four hours and one exam separate me from Gina, my final days in Lyon, a lovely few days in Paris, and embarrassing amount of shopping, then home to my family and friends for Christmas.

[there is no appropriate .gif for what I am feeling right now]

[this is probably going to be a really hard exam]

[I can feel it]

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Things that are acceptable in a presentation in France: reading off of your paper for 12 minutes.

Hey, if my professors can do it for 3 hours every week, so can I.

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Finals in a foreign language: part II

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I have been here for four months and have seen one person outside with wet hair

Is it like:

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When I'm paranoid that my host family thinks I'm dumb because I can never say things how I want to

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You'll miss us. Good luck with your life.

Guillame, one of my French students.

Wow. Guess he really thought my life was depressing. Just kidding! The verb manquer, which means "to miss," totally sucks. I feel you bro.

P.S. Apologies Steph. I attempted to merge this with your post below and then realized I was horribly, technologically inept at Tumblr. Aide-moi?

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It was very interesting, thank you. I really liked your accent. And don’t forget, VIVA THE DEATH PENALTY [picture of hangman] !!! Stan p.s. If you see Justin Bieber kiss him for me ♥

Goodbye card from my French high school students (via erbav)

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Mer de Glace, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc

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one oral, one exposé, and three "on-the-table"

The French make final exams sound so dirty.

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Le chocolat plonge des êtres par ailleurs normaux dans d'étranges états extatiques.

"Chocolate makes otherwise normal people melt into strange states of ecstasy." 

John West (look, Professor Harvey, I even looked up the original quote and everything...sorry I stopped going to translation class) 

Found in a papillote, a traditional Christmas chocolate left in people's shoes by Père Noël which contains fortune cookie-like messages, but they're quotes, not fortunes.

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Jordan _________ et 11 autres personnes ont publié quelque chose à propos de Hanoucca.

My Facebook, en francais

Hanoucca, vraiment?

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No class on Thursdays or Fridays

I’m just here like…

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I'm just going to leave this right here.

Figure 1: French government

Figure 2: American government

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FRENCH RAP