Almost a month left...

...and the anticipation of Strasbourg is killing me. It didn't help having to drive to Chicago twice to get visa information complete (with the latter trip seeing my first-ever speeding-ticket on the Chicago Skyway and an unpleasant near-accident with a semi-truck outside of Louisville), but it looks as though everything is coming together. I contacted my host family today, they seem like excellent people, and they even invited me to stay at their mountain home after the semester is over! Further, I'm getting to know a few of the other Strasbourg-students that are going this semester, and they all seem like a good group. Packing will not be fun, but because I feel it almost self-indulgent to even write this blog I'll spare the details.


And I'll be the first to admit: submitting this photo to the consulate for my visa may not have been the brightest idea ever, but they took a different one anyway.