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Graduation Countdown: 53 days
53 days.
Junior year, I had nowhere to go for my Spring Break. I didn't have any friends who were close enough to travel with. Most of my friends were the European students on a shoestring budget who could travel Europe whenever they wanted, rather than the Americans who were travelling all over the place while they had the opportunity and occasionally coming to class.
So I thought I was going to spend Spring Break alone and friendless, but my host family invited me along on their Spring Break trip and it ended up being an amazing experience. We spent several days at Francoise's brother's house and met all of the cousins, who were all great fun. We went to a party where Sophie and I were bored out of our minds and Denis was drunk out of his. We had a water fight, went for walks and bike rides, had lots and lots of tea, played board games, and generally amused ourselves.
Then for the rest of the break, we went to a former abbey near Dijon, which has been fixed up as a really nice hotel. We were celebrating Easter and BonPapa's 90th birthday. I met all the rest of the family that I hadn't already met, hid Easter eggs, went on a side-trip to Dijon, and had some great food. It was nice to be in such a large family with so many cousins of overlapping ages.
srah - Tuesday, 12 March 2002 - 9:02 AM
Tags: easter, graduation countdown, grenoble, holidays, host family, travel
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