All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go.

So the last few days have been quite non-eventful, but still enjoyable. My last days in France were spent much the same way as my first; lazily exploring the city and taking it all in…except this time around it was taking it all in for one last time.

Liana and scallops

Monday we had one last lunch at our favorite pasta takeout, with Leah, and then walked her to her train. Liana and I spent much of the day not doing all that much but still enjoying our time in Angers without having a set schedule of classes to attend. Monday night we went to the movies and saw Tree of Life, with Brad Pitt and Sean Penn. I can’t really give an opinion on the movie, because it was very strange, and sort of leaves you questioning a lot of details of the movie. It was really well filmed though, and overall I enjoyed it. 

Host Family

Tuesday Liana and I wandered the city for a bit, sampled some delicious macarons, I finished up the souvenirs I needed to buy, and ended up finding a Disney comic book from 1982 completely in French…for only 5 euros. WIN! I bought it, and It will be my reading material for tomorrow. =) We spent much of our afternoon in Lianas room watching season 3 of True Blood…That evening, we had our last night with our host parents(they have a dinner party to go to tonight) so we had dinner. Liana and I bought Chantal and Dominique a bottle of cointreau as a parting gift, and when we presented it to them over aperitifs, they quickly cracked it open. We enjoyed a nice cocktail of champage, cointreau, and orange juice with a few appetizers…one of which were scallops…seafood…sigh. I ate it with a fake smile on my face. Oh well. We followed this with a glass of (fake) champagne from Saumur (the only real champagne is actually from the city Champagne..go figure).  Chantal and Dominique also gave Liana and I a gift; we each got a saucer/mug set from Paris, that has hand printed paris/Eiffel tower stuff on them, and they are absolutely beautiful…and fragile.

Mon cadeau

Dinner was a veggie mixture (delish) and pork (also good). Dom kept teasing Chantal about feeding us veggies with the e-coli breakout all over Europe. She simply rolled her eyes and brought out the cheese and baguette course. (Dinner was served with Red Wine) The cheese this time wasn’t strong at all, and I actually enjoyed it …win?! Haha we then had an apple tarte tatin, which was really really good, and made me realize I may be missing Taco Bell like nobody’s business, but in a short while I’ll be missing French pastries. We followed dinner with a coffee (more like espresso) and Dominique decided that Liana and I must take a shot of cointreau with him as a digestif….sure France…did u notice all the alcohol consumed for one meal? Yup, can’t say my life will be like that when I return to America, especially being that I turn 20 on Tuesday, so I have over a year before I will be able to do that again. We ended our night by going to Soft one last time, and then finishing up the season of true blood.

Today we wandered into town and just took pictures of anything and everything we saw fit to. We took in all the sights of this beautiful city one more time and soon were joined by Megan and her friend Collin. The 4 of us headed across the river and lay in the grass enjoying the view of the cathedral and chateau one last time. Our time together ended with a quick stop for some macarons to take home (I hope they don’t break on the plane!)and one last pastry (pain au chocolat aux amandes…yum) Our last night will be spent making dinner and maybe watching one last movie on our laptops.

Everything of mine is packed, my room is clean, and I have left a box of things for Shannon to have in the fall when she will be living in my old room.

Last night at Soft

Highlights of my last few days:

-seeing everything one last time (bittersweet)

-Dominique teasing Chantal every chance he gets (ex: “no, it wasn’t Katie you’re thinking of, it was a different girl, you’re just getting old” “there’s usually more rum in this, but Chantal drank it all”)

-macarons…many many macarons

-getting a buzz with my host parents

-finding Arizona ice tea(green tea…but still) and literally shrieking in the store over it.

-Delta alerting me I have less than 24 hours before I leave, and that I can check in for my flight…

This will be my last post from Angers, I hope you have enjoyed reading about my adventures half as much as I have enjoyed living them.

France me manquera.

Au revoir, mon amour.