hey everyone!
i am having such an amazing time here. it is soooo beautiful and the weather is great. the old part of nice is so pretty and lively. i walked down la plage- the beach- last night with my roomate katia and a guy named Luca who was a translator for us. Katia is from Italy and speaks some english. between the 2 of us we speak english, french & italian... good times. Luca has been coming here for a number of years, but he only started dancing about 10 years ago. Get this: he is a mechanical engineer... who happens to dance. He was helping me & Katia with our conversations. I also met this cool girl Emily - who looks like Ryan's cousin Niina- from Manchester. She is not in my program, but she is living in Nice for the summer. She works at the pub I happened to stop in on my first day. we hit it off instantly. I also met her 2 roomates from Ireland. We all went out for dinner the other day and I had so much fun!
Anyways classes are going great, I am learning soooo much! I'll update more later... I am running out of time.

Ciao & au revoir

I arrived at the jfk airport at 3pm Thursday. My flight was suppose to depart at 7:30pm. But of course it was delayed....until 9:40. Then once the plane was boarded we had to wait until closer to 10:30 to take off because there were so many planes taking off at the same time.
However, because of this delay I sat in the Sam Adams brew House and met this really cool girl, Kristen from Long Island, who happened to be on my flight. We were chatting with some other travellers at the bar and we managed to get FREE Pints of beer.... can't complain really :) Hopefully Kristen will keep in touch and let me know how her tour of Ireland went.
Back to my long day... it is now 3:55pm Ireland time (10:55am back home) and I am at the Dublin airport. Since my flight was delayed so long... I missed my flight to Paris. And since they don't offer travel insurance for ppl who don't live in europe, I had to fork out 75 Euros to get another flight- major bummer!!!!!! Not much to do here, but I did have a pint of Kilkenny for you Mary!
Anyways, that's my newest update, I'll keep you posted.

Oh, I forgot to mention I stopped by the M&M store in NYC and picked up so M&M Almonds (I thought of you Sam). I can't believe how much M&M stuff people actually buy.

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Ciao

Best laid plans... or so I thought. When I left on Tuesday, I was originally suppose to land in Newark at 6:29pm. However my flight was delayed from Thunder Bay... and then from Toronto. I finally landed at 8pm. No worries right, this is typical with travelling. So I get my ticket for the train Timmy told me to take. I asked one of the attendant's what track I should be on just to be sure. When I got there I missed the train by 2 minutes. No biggie, I could take the next one in 20 minutes- right? So in 20 minutes a train comes on another track and everyone gets up and leaves. I think this is rather weird, especially since no trains have come on the track the lady told me my train would be on. So after I watch that train pull away, I asked another attendant which train to take. He so kindly informed me that I should have been on that one. So I had to catch the next one... in another 20 minutes :) By the time transit was all done I arrived at Timmy's apartment at 11pm.  But I am here now. It's not how I planned, but that's part of the adventure.