Thanks so much for everyone's well wishes and information! I really don't want to be the ugly American, so I'm trying to get a good sense of what to expect now! I could not be more excited about it all. Its just huge.
And I just found out that it's not three months, it's five months to a year. So ya know, road trip folks, lol.
Soror AKA_Monet- that's what I'd heard from a few people in the past, but I wasn't sure. I plan on really trying to speak french when I'm there, so I've already started to brush up with tutorials online- all those things that I really didn't care about like compound verb tenses and whatnot look WAY more interesting now!
AOII_LB93, check your pms (well, in an hour or so). That was all really helpful! Thanks!
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It may be said with rough accuracy that there are three stages in the life of a strong people. First, it is a small power, and fights small powers. Then it is a great power, and fights great powers. Then it is a great power, and fights small powers, but pretends that they are great powers, in order to rekindle the ashes of its ancient emotion and vanity.-- G.K. Chesterton
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