My Lacosté Blog!

Well, as many of you know I will be studying abroad in Lacosté, France for eight weeks with SCAD! I am very excited, but already getting homesick, can you believe it? Since I am not so great at keeping in touch with everyone, particularly with limited access to a computer and the internet, I'm going to make it my goal to update this at least once a week with pictures and everything that is going on! Hopefully I will update it more often than that, but clearly I have not demonstrated a wonderful ability to keep up with my other blogs...but you can for sure expect an update every week!
Just so you get an idea of Lacoste, here are some pictures. The first is just Lacosté from afar, yes it's on a hill and there will be much walking up steep cobble-stone roads! The next two are of the SCAD library...and that dome "room" used to be an oven. I want to sit in it!
Right now I'm protesting packing- I feel like I just UN-packed and finally am settling down, and I had been living out of my suitcase for around a week...I don't want to start doing that until I have to! I leave on Thursday, there's still time to pack, right? At least I'll be mostly set up for summer once I come home and can simply unpack, since I've already done the trudging of my dorm stuff all the way home and have stuffed everything into my room.

I have never really left the country, except on a Disney cruise once and to barely cross the border into Canada for two days...frankly that doesn't count, in my opinion. I am split pretty evenly between really, really excited and nervous/homesick/culture-sick. I don't know what to expect. Were I to go to Japan I would feel much more at home and comfortable there, and I speak the language enough to get by, which helps. I don't understand the French culture...and the language?..well that's a whole different story. Let's just say I'm not the best.

I should probably point out that I'm taking "Treasures of Provonce", which entails many day drips and field trips!!...and papers and presentations, and LOTS of reading, but it will be fun. I'm also taking "Travel Portfolio"- basically every day we'll be painting on-site all over Provonce! I'll be traveling a lot! I just hope I can pack everything I need, art supplies and essentials...and clothes, into one duffel bag!

Well, off to start my reading for Treasures of Provonce. Next update will be from FRANCE! And I will probably be absolutely exhausted, so I apologize in advance.

'Till next time!
~Liz