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Hello everyone! I am finally in Cannes and it's more beautiful than I ever expected. So I will just update you on the journey so far.

My flight: Flying alone to Europe by yourself is one of the scariest things I've done. I checked into MSP airport around 1:30pm. Saying goodbye to my parents was very hard and the sight if my mom bawling didn't make it any easier. I only had 30 mins until I boarded. The 8 hour plane ride to Paris was decent because I had movies and stuff but sleeping was not happening for me and one of the most frustrating things. In Paris, I felt so lost and I went to wait for my luggage but little did I know they had sent it straight to Nice. So with my extra hour and a half I shopped around in the Paris airport. An hour later, I was at baggage claim in Nice waiting for my luggage. Funny story is that it wasn't there ( the aiport did send it to the college after they found it). So luggage-less, I got on a bus the college sent and shared stories with my roommates, Bridget and Shannon.

Thursday afternoon: We arrived at the college and were brought to our rooms. Decent size, amazing view. Chuck, our program director, took the those who arrived into town. We are literally a 10 min walk from great restaurants, bars, shops, etc and a less than 5 min walk to the sea. I am in slushie heaven here because they are slushie shops where there are literally 10 different flavors of slushies. When we got back to the college, jet-lag hit me HARD and I knocked out until dark. (Picture is the view from our room)

Thursday evening: In the evening, half of our group had arrived and we all met in the courtyard. After talking about everyone's flights and pre-travel stories we decided LGW. So we got ready and went into town looking for a liqour store but everything was closed besides this broke down conveience store with less than what my mom has in our kitchen. It had to be a cover store. We bought wine and beers and headed to the beach and hung out. After we walked to an Irish pub and had more. Kayla and I managed to speak some french to some locals sitting next to us. There's no shame in trying to speak a foreign language when you're intoxicated. After, Bridge, Shan, Eric, and I went to another bar (no one knows the name) and enjoyed the d.j and drinks. After we were starving and I managed to ask a rando where the Mcdonald's was and then we somehow found it. I tried ordering chicken nuggets buts instead they gave me three McChickens. I wanted to fix my order when the security guard told us we were being to loud so we went outside and sat with some London guys and decided to go for a swim. It's weird but we couldn't stop talking in British accents around them and it came so naturally. Finally, we ended the night back at the college and I slept like a baby.

Sorry this is a long post, but there's so much to do and so many great stories I don't want to forget them all! Pictures will be up later but they probably won't do it any justice. I'll be back with more stories! Until then. xoxo.