December

20 American Things I'm Excited For

I love Paris, but since I'm going home for a month starting December 21st, I've been daydreaming about a number of American things during this end-of-the-semester-from-hell. As a sequel to my "Things I Will Miss About America" post, here are a few things that I'm looking forward to during my month home over the holidays.

1. The ability to buy shoes in my size
2. Taking elevators all day, every day
3. Driving all day, every day (Unless it's snowing)
4. Being able to use my credit card for small purchases
5. Huge grocery stores with everything you'd ever want in them
6. Snow (The excitement will be brief)
7. Chicken wings
8. Root beer
9. Cold beer
10. A major haircut
11. Free laundry- in the house! No carrying my laundry up and down my seven flights of stairs to Raspail          and paying 15 euros a load!
12. Not cooking
13. Curly fries
14. Central heating
15. The U.S. dollar
16. Space. I'm pretty sure my parents' house is bigger than my chambre de bonne!
17. Outdoor activities, like skiing, ice skating and sledding
18. Cookies
19. Playing the piano
20. One-stop shopping (Watch out, Target!)

November

Hands down, November was the quickest month to go by so far. I can't believe it's December. Here's my monthly video and another video update of life in Paris.