All The Kids In The Room Raise Your Hand!

So! I got an email this morning from Marjorie, our contact for the whole France thing, with the names and email addresses of everyone else going to my "academy", which apparently consists of a huge piece of land wherein I have no idea where I am going. There are about 35 of us, and I've been chatting through gmail with about 12 of them so far; none of them, so far, are actually in Lille like me, so the "academy" is a pretty wide area.

It's really nice to finally be able to talk with other people who have been in the same boat as me for the past several months. A lot of people have gotten their arrêté de nominations already, so they know exactly which part of the academy they'll be in, but a few others have emailed back and told me that they are with me doing the whole "impatiently-waiting" thing. I've been checking the mail every day hoping to get that little packet in the mail that will give me some peace of mind as and allow me to be able to find a place to live.

So - a small update, but a big one!