Is anybody still reading this?

Thank you for all the encouraging comments, prayers, and support that have been shown to me during this month away. As my externship is winding down, I am feeling very grateful to have loving family and friends to come home to. The time has gone quickly and slowly at the same time. I have learned so many new things and it's definitely been a good experience, but I think I am ready to be done. I am sorry if I have IMed you 80 times a day while I have been gone-- my computer has basically been my connection to home. I realize many of my blogs have been long and rambling and if they haven't interested you at all, I'm sorry.

Paris is cold and gray today. The girls at work say that it is NEVER like this, and I think they are right. The other two times I've been in France, I was miserably hot, though I was way further south so maybe that accounts for some of it, too. But! I got to use my adorable green umbrella that's not very good at keeping itself open, but IT'S GREEN! Green, like the way I want to try to be when I come home. Living here has made me very seriously reevaluate some of my consumerism that seems so natural in America. Some of it is unavoidable, given the proximity to places I go to school, can get food, etc. etc. But I have learned that I can live very comfortably on less space, less clothing, less of everything. Except bread... I will probably cry over the bread for at least a week.

All right, I don't have too much to say so I'm going to call it a night.