I am not a writer.

So for almost 3 months of study abroad... I have 5 posts. I have to face the facts. I am not a writer. I want to be a writer. I long to be a writer. However, you can't always get what you want. I guess I am stuck reading the wonderful works of other people.

So what have I done since we last talked, blogspot?

Well I went to Strasbourg, France! Strasbourg has a very famous Christmas market or Le Marché de Noël. Basically the entire city is covered in little booths, like a fair but way classier and more festive. It was a very, very beautiful city. It was full of canals and woodwork houses. I honestly wished that I was studying there instead of Dijon (don't get me wrong, Dijon is wonderful... but Strasbourg... WOW!).

So I adventured with a friend for the whole day and we got vin chaud (hot wine with yummy Christmasy spices in it) and pretzels because those are the specialities in Strasbourg. Interestingly, Strasbourg is in the region of France called Alsace, which has traded hands between France and Germany over the years. This means that although this is currently a French city, there is a LOT of German influence. They speak a dialect of German there, Alsatian, but they all know French as well.

It was a very lovely day that I will not go into because it honestly was long enough ago that I don't remember it all well enough to recount in detail right now because it is midnight and I am tired.

Currently, I am on Christmas break in Dijon. Christmas is in ONE DAY! However, I am just not feeling spirited. It's mostly because I don't get to be home with family for Christmas, but there are other reasons. Literally everyone I hang out with and know in Dijon travelled somewhere for the past week or so, leaving me in Dijon, lonely. I don't blame them; if I had had the money I would have gone somewhere as well. So basically I have not seen a single person I know since Saturday... and it is Friday night... I have been walking aimlessly around the city. I went to a museum today, got some lunch (chocolate pasta with alfredo sauce, yep), visited Dijon's tiny version of a Christmas market (about 7 booths) and now I am in my dorm on the internet. I have been on the internet a lot this week.

Oh well.

Some friends return to Dijon tomorrow, so hopefully my lonesomeness is over. My friend's parents are visiting and they are going to cook us Christmas dinner, so all is not lost! I just really wish I could be at home right now. :(

Anyways, I really, truly wish you all a merry Christmas and happy New Year!

Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année!

Allison