It's been a while

Sorry it's been so long since I've been able to update this! School has gotten in the way of a lot of things lately! :p

This past weekend was the IES trip to Normandy and it was absolutely amazing! We got to go to two really great museums. The peace memorial at Caen (which was a history of leading up to WW2 during the war and after the was and also some of the cold war) and also the Musee du Debarquement (D-Day Museum) at Arromanches (which was a really awesome museum about the artificial harbor they built after D-Day). It was amazing and I had no idea that they had built a harbor there! And then we also went to Omaha beach and the cemetery. The cemetery was amazing and also extremely overwhelming. It was just overwhelming seeing all the graves and then to think that they all died within 3 days most just on the first, and that there were more that got sent back to their families. It's absolutely amazing to think that they sacrificed their lives like that. 

We were standing on Omaha beach and talking about everything and trying to take it all in when one of my friends said "I've never been more proud of my country than I am right now." And it's so true. I felt the exact same way. All I ever really think about is how messed up everything is right now. How I'm not happy with the government or what we're doing or what we're not doing, but it was refreshing to get to look back into a time when we did the right thing and we literally changed the world for the better. If D-Day hadn't worked, or that harbor hadn't held up, we would be living in a completely different world and I'm so proud to say that my heritage was a part of that change. I can't tell you how many times I wanted to start crying while we were there because of how proud I was of all the soldiers involved and how proud I was to be able to say that my grandfather was a part of it all. 

It was also really amazing to see how many countries were involved in the whole process. To think that there were so many countries involved in the process and that they all worked together so well. And what an outcome. 

This week was more school and I leave for Nice tomorrow morning!! I get to be on the first metro at 5:00 am!!! woo!! I'm so excited to have a break from Paris and get to see Karlene! It feels like London was forever ago, but I can't believe how fast the time has gone by!

And, I only have 2 months left!! Hope everyone's having a great day!