Leaving Home

Bonjour mes amis! Reporting to you from the Pearson Int'l Airport (notice I didn't include Toronto because we all know it's really in Mississauga). It took me forever to figure out how to connect to the WiFi in the airport, but I finally figured it out. It configures best with Mozilla. But the best part of it is that it's free! My point of this post is that I want to do this every day for the duration of the trip to keep you all updated with my whereabouts and what's-its on this trip. I just made that word up. Whatever.

I'm sitting in the corner of a food area just outside the gate where I'll be boarding flight AC880 to Paris Charles De Gaulle. I can hear my mom, Tara, Yasemine and my aunt playing Bananagrams a few tables away. There's so much excitement in the airport, always brings my mood up when I travel. I hear a slew of languages as families are waiting with their loved ones until boarding time arrives. A man just sat down near me. He's by himself. Probably travelling for business. I met a girl in line for baggage drop-off who's heading to Dublin to do a 6 day horse tour of the hills in the area, I guess. She was probably 4 years older than I am and said it's her first time traveling alone. Weird. My first time traveling alone I was headed to Paris, like I am now, at 15.

I'm nervous to fly. I brought earplugs, sleeping pills, gum, a book and my iPod (well, Katie's old iPod woops) for the flight, though I'll probably just fall asleep on my own. SockMonkey came along for the trip and, with inspiration rooting from Stinky Goes to San Francisco, I'll be posting pictures of his adventures. We just took one: SockMonkey and his Canadian Passport.

The reason I even have my computer plugged in is that I'm trying to charge my phone a bit since I'll be travelling until late afternoon tomorrow, France time.

I'll write again when I figure out the WiFi connection at my Residence in Nancy.

I don't know many french sayings (which is actually kind of bad) but um, comme on dit en France, c'est la vie?!

For those of you who know me well, I'll use my usual sign-off for these posts.. well this one at least.

xoxo gossip diva~