I’m going to be honest here; I don’t really have much to say. I love Toulouse and am so glad to be studying abroad here! And it’s not that things are boring, there’s just nothing really big for me to talk about—unless you want to hear about the time I tried to befriend a stray cat and then it bit me… yeah, I didn’t think you wanted to hear about that either.

Instead, I’ve decided to write about my Toulouse Bucket List; at the end of the year, I’ll check off the ones I’ve accomplished! If you’ve got any suggestions, please feel free to email me at [email protected]

-Eat about a bazillion crepes
-Buy a leather jacket
-Work that leather jacket
-Travel to at least 3 different countries
-Translate for someone who only speaks English or only speaks French
-Become a regular at a French café
-Eat 12 different types of cheese
-Take an overnight train somewhere
-Ride on the back of a Vespa
-Drive a Vespa myself
-Drink about a bazillion bottles of wine
-Kiss a French guy
-Eat some snails
-Eat buckets of macaroons
-Give a French person directions in flawless French
-Go to a nude or semi-nude beach
-Go to Cannes
-Befriend my host brother
-Eat foie gras and not feel the need to barf
-Get my haircut by a French hairdresser
-Go to an open air market
-Spend the night in a refuge on a mountain
-Eat a chocolatine (chocolate croissant) at 6 in the morning after staying out all night
-Go to a rugby match
-Join a student club
-Visit the opera
-Go to a discotheque
-Memorize the bus schedule
-Understand more than 60 percent of what my French professor says
-Find a bottle of wine for less than 2 euro
-Drink that bottle of wine
-Make a jar of Nutella last more than 24 hours
-Read a French book in a French park
-Go to a protest
-Buy a fresh baguette and eat it on the way home
-Buy some high-heeled sneakers
-Be mistaken for French
-Tell someone to paint me like one of their French girls