It's all coming together.

This semester has gone by extremely quickly.  My mind is rather blown to realize that final exams start in about two weeks.  It still kind of feels like, in classes, we should be in that beginning state where professors are still just handing out syllabi and we haven't really started learning anything.  Yet we're wrapping stuff up now.

Since the French play's format was so different from the past three semesters in which I participated, that seemed to go by more quickly, as well.  Our two performances were on Wednesday and Thursday of this past week, and we had our cast party at the Nichols' house on Thursday night after the performance.  (This newfound tradition was started by a brilliant idea from yours truly.)  The first performance was great.  Everything was perfect, and we got tons of compliments afterward.  One of my French professors (for whom I worked as a peer tutor last semester, also) complimented me on my pronunciation and said he was very impressed.  EEEEE!!  Any compliment I get on my French sends me over the moon.  The second night of the play didn't go so well.  The sound was far too quiet so we could barely hear it, we dropped lines, Lauren's and my fight scene was off, the music didn't start right for our group song . . . I dunno.  But the audience still seemed to like it.  The cast party made up for everything, though.  We all had a blast.  I feel so fortunate that I've been able to get to know everyone in the troupe and that we've all become so close.  It just stinks knowing that we won't all be able to be together next time.

Back: Rachel, Marcelline, Dr. Lobert (our director), Mary, Ashlee
Middle: Anna, Jen, Sobira (our lovely subtitles lady), Maria, Lauren
Front: Dallin

In other news, study abroad in Québec is officially official.  Remember that huge debacle I mentioned with Truman's Study Abroad office?  Well, one of the women there has been in contact with the peeps at l'Université Laval à Québec, and we received a letter from both the university and Truman's Study Abroad office saying that we are officially accepted.  So our credits will transfer, and everything is hunky dory.  YAY!  I am so beyond excited.  In mid-June I'll fly up to Michigan to spend two weeks with my father's side of the family, and almost immediately after I return, we'll start the drive up to Québec.  WOO!  Next week is some mandatory orientation for those studying abroad this summer or next year.  Pretty snazzy.

Also in other news, I have had major difficulties in scheduling for next semester's classes.  Part of it is my own fault, and now the rest of it is pretty much just bad luck.  I'm hoping certain things will work out, but it's not, you know, certain.  Sigh.