Salut

Salut tous!

So this is a general update. Nothing super exciting, but just letting you know what’s happening in my Frenchish life.

This has nothing to do with my update. I just love this picture of Lison and I.

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Philippe and Muriel (host parents) have gone away to Berlin for the weekend so Muriel’s grandparents are here. The grandma has been cooking nonstop and I must say, it’s some of the most delicious food ever: the French really know how to cook.

I went to Hannah’s and had a baking day on Friday. I feel like I haven’t baked in so long. So we made brownies, carrot cake, and apple oatmeal muffins. Clearly a fattening and productive day. I brought the carrot cake home and we had it for dessert; it was really funny because everyone thought it was absolutely so wrong and bizzare to put carrot in a cake—yet they LOVED it. The other grandparents came over today and loved it as well. It actually became a dinner conversation: carrots in a cake.

I do not want to sound whiny or whatnot, but it has been extremely hard here lately. I miss having Christian people around me so much it hurts. Being surrounded by people who have a COMPLETELY different world-view is definitely a test on one’s faith. And to have been surrounded by them for over 2 months makes you question things. I find myself wondering about limits and where I stand with things...which I’ve never had before. I don’t want to be a social recluse yet I just find it easier sometimes to be one. The thing is, I know that when I come home things won’t really be that much different: I’ll be going to university and having to deal with that all over again. So God is just prepping me up. And he’s really taught me to trust him more. 

Tomorrow I decided to go to the Beaux-Art museum in Toulouse and invited Hannah, so that should be fun.

Prayers mean the world to me so thank you to whoever is giving them.

For pictures from my trip to Montpellier click here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151383670961277.1073741827.626916276&type=1&l=4edb2642ec

Love.