I’ve been delaying this post for about a full week now. The trip to Reims was wonderful – a day long extravaganza payed for by the program. It was so lovely and I have so much to say, that I kept putting off writing about it, due to the many many things I have to recount. Here goes…apologies, this post is going to be long.

We were slated to leave Paris at 8:45 on a Saturday morning. I sleep in a loft bed, which is incredibly difficult to rise from on the weekends. Something about being elevated makes me extremely reluctant to leave the warm covers and soft mattress. After my