Une année à l’étranger/365 days

Not everyone will understand your journey. That is fine.
It is not their journey to make sense of. It’s yours.


Year Abroad in Numbers:-

- 3…jobs worked
- 14…different nationalities of new friends
- 45…weeks spent in France over the course of this year
- 103…new subscribers
- 129335…views (as of 17h30 22rd September 2013)
- 4…appallingly low number of cities visited over the year (Paris, Amiens, Bordeaux, Quimper)
- 12…towns visited in and around Normandy
- 1…festival attended
- 4542…photographs taken and kept
- 3…school trips attended
- 32…bike rides suffered
- 3…different beds
- 1…phone lost and found (twice!)
- 8…months spent waiting for remboursements médicaux
- 10…months spent waiting for CAF
- 5…concerts attended
- 1…Bavarian Easter dinner
- 3…essays submitted
- 35…number of Children’s Clubs ran
- 4…new mobile phones
- 7…museums visited
- 1…'mariage pour tous' manifestations attended
- 6…flights taken
- 2…Bara’thons survived
- 2…Apparta’thons enjoyed
- 2…bottles of Hopfenschnapps drank
- 2…overnight ferries endured
- 58…hours spent on trains
- 0…the number things I would want to change if I had the chance to do it over again

L’Auberge Espanol sums it up quite well indeed: “Ça s’appelle Erasmus, c’est un bordel innommable”

And to quote Blip:-

The uniqueness of your day

How was your day? It's a simple question, but one that unravels such a plethora of varying answers...

Each day that's passed is now little more than a collection of unique moments - moments that came together to make your day the day it was.
And while we all remember the big moments - the defining events - the small moments are often neglected. Yet, it's these little moments that make each day unique - irreplaceable even.

This, my friends, is why I started Blip, and here is to another year to follow. A massive thank you to everyone who has followed, read, and taken the time out to comment…I really have appreciated it, and without the encouragement from the community I probably would have given up a while back! Blip has made me think about my surroundings more, and try and see beauty in the smallest or ugliest of things…and for that I am truly grateful.