Things I've learned in Paris

-ICELAND SUCKS
-French men are CREEPY! (well European men in general)
-Common sense is not so common.
-Art Nouveau is not always a good thing
-the French don't know what mexican food is
-I can bullshit essays in French just as well as in English
-Not all cities are like Boston
-When you go grocery shopping, bring your own bags, or you have to pay for them
-Milk here does not need to be refridgerated (gross.)
-Cottage Cheese doesn't exist
-neither does cheddar
-The French stuff their turkey with meat on thanksgiving-they don't know what stuffing is
-They don't cook their meat, and you can order raw hamburger meat as a meal
-People pee in the metro-I've seen it, at 2 pm on a week day
-One of the pillars in the Eiffel Tower doesn't have an elevator, it just has stairs (learned that the hard way)
-The French actually DO know English, they just refuse to speak it
-French men see nothing wrong with following you
-Mace is necessary to carry around on a daily basis
-Wearing shorts without tights is like foreplay to the French men
-If you smile on the metro or look like you don't want to slit your wrists, everyone automatically knows you're American
-the Boston accent makes speaking French very difficult
-Boston is truly the best city on the Planet!
-Don't eat an entire package of cookie dough just because you're depressed, you will end up throwing up
-ICELAND SUCKS AGAIN
-French universities are extremely easy and are set up like a high school
-Pub crawls always seem like a fantastic idea at the beginning...until you get halfway through and its only 11 pm.
-Maybe the Irish are doing something right by always being drunk-they're always so happy!
-The French could learn from the Irish...
-You can't buy any cheese or wine products that are not French...the French think theirs are the best in the world and therefore do not import
-Happy hour is the best invention ever.
-You can get a good wine for under 5 euros
-One of my roommates is a klepto...no big deal.
-Everything you need in life can be found in Durham, NH
-Crashing a Black Eyed Peas after party and hanging out with friends of the President of France's son will be the highlight of your 21 year existance
-Stereo Love will forever define your friendship with the threesome
-Tequila solves all problems
-Actual Opera's at the world famous French Opera House SUCK!
-There ARE slums in Paris, I know this because I live in them...true life
-Thank god for Cory Clements...I never would have survived living in my apartment without him
-French pastries will make you fat
-EuroDisney is a fabulous way to cure a depression caused by friggin Iceland...until creepy men follow you home
-Your sisters at Alpha Xi Delta are irreplaceable
-Going abroad isn't easy...but totally worth it.
-Special K diets actually do work
-Planning a trip to go snowboarding in the Alps will be your favorite trip of all of them
-Renting a car and sporadically driving to Milan for dinner because you missed your exit will be one of the best idea's you ever had abroad
-Buying a hairdryer in France is like trying to buy a TV...they make you pay for it on a different floor than you picked it out on and you have to pick it up from a different floor than you paid for it...its a procedure, believe me.
-Speaking in French for four months will ruin your English skills and it will take you 9 hours to write a 7 page paper in English because you spend half of the time thinking of simple words that you can't remember
-Cory Clements has the best idea's of what to cheers to while taking shots. Period.
-Europeans wear jeans and sweaters to the beach over their suits...freakin' weird.
-Sometimes what you're looking for is right in front of you
-Love isn't real.
-Save the best trip for last...Dublin you were amazing!
-Do make amazing friends...even if you can count them all on one hand, knowing life wouldn't be the same without them is enough
-make sure you take the time to spend entire days drinking while traveling whether its on a free walking tour of Prague ending in chugging absinthe at an absinthe bar by the castle, going around dublin to the guinness factory and jameson distillery and drinking guinness on the bus tour to the cliffs, or spending the day in venice drinking bottles of wine and sangria and ending it with a 173 euro dinner...you wont regret it. and as long as you can still remember the days, thats all that matters.
-Do realize that you'll probably only get the chance to live in Europe once in your life, so do splurge a little and worry about your bills when you get home...everything will work out.
-Don't forget what it is that made you want to go abroad and don't for one second think you made a mistake
-Everything truly happens for a reason and if something is good in your life, it'll still be there when you return.
-Don't underestimate the power of friends and family and realize that feeling homesick and alone makes you human
-Don't take yourself too seriously
-DO PICNIC IN THE PARK!
-Do wear 4 inch heels every chance you get...who cares if you're almost 6 feet tall, you're only "young and beautiful" once...haha
-Don't forget where you came from, you speak American, not English!!
-I can relate anything in life philosophically to Harry Potter haha
-I never want to grow up...
-don't cry on graduation day because you're four thousand miles away from half of your best friends while they're graduating...there's nothing you can do about it
-oh and...ICELAND SUCKS.