Tic-Toc-Tic-Toc

Time is passing ... the days are slipping by ... and my time in France is coming to an end. In excatly two weeks, I'll be in a plane, just beginning to head over the Atlantic, on my way back to America. It's all coming so quickly! And I'm far from being ready. At the same time, it's too early to start packing.

I've finished teaching at the university, graded the final exams and turned in my grades. I've got a handful of individual classes with adults this week and next. I'm running, enjoying the spring weather and getting ready for one more race -- a 10k -- on Sunday. More often than not, I'm cleaning and cooking. We're still having lots of dinner parties, and tomorrow we're having over the 30 or so people who have leant a hand to Philipp and Bernard during the chateau renovation process.

I'm beginning to reflect on the past three years I've spent in France. At the same time, I'm not quite close enough yet to my departure for it all to sink in. I'm sure it will hit me like a ton of bricks one of these days.

Till then, I'll just keep on going about my business ...