ADDRESS

Elizabeth Keane

Schrottgasse No. 5  Apt. 17

1030 Vienna, Austria

Europe

In Versailles, minus the internet

2C Rue de Ceinture! This is the address of my new apartment but NOT mailing address. I live with three other women and our apartment is about a 30 minute walk from school and a 10 minute bus ride. For our first couple of days here we have:

met our landlords, the Wamaeres (Catholic family with four boys under the age of 6),

figured out the bus & metro system,

gone grocery shopping (jeez, I never realized how hard it is to buy food for oneself, needing to take into consideration what you want to eat when, eating healthy, not eating out, prep time. Thanks Mom for always cooking for me),

been late for class due to jetlag, but it was our first day of french and we just sat around and chatted so I didn’t miss much (Thank God),

got a cellphone (0628917814 and anyone can call it from the U.S. and it will be free for me (I think)

took a walking tour of Paris,

found my home parish for now (Jean d’Arc) and another English speaking one is Paris (St. Mark’s)

bought and drank some red and white wine with my roommates,

lost a roommate and found her again,

took a walking tour of Paris and saw the Pompidou center, maisons, and “modern” building,

butchered the french language, but managed to get my point across with obnoxious arm movements and noises.

missed everyone.

I’m currently stealing internet in the apartment of some other students, so unfortunately this will not be a long post, but I will try and make up for it with pictures. Oh! And my address is:

Elizabeth Keane

c/o University of Illinois

UIUC-SAPV

2, Av. de Paris

78000 Versailles

France, Europe

Please mail me things, I would love to hear about everything going on in your lives as well.

Ack, I don’t have time to put up pictures but I will when I get a chance. AKA When I have a secure internet connection. Love, Liz

Beginning – My Last Night in Champaign, IL

Hello everyone! I’ll be writing about my experience in Versailles, France and across Europe as often as I can in this blog. I will also be including pictures. I actually don’t even know if I spelled the name of this blog correctly, but you get the point. I don’t speak French (at all really) so this will be a most challenging experience. Thanks for reading and I’ll be posting my new address up here soon.

To contact me: use facebook, my email address: lizkeane2@gmail.com, Skype (liz.keane2), or Windows Live Messenger (lizkeane2@hotmail.com) I prefer Skype, because I can video conference with those with webcams etc. and it’s free for me to talk to you over the internet instead of finding a phone and calling you. So get an account with it!!

In other news, today I had my going away party at my house. A great group of people celebrated (or mourned?) my leaving for this trip and it was great to have them all there. After attending 9pm mass at St. John’s (particularly moving, my sister Rosemary was with me) I said farewell to more people very close to my heart. I never realized how hard it would be. For all of you reading this, thank you for your presence in my life, how you have made me grow and enriched my experiences in preschool, gradeschool, highschool, and now college. You’re in my prayers and I ask you to pray for me.

Pictures!