Made it!

I made it to France!  The flight was really long, but it was fun.  I got a window seat on my first flight to New York, and it was fun guessing what part of the country I was over.  I was amazed that Nebraska and Iowa seem to be one big graph of perfectly straight lines!
I got to New York yesterday afternoon and had a four hour layover.  I met up with some others from the group there and we played some card games while we waited.
On the flight to Nice I was in the middle isle, but it was ok, because it was dark outside, and even if I could see out the window I'd just have seen ocean. I passed the time by watching the last Hobbit movie, which I had never seem before.  Afterwards I tried to get some sleep.  Thanks to the neck pillow my friends convinced me to buy I was pretty comfortable, but still I'd wake up about every 15 minutes.  It was the strangest feeling that although the sun had just set in New York that it would be up again in about 4 hours because of the change in time zone.  In all I got about 2 hours of sleep.
We got to France, and I met the Frayard family.  We are living with them.  They are super nice and want to do so much for us.  They consist of a Husband, a wife and a teenage daughter.  Josy, the mother, told us that we were there to learn French not to do housework, so she offered to do all the laundry and dishes.
My roommate's name is Devin.  He's really nice, but kind of quiet.  He's from UVU too.  We sent the afternoon trying to stay awake by walking along the promenade along the beach.  It was neat to see everything, but we were too tired to really enjoy it It was a little boring though because we didn't really have a destination in mind.
The Frayard's made us dinner, and now we're turning in for the night.  It's 8 o'clock here, but we're just happy it's late enough we can sleep without worrying about jet lag.
I was really nervous about my ability to speak French when I got here.  I knew a lot, but I still don't think I've refreshed all I knew from before my mission.  I'm doing really well communicating though.  I really feel having served a mission and speaking Spanish has been helping my French in ways I couldn't have done before my mission.  Also I feel my mission has made it a lot easier living with strangers, and helping them feel comfortable with me.  The Frayards don't speak English, which I'm glad for, it really makes me stretch, and I feel my French has already gotten better.  I just really have to concentrate to not say anything in Spanish.
Well that's all of tonight.
PS Neck pillows are great for reading while laying down.