Feeling at Home

      So finally I am starting to feel like the Château is my home. Rather than the usual traveling and running around like crazy, I have been doing absolutely nothing, which is awesome. I am settling into the normal everyday life of the people of Strasbourg. I know which bars and restaurants to go to and which stores I like. Additionally, I have finally figured out the transportation and what I am getting at the grocery store.
       With this being said, I am having a more difficult time imagining having to go back to the United States where life goes by at 100 miles per hour. I was so used to constantly working and still feeling like I was falling behind to a pace here where I still feel like I am learning but at a relaxed pace. For once, I feel like I can breathe and fulfill my tasks at a normal pace.
      I realize that the normal French person does not live at a château and go to school three days a week with nothing else to do but I have found myself being bored a lot of the time. Not the bad kind of bored where I want to be somewhere else but the kind of bored where I don't have deadlines hanging over my head. I am sure that December will feel much different but I am okay with that.
-Rachel Cooper