First post--catching up

Well, I'm a little late in the game to start my blog right now, having been in France for five weeks. So, I was going to post all emails describing my experience, but I can't find them. I guess they've been deleted. Anyways, it seems easier to write a blog than to send out mass emails and I can also update this more easily and more often. It takes a lot of time to type in all those email addresses. Well, I guess I don't have much to say anymore about catching up. I'll write a summary later of what I've done so far.