First Post!

This is my first time writing a blog. Well, I used to have a Myspace account, but I never really used that. Anyway, I didn't think I had much to write about before, but lately I've been on the computer a lot and there have been a lot of things happening in my life, so why not write them down where people can see them? I've always wanted to be a writer, and sometimes real life is the best inspiration for fiction. So, maybe if nothing else, this will be useful to me some day.

My name is Gabrielle, Gaby for short, and I am an eighteen year-old college student. I come from a small town and the graduating class at my high school consisted of 17 people. So, coming to a class of 700 is kind of a big jump, even though most of my friends seem to think this is pretty tiny. Well, it is a smaller school, but still. I'm taking eighteen credit hours, which is the best and worst choice of my life. I think that if I can get through this, I can get through just about anything else in college. However, I have a boatload of work. Even though I'm a freshman, half of my six classes are 300-level courses, so it's a lot of work. For this weekend, I have to write a five-page paper entirely in French, start reading the nine pages of Latin due Wednesday, and other various tasks.

Currently, I am on track to be a Classical Languages major. Don't ask what I'm going to do with that, because I really don't know yet. Maybe I'll teach Latin some day. My Latin teacher was amazing and funny and really good, so he had a really big influence on me. Hopefully, I can do the same for people some day. I love being a Classics major. The department here is small, but the size affords a certain intimacy that is not found elsewhere. I enjoy the other people in the department, and it's nice to have other people to hang out with who share my oddball interests. The other love of my life is French....it's my spoken second language, the language in which my blog is titled, and so much more. It's so beautiful and so romantic! J'aime beaucoup le francais!

So, there's a little bit about me, and I hope somebody's out there reading this. Today's just another quiet Saturday, procrastinating on homework and missing home just a little bit. I look forward to letting everyone know what's going on, and maybe I'll even post some fiction of my own creation later on!

A Bientot!
~Gabrielle Sidonie