11 days to go

So this is the inevitable Year Abroad blog that I imagine at least 70% of those travelling this year will also set up! But why not actually create a timeline of what goes on in this scary year? The days of me chronicling my life into various LiveJournal accounts are dead and gone (thank goodness. No one wants to read back those posts) but hopefully this will be a more interesting read.
At 10am on the 28th September I will be boarding a ferry in Newhaven that will take me to Dieppe, and from there it's a train to Rouen for me. From there my prof référent is meant to be picking me up at the station and taking me to her house to settle in, and I start work I assume on the 2nd October at Lycée Galilée in Franqueville-St-Pierre.
MY 5 MAIN CONCERNS 
1. My prof référent has told me recently on the phone that she is getting married this weekend coming and is actually moving into her new house with husband and three children on the 28th September. Yes, the day I move to France. So what if she doesn't turn up the midst of all the chaos of moving to a new house? What if I am stranded alone at Rouen train station? Hopefully I can find a nice French old lady to bake me bread and take me in.
2. What if I find nowhere decent to live and have to take advantage of my prof référent's hospitality for the whole seven months? At least I can give her free babysitting in return I guess. I don't even know how to say that in French. I know in Spanish it's 'hacer el canguro' but I have no idea what it is in French, which leads me on to my next point:
3. How on earth am I going to survive in a country known for hating the English language with what I swear is the most basic level of French anyone doing a degree in it has ever had? I mean honestly, I freeze up at the most basic conversational French. I know this year is obviously meant to change and improve all that, but surely I've got to be able to actually talk to people first? Can I do that?
4. I am a vegetarian and have been for the last 10 years this September. Apparently this does not compute in France. I don't really know how on earth I'm going to survive really...although I have found a good looking cookbook that might help: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-French-Market-Cookbook-Vegetarian/dp/0307984826/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=3G9MRFNKMADO0&coliid=I2JKALP4NX9643
Which leads me on to my next and final point:
5. How on earth am I going to live without all of my beautiful COOKBOOKS? And my NOVELS? This is a big deal for me. I am going to have a limited amount of space, especially for the first few weeks. How am I going to choose between all of my precious cookbooks and regular books and choose a special few to take with me in my limited suitcase space?

Yeah so that one sounds stupid but if you knew me you'd understand how much of a massive book geek I really am. So with eleven days to go, these are just a few of the things on my mind. I'm currently rewarding myself with watching one episode of Breaking Bad for every time I do something scary that needs to be done. I just booked my ferry so that definitely deserves another episode right?
I'm hoping to keep this blog as honest as possible to help out anyone else thinking of doing their year abroad in Rouen next year. That means being honest about any horrible issues as well as all the good parts I'm hoping will come from it! So let's just wait and see.