4 days to go

So the time is fast approaching where I will have to step onto that ferry and say goodbye to Angleterre for a while and I still feel thoroughly unprepared. Today I have been trying to go through all my paperwork but I'm still not 100% sure of everything. I'm pretty sure I'm going to be that one idiot that leaves their passport at home. Luckily the ferry is only about half an hour away from where I live but even so, would be a bit of a nightmare.
My ferry arrives in France at 3pm but annoyingly I'm going to have to wait an hour and a bit to get a train to Rouen. However, on the bright side I've realised I can book my train ticket online here at www.raileurope.com which saves me the hassle of having to use my pathetic French on the people that work at the train station. "S'il vous plait, je veux un billet et mon francais n'est pas bien, aidez-moi!!!" I don't think that would go down well.
I'm really really hoping that Karine, my responsable/prof référent will definitely be there to pick me up at Rouen station. I'm sure she will, it's just the obvious paranoia at the back of my mind!
All of my closest friends from my course are in France by now. Izzy's in Toulouse, Harriet's in Nantes and Siobhan's in Nancy, while Gwen's rocking it over on the other side of the Atlantic in Quebec. I'm trying to use in the back of mind the motto 'if they can do it, I can do it'. Apart from Gwen of course as she has the obvious advantage of actually being fluent in French. But if the other girls can do it then surely I can too right? Unless Warwick gave me a place at University for a big fat joke.
Another thing that has been revealed to me is a channel for streaming live British TV whilst I'm over there: www.filmon.com . Thank goodness there is a way I can continue to follow the Great British Bake Off.
One thing I am thankful for is the British Council Language Assistants Facebook group because it means that I have already made friends with quite a few other assistants so I won't be completely and utterly alone when I get there. The few I've spoken to are completely lovely girls so that makes me feel a lot better and a little less lonely. One thing I'm a bit annoyed about is that there is no information about the assistant that used to be at my school last year, so either there wasn't one, or they were American so didn't go through the British Council, or whoever it was was too lazy to fill in the Assistantship form/survey thing so the British Council themselves don't know who was at my school. VERY annoying as by now I could know how efficient the school are/how intense or lax the timetable is etc etc.
I also need to look into railcards etc and see what else I need to get doing. But guess what I'm doing instead? Watching Jersey Shore. Come on Olivia, get it together.
The next blog post may be a very scared and nervous one on Friday evening along the lines of "HELP ME I'M MOVING COUNTRY TOMORROW"
Ciao for now x