The Students Are Coming! The Students Are Coming!

The first batch of students arrived this morning bright-eyed and enthusiastic despite being very sleep-deprived. Eleven boys and girls pulled up in three taxis from Nice airport around 11am this morning and they've been going strong all day.

I introduced them all to the "Pan & Cake" crepes across the street and then they went to explore Cannes a little on foot. They are trying their hardest to stay awake until 9pm so they can start adapting to the French sleep schedule. To stall their bedtime they've been blogging and tweeting like crazy on their laptops all afternoon --- I'll post some of their blog links on here in the coming days.

Still waiting around here in the lobby (have been for the past 5.5 hours) for a couple more students to get in today...but I'm hearing that lots of people are being rerouted due to the Icelandic volcano erupting again last night. There's buzz that Nice airport may even be closed tomorrow, so students' (and professors') - and celebs' - travel getting here is going to become more and more interesting over the next 24 hours. And by interesting I mean a giant pain in the ass. Glad over half the students made it here today.

Oh, P.S. - one of the students who got here this evening came over on British Airways and got a picture of all the ash coming out of the volcano as they passed Iceland. It's an amazing picture. She's considering sending it to CNN's iReporter in the name of UGA Cannes Film Fest- you know, to get our name out there... :) I'll send a link to it later if she posts it.