Orthodox/observant Jews who did study abroad during college, how did you balance everything?

I’m thinking of spending a semester abroad in France, and although I know there’s chabads, kosher restaurants, etc, Im still a bit skeptical on how it would go and if it would be easy to still keep everything with everything going on during the sem abroad

For any Observant Jews who did study abroad, was it easy? did you easily have a place to go each shabbat? holidays?