"First day of school! First day of school!"

First day of school!!!  Remember how I said I have the best schedule ever?  Yeah, rethinking that right about now.  Classes from 9:30-5:00 are horrible, and by the end of the day, I'm lucky to still be awake.  Forget paying attention, it's not happening.  Not to worry, I'm dropping the last one =)  Such a long day…which is why I walked to the bakery after class and bought an éclair to reward myself for staying awake!!  So delicious!!  I'm definitely going to need to buy an entire new wardrobe, or start running a lot, because the bakery is literally only 5 minutes away from my bedroom.  It smells so delicious.  How is an unsuspecting American like me supposed to resist the tempting aromas from a French bakery every morning as she attempts to go to class in freezing weather???  Yep, time to start marathon training =)  New motto: I like to run, because I really really really like French bread and pastries.

So classes…yep, I want American classes again.  The schedule says the class starts at 9:30 in the morning, which apparently in French translates to 9:45.  Lunch is at 12:30, which again in French is 12:50 (and I'm starving by 12:00…story of my life).  And the 14:00 class translates to 14:30.  So by the time the class that says it ends at 17:00 finally gets started, it doesn't end until way later than expected.  Not cool.  I like schedules.  I like syllabi so that I know what to do for each class.  I like organization.  These things apparently don't translate into French.  Although, so far it appears homework doesn't really translate into French either, so French school does have its benefits =)

Since OU has mandated that I must take more classes in order to keep my scholarship, I thought taking an English-French translation class would be fun.  WRONG!  My advisor here emailed me back about that course…it's on Friday mornings.  Not happening.  So time to just pick random courses that look fun and hopefully are easy and have nice professors who will take pity on the poor American girl =)

We decided to finally try the school restaurant today.  It wasn't bad for a cafeteria.  It certainly wasn't the Caf, but it was still pretty good.  I'll probably only eat there every Tuesday, unless my other afternoons suddenly get filled with classes.

And finally, we planned our trip to Bordeaux!!! So excited!!! So much wine to taste and food to eat =)