"There seems to be no sign of intelligent life anywhere."

I went to translation class this morning, when there was still ice on the ground.  At home, school for sure would have been cancelled.  But I suffered and went to class, thinking "Well this can't be too bad, this class is half in English anyway!"  Wrong!  Day started off with a vocabulary quiz.  Good thing the professor said she would drop the lowest quiz grade haha, because I epically failed due to the fact that I thought "Controle" on the syllabus meant simply learning vocab that we would be using the next week in class, not memorizing for a quiz.  After the epic failure that was the vocabulary quiz, we proceeded to translate French into English…and I learned I don't really speak English either.  I felt like an idiot when the professor would come look at my translation and say something like "Well, that's good, but I'm pretty sure saying it like this is better."  I would get really excited when I got something right.  In English.  The language I've been attempting to speak for going on 20 years now.  Anyone want a humility check?  Take a translation course.  I felt (and still feel haha) soooo stupid.

Classes continued throughout the day, and at 5:00 I was so ready to leave, but of course since this is France, class was running late as usual.  Being the stellar student that I am, I started to day dream and look out the window.  And that's when I saw them.  Huge chunks of snow falling from the sky!  It was pouring snow!  Which kind of sucked, because due to the epic failure vocabulary quiz another American and I had to go into town and buy the textbook.  I must digress a little to mention the "expensive" textbook: 13,90€!  That's under $20 for a textbook!  I wish American textbooks were that cheap!  Anyway, back to the more exciting issue: the snow.  It was coming down hard - in about 2 hours we had about two centimeters on the ground (that’s almost an inch).  Being the Southern Texan that I am, I was super excited despite the fact that I couldn't feel my feet, or my hands, or my face, or really any part of my body since I don't have any snow clothing at all except a pair of (non-waterproof) gloves, scarf, and hat haha.  But I made my first snowball and threw it across campus!  =)  Tomorrow I really want to make a snowman.  I know I'll look like an idiot, because no one else here is excited at all about the snow.  Probably because they've seen it more than twice in their lives haha.  But I haven't.  Time to look like that stupid American girl again!!! =)