"Where is my super suit?"

I could really use a super suit right about now.  All of my clothes are wet, thanks to the wonderful dryers here at Camille Guérin, and the high for today is 3 degrees.  In Fahrenheit, that's around 35.  For the high.  As in maximum temperature.  In Houston, if it gets this cold as a low the entire city shuts down.  And it gets better: we're supposed to get heavy snow on Tuesday.  Severe weather alert.  And guess who doesn't have neither a heavy jacket nor snow shoes?  The closest things to snow shoes that I own/have here with me, my wonderful leather semi-waterproof shoes, just started to crack along the sides, which means they are no match for heavy snow.  I'm regretting not packing my super suit right now.  And regretting not picking someplace like the Caribbean to study abroad =)

But I am feeling kind of like a superhero right now.  I use my spidey senses to find the little babies baked in the king cakes!  The first king cake we ate, I bit into the little character.  Since we won a free king cake, naturally we went immediately back to the  bakery to buy it as soon as possible.  I was in charge of cutting this king cake…and I cut through the character.  Fortunately the characters are porcelain (yay Limoges!  Haha Limoges is known for porcelain) so I didn't actually break any of the characters.  I had a feeling as soon as I was handed the knife that I would cut through it…spidey senses to the rescue!

For all you Houstonians out there, here's a fun fact about French mosquitoes: they don't freeze.  Ever.  I got a mosquito bite and immediately thought "Hmm must have gotten this at home."  Until I saw the mosquito flying around in the elevator with me.  Snow, sleet, hail, freezing temperatures…nothing kills these mosquitoes!  At least they aren't the size of small birds haha =)

There's a rumor that all the Erasmus (Erasmus is European study abroad students - while technically I'm not Erasmus since I'm not European, I might as well be) students do absolutely nothing but party all semester.  I am learning that this rumor is true =)  We don't have to do anything but show up to class, which, when you only have classes 3 days a week, isn't too difficult to do.  We don't even really have to do  homework.  It's more of a suggestion (cue Pirates of the Caribbean quote about The Code being more like guidelines =)  We partied Thursday night, we're going to party Sunday night…I'm liking this whole study abroad adventure!  I could get used to this =)