Hotdish doesn't really work in France :(

Every morning when I wake up the first thing I do is look at the time so I know if I have time to make myself late by falling back asleep or not ( right mom? ). Well when I woke up and checked the time this morning, I discovered it wasn't morning at all - it was 3:45 in the afternoon! Or early evening? Granted, I didn't get home until 4:30 and asleep around 5:30 ... :). My friend Sophie had friends from high school who are abroad in Spain visiting this weekend and we ended up going out for dinner last night. I don't think we actually got our food until 11:30 or so so my time clock has been way off since then. And apparently - last night was daylight savings time in France? Cause when I turned on my computer this morning it was different than every other clock in the apartment. I had no idea. I really miss my channel 4 news keeping me up to date on everything!

I've been really stressed this past week trying to get myself to study for midterms and pick projects for my Sorbonne class ( which is a mess of its own ). Unfortunately even though I don't have videogames or satellite television or a car or Nala to distract me .... I have found plenty of things to waste time doing. :) At least I had lots of time these past few days to crackdown and get stuff done.

Stuff like finding Baking Soda. Which was a struggle - apparently they don't use it over here. My first attempt at Chocolate Dainties was terrible whithout it ( and combined with no way to convert measurments other than guessitmating - mind you the most involved in making of chocolate dainties I ever get is eating the dough ... ). I had to go to the Bon Marche which is this really upscale department store and grocery store that has a small section of imported goods. All the important American things like popcorn, marshmallows, peanut butter, salsa, and taco kits. Except half of the stuff is made in Canada soooo.

I'm really looking forward to my trip this weekend though. It should be a blast and the girls I'm going with are really cool. We leave Wednesday night and come back really early Sunday morning. It should be interesting because we leave Sunday at 7 a.m. which means we need to be leave for the airport at 4:30 so we are going to cancel our hostel that night and just stay out late and maybe go to the airport if we get tired. Shall be intersting! We probably should have just paid the extra money to take the late flight back but oh well - Ryan Air is sketchy anyway.

Midterms start tomorrow and I just had a 3 hour dinner ( I will notttt miss these when I leave France! ) - I gotsta study!