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French cooking galore! First on Saturday when our volleyball team made delicious treats for our get-together, last night and now again next week! Yesterday I had class all day and it was pretty disappointing as the class appeared to have potential when it first started out, but then the professor turned out to be a complete failure. He showed up to class (this was the second time we had him) an hour late and then tried keeping us after class. He also couldn't get his technology to work so Leah and I played Family Feud for about 45 minutes as he had someone else try and fix his computer. But the class was on internet marketing and when he was actually teaching I found most of what he had to say interesting. I mostly like how companies study consumers to find out behavioral patterns and trends on the internet. Some advertising companies watch what you type on the internet and based on key words they know which ads to send your way..no wonder I get so many ads about shoe sales! After class for 6 hours (well, about 4 really) I had my French class. I love learning the language and then hearing it around me, but I'm still at the stage where I'll hear a word, think "Hey! I just learned that word!" and then still not know what they're talking about because I only know I learned the word, not actually remember what it means. Alas, I will press on. Leah met me at the tram stop and we went to the grocery store to buy bagettes and cheese to take to our wonderful French friend's apartment. Malika and her roommate offered to cook dinner for us and another foreign girl from Columbia. It was to die for!! We had bread, cheese, and mini sausages for an appetizer, some wonderful baked tomato stuffed with meat mixture and rice for the main course, and apple crumble for dessert. Yumm. Today was class about international retail and marketing, the teacher is from England ergo his accent is heaven, and I really enjoyed learning about the different consumer trends in different counties and cultures. I think the part I enjoy the most is the amount of homework I don't have to do. I have a paper due tomorrow and it's the second one I've had to write in 5 weeks of school. I might drop out of Butler and move to France until I graduate. Except that wouldn't work because the non-exchange students actually do a lot more work than me. But I'm not complaining. Tonight I walked about 45 min to the center to buy some conditioner as my hair now loosely resembles straw and feels like it too, and to buy a new nose ring as mine fell out yesterday. That was a rather interesting experience as the man at the tatoo and piercing place didn't speak English and my French is, well, nonexistent. So it involved lots of hand motions and defeated smiles. The most I understood was when he said "I no pay attention in English class" and I responded with, "moi aussi." :) Other than that I should definitely be writing my paper and not this. Oh! But I met a girl at our volleyball match last Saturday. Her name is Julia and she is studying abroad at Butler next semester! She's incredibly sweet and offered to cook traditional French food for Leah and me next week sometime. Yay! So if anyone has any cheap, easy, traditional American food that we can start cooking in return for everyone's awesomeness, let me know! (and no, I do not want to cook hot dogs, mac and cheese, or peanut butter and jelly...mostly because they don't sell peanut butter here :( I need ideas!) Other than that Leah is leaving me tomorrow. It's her friend's 21st birthday tomorrow and she's studying abroad in Montpellier so Leah's going to surprise her. Alas I will have to eat dinner by myself with the fambam for two nights in a row...can't waiiit. But then I will go to PARIS and it will be fabulous. Now to write the unavoidable paper due tomorrow. I have an hour and ten minutes. Go.