Ouf.

So I had my first exam today...which was no good. First off, I was really tired. I fell asleep around 2:00am, and then I must have had a nightmare or something because I just shot out of bed at like 4:30 in the morning, and had to walk around my house for a while before I could fall back asleep. So this morning I had a cup of coffee with my breakfast...and let me tell you this, French coffee is SO MUCH STRONGER than American coffee. So all morning I'm sitting in my class, wide-eyed and trembling. My hands were literally shaking, I was so wired.

And there was the exam itself. It was so hard! I thought I knew everything pretty well, but my professor included a ton of vocabulary that A) we didn't go over in class and B) I had never seen before. I guess everyone else agreed that the exam was unfairly hard, but it's still frustrating.

Hmm what else...oh yes. I look conspicuously American today, for at least three reasons. One, I have my hair back in a regular old ponytail. That's so rare here...everyone normally wears their hair down or at least kind of styled. Second, I'm wearing a regular t-shirt, like the kind you'd get for participating in a race or something. NOBODY wears these. I mean, you'll see boys in them sometimes, but NEVER girls. Third, my t-shirt is bright red...and I'm starting to wonder if the French believe in colors at all.

Anyway, that was sort of random and ranty. Everything else is good. Hopefully my laptop will be hooked up tomorrow, so I can tell you all about Mt. St. Michel :)