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Alright, so the Paris post took longer to create than  expected, and I was surprisingly busy the last week, so here's the week in weather....It really was quite a bit colder with snow Wednesday evening through Thursday afternoon.  Like, I wish the weather had been this nice...

Of course, I check the weather every morning, to see what I'm in for.  And I prefer AccuWeather.com for that information, because it gives an hourly break down, and what the "Real Feel" is going to be, factoring in windchill and such.  On Thursday morning, however, the "Real Feel" was not appreciated.

SERIOUSLY?!?! NOT FUNNY.

Alright, that being done, school this week was quite enjoyable with such exchanges as:

Me: Hello, I come from California, and I was wondering if I should be doing anything different?  For Example, do I have different work to do and a different test?
Professor:  Yes, you should not do what the French students do, it will be too hard. You will have an oral final at the end, we will ask you questions about the class.
Me: Oh, great!  Is there any reading you would suggest?
Professor: You want to read?! That's great!  Yes, this book is good, you can read it in English if you want.

Some professors like foreign students, and some don't, but for the most part, as I awkwardly stumble up to them to chat, and fumble through my speech, they think: My goodness, she is foreign, she should not do the same work as everyone else, but wow, she's brave for coming here....I have been told on multiple occasions about how "brave" I am for taking classes in France and how it is quite "rigorous" and will be very challenging.  Good, bring it.  As of this moment, due to my blatant foreignness I have very little actual work, because nothing is graded, and we do separate things that the French students.  I am excited to get into the meat of things.

Also, I finally made some French friends!  Though, I think that they are just making fun of me and my friends because they talk so fast.  But, they were nice enough to give us their phone numbers, addresses, and e-mails, and they said we should hang out some time....how nice.  I just don't want them to laugh at how foreign we are all the time, nor do I want to be a party trick thing ("Hey, did you see what the Californians just did!? Oh, silly Californians").  Trying to show off, because I obviously was floundering as they whispered French very quickly in my ear during lecture, Jordan decided to write me a note. Because he's so proficient at the English language, and so much better at English than I am at French....hmmmm.  Though I have the sneaking suspicion that I might sound like that, I really hope not...

Also Mamette and Papi are back for the week and I'm very pleased.  It's Chinese New Year today, and I'm going to eat Chinese food (yikes!) in France! I will let you know how it turns out.....Gung Hay Fat Choy!