Jill ne sais quoi

For election day, Monica came over and slept on the canape. We woke up at 4h00 (Sam had woken up at 2) and turned on the French TV and then found coverage on CNN.com. We stayed up and then went to class for 10h30. I had bought champagne/candy necklaces/chips for celebration, but after only 4 hours of sleep we all felt pretty gross and didn't end up eating anything.

The day was kind of rough, we were all pretty zonked. But it was totally worth it to watch the speeches and then to watch the French newscasters reactions to everything. The caption on the French TV started out with "Goodbye Mr. Bush!" and then quickly changed to "Good morning Mr. Obama!" Everyone here was so excited. The French love him.

But back to the day after. We struggled through class, and then went to the office where we got some of the Paris program paperwork debacle sorted out. I'm still really nervous because apparently the Paris coordinator sent Marie-Eve an e-mail saying "Oh hey, so I'm going to come meet with the three Grenoble students who are coming to Paris next semester!", to which Marie-Eve swiftly replied. "Umm...what? There are six of them." It's so ridiculous. But now that I've faxed a bunch of stuff in, I'm much less stressed.

Also I went to tutoring, and felt terrible because my brain was NOT functioning and I just couldn't speak. But the family had gone to Switzerland for the weekend, and the bought me a box of Swiss chocolate! So super nice. See? I don't need euros, they pay me in delicious food.