So I slept as much as possible over the past few days, and I think I'm actually beginning to recover. Good news. I spent a bit of time playing charades with my pharmacist to find some drugs that might actually help me. So now I have Doliprane and Bronchokod. Mmm...

Today, I woke up at 630am and left at 755am to get to my 9am class, only to find out that it had been canceled... for the semester. Blahh!!! Apparently this is normal for France... so I hear. Anyway, so now I'm not taking the social and political morals course. I will be taking the course entitled The Passage to Modernity, whatever that means. At least that gives me a fourth course. So then I went to a cafe and had a chocolat chaud until my next class started. Then my afternoon class was canceled! NOT for the whole semester, just cause my professor was sick. So my day quickly went from three classes to one. Bravo, Cassie!

So I planned my weekend to trip to Reims with Chantel and Sophia. I'm pretty stoked. We'll drink lots of champagne... I mean, that's what you're supposed to do there, right? And apparently I've already been there... whoops! I guess that's what happens when you travel a lot before you even have a brain.

Then I attempted to get Kelly to the Tour CIT, but that failed miserably. Oh well... We found each other eventually, and then we went shopping in Boulogne. I spent way too much on clothes, but I finally found the boots I wanted for cheap! Apparently the short, cute boots I got are called bottines, not bottes, in French. Anyway, I'm in love with them. I also bought my host parents a pretty bouquet of peach tulips to thank them for having me here and taking care of me while I'm sick. I guess that's a definite plus to living with a family.

Then, my mother made crepes for dinner to celebrate Mardi Gras! I ate 5 crepes, which I thought was a lot, but then everyone else ate at least twice as many... especially my host brother. I think he ate about 20. I should mention that they were very tiny crepes, and we could make them ourselves. We had all kinds of toppings for both savory and sweet crepes. There was gruyere, ham, eggs, hummus, guacamole, salmon, nutella, sugar, chestnut spread, bananas, raspberry jam, orange honey, and other things that I can't remember right now. Anyway, it was intensely amazing. I'm even beginning to joke around with my brother now. My host parents explained to me the other night that he's really very shy, but he puts on the tough guy act around his parents or when he's otherwise uncomfortable. I told them that's pretty normal, and they were like, no no, it's really bizarre. Whatever. He seems nice enough... maybe eventually we'll hang out.

I now can actually read the paper everyday, and I can understand most of the news on TV. I did ask my host parents to clarify what was happening with the amendments to France's constitution in relation to the European Treaty or whatever. I don't know the English words for things that I read in French. Haha. And I can understand what my parents and brother are talking about at dinner. So, I suppose I'm making progress.

Tonight my host father should me a magic trick with two corks, and he said I have until tomorrow morning to figure it out. He does and is like, isn't it easy? You try. And I'm like... uhh... and I totally make a fool of myself trying to figure out this stupid trick with corks. Oh well. He'll tell me tomorrow. Or I might just fiddle with that instead of doing homework.

The goal is to sleep tonight in order to be able to do more fun stuff tomorrow and in the near future. Hence, I leave you. Good night.