FIELD NOTE 3.3 - First days back are hard, even harder in French.

It's always hard to fall back into the routine of classes after a week of vacation. This morning I learned that it is even harder to do in France, especially since returning to class means returning to a class where the teacher tends to speak with a pen in his mouth at all time and whose lessons seem to have no rhyme or reason to them. I'll admit that I also made it a little bit harder on myself after having spent most of the week speaking more English than was necessary.

But still the culture class wasn't at all fun or easy. And somewhere in the midst of discussing French agriculture's importance to the people of France and the changes wrought upon the French language by the Visigoths, I was somehow signed up to give a presentation on a francophone writer next Monday.
By the time class let out and I had my one hour break between classes, I was so frazzled that I did the only thing I could think of: I rushed to the nearest restaurant and bought a pain au chocolat.