FIELD NOTE 3.65 - Admit it, boy: you're lost.

I have no idea what's going on in French culture class. I walked in today, sat down, and the professor immediately began asking us all questions about the results from the past election and what hypotheses we could think of to explain them. While all I wanted to yell at him was that I have no idea about the results of the election and that I am in this class in order to learn about them, I responded with something that was the equivalent of "response to the present government" - a response which rewarded me with a blank stare from the professor. All I get from this professor is blank stares. Okay, that's not completely true - once I got a blank stare and a head tilt.
This class has become my weekly gauntlet and I tell myself that if I can just sit through these two hours every Monday morning that I can get through every other class during the class with no difficulty. Still, it is a true test of endurance, sitting there and realizing how little I know and how little I've learned.
This week the time passed more quickly than normal as I lost myself in the differences between the American governmental system and the French governmental system and how the terms "liberal" and "conservative" can be applied to a single person in France depending on their political views. Before I knew it my bag was packed and I was out the door with my iPod on and my spirit still happy.