Beaucoup de travail!

Man, have I ever felt the need to know the correct translation for "Thank God it's Friday", haha! It was a difficult week, but this time it had nothing to do with culture shock, broken computers, or normal study abroad woes...this time, it was just me and my procrastinating that gave me a tough time!

The UCers all had a dissertation, or "essay" due on Wednesday morning at 8am...It wasn't too difficult, 3 pages written on whether or not work=freedom. However, I had class until 8pm on Tuesday, then it took me an hour to get home, due to bad luck with the bus schedules. Also, Eva and I had been invited to eat dinner at our landlady, Sabine's house, so when I arrived home, it was straight to dinner, where Sabine made us a really nice meal, complete with salad, bread, wine, dessert, and what seemed like hours of chit chat. I finally arrived home to work on my essay at 11pm, just 8 hours before I'd have to be out the door ready to catch the bus! Yikes.

I finished it....eventually. But my lack of sleep on Tuesday night seriously messed me up for the rest of the week, which was bad because I had another assignment to work on for Thursday! My friend Sarah from Santa Barbara and I had a presentation on Thursday about Forrest Gump. It went alright, I forced myself to go to sleep at midnight since I had class the next morning, but even so, I felt pretty ill during my French History class (a combination of lack of sleep & too much caffeine in the morning with not enough food!) so I decided to go home after the halfway break, and I relaxed until I had to make the trek back out to IEP. The presentation went well, but the professor kind of cut us short because class was almost over (the film clips that he picked went a lot longer than we thought they would).

Since then, I've been relaxing and using the internet! I can't decide if it's a good thing that I figured out how to connect to internet at my apartment..I think being able to access Facebook makes me miss all my friends a lot more, which is kind of what I was afraid of when I decided to come here. I can definitely say that I'm homesick, but not in such a way that it makes me want to cancel everything and go home, just that I want to live my 3rd year at UCSB vicariously through everyone! As long as I don't let it inhibit my experience here, I think I should be fine. :)

But for now, I'll just appreciate my lazy day (which I've spent thus far trying to figure out how I can conceivably add an Education minor to my Global Studies/French double major...looks like summer school is in my future!)...maybe fill out my Absentee ballot for the Presidential Election, clean up the room, and make myself a nice dinner tonight! We have another EAP excursion early tomorrow morning...I honestly have no idea where we're going, but apparently it involves caves! SWEET!

Bon week-end!