Post- le dix-septième

*Why do the French put egg on everything, kinda like sunny-side-up-ish? This is actually really yummy, but it is certainly quite different! Egg on pizza. Egg on hamburger. Egg on crepe. So, I am getting plenty of protein. I should be running more, too, but I have been too busy and it has been too drizzly.



*Monday, I met up with the group visiting from my law school (http://mainelaw.maine.edu/) and a group of French law students from Le Mans involved in an interesting seminar program (http://mainelaw.maine.edu/students/academic-program/franco-american-seminar.jsp) and went to the Conseil d'État. Then Tuesday after my Droit de la concurrence course I again met up with them and went to the Conseil constitutionnel and the Assemblée nationale. I understood little at the Conseil d'État, but at the Conseil Constitutionnel I understood nearly 100%. I think it helps that this is an institution I have actually studied at length. I understood a fair amount at the Assemblée nationale, also. It was some sort of health care reform they were talking about....


*Mostly, though, I was just exhausted! I wake up at 6h45 to make it to Paris for the 9h00 course on Tuesdays.... After the Assemblée nationale, I took the metro to the Marais (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rue_des_Rosiers) to purchase hamentaschen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamentashen) because I had no time to bake them fresh and I wanted the family I'm staying with to taste these traditional Purim "cookies." My recipe is actually better than the 6 that I purchased for 9 euros!! They were pretty good, though, and my opinion may be biased.... Or perhaps just sleep deprived.


*Thus, I am going to go collapse in order to get up at the rump-crack of dawn again tomorrow for another busy day of classes.... Corporate Governance will be attrocious, but I am actually really enjoying my French class, even though we had a conjugation test last time and a dictée (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictation_(exercise)). It's probably entirely wrong that I dread the law classes but enjoy the language class, right? Well, it's not fair to say that I dread the law classes...the EU Human Rights Seminar is actually quite compelling. It is just the business law focused classes that seem to...er...lack focus? Je ne sais pas.... But I do need sleep...so off I go.... Bonne nuit!


-A