While I expressed my deep hatred for French strikes on the last post, I must admit that today, I was the #1 supporter of the strikes. I didn't have to work today because the teachers I was supposed to work with today were all striking. And I didn't work all of Friday afternoon, the weekend, Monday, or Tuesday. I'm not working tomorrow either. Life is good.
So today, I spent the day curled up in my warm bed, downloading Christmas songs and singing them with my roommate (as well as shedding some light upon the meaning of these English lyrics for her which she knows but does not understand). The one productive thing I did do was manage to spend 60 euro on Christmas decorations and pumpkin pie ingredients. Christmas lights are so expensive here...a set of 100 bulbs is 9 freakin' euro! I can get the same product in the states for 99 cents at Walgreens. And that's not even for the multi-colored lights.
I'm supposed to go to a pseudo Thanksgiving dinner at Annie's house (the one that adopted me, kinda) on Friday and I offered to make a pumpkin pie. Which P.S., I've never made. Finding the ingredients for this pumpkin pie I'm supposedly making was quite the task. As expected, French supermarkets do not have heavy whipping cream, canned pumpkin puree or other basic items needed to make this Thanksgiving dessert in stock. So the creation of this pie will be totally improvised. I bought an actual pumpkin slice....do you think that if I just mash that up and throw in some eggs, flour and sugar, a delicious, American, homemade pie will be the end result?
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Hmm...let me know how that pie turned out!
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