Whew!

I am officially done with my most crazy and stressful day! Yesterday, I had to give a presentation in my Arts in Paris class (on the way Schoenberg influenced Kandinsky), and then straight from there, I had to go take my final exam for French Cinema in the 1970s (a three-hour long essay/dissertation). On top of that, the 1970s class was BY FAR my least favorite class of the semester. A bunch of us American students took it, and basically, the teacher was just horrible and made our lives as difficult as possible. Even our tutor at Reid Hall, who is ALSO a professor at Paris VII, could hardly contain his frustration with her. But it's all done now!! I still have two finals and one paper to go, but they won't be quite as bad.

In other news, it is exactly two weeks from today that I fly home! I have very mixed feelings about it. Overall, it has been an AMAZING time here, but at this point, I am very ready to head back to the good ol' US. I have talked to my friends here about it, and most of them feel the same. It has just been a long time to be away from our home country (5 whole months!), and longer than any semester at Columbia. I miss my US friends, family, and the comforts of being in my home country. That being said, I am starting to feel pressed that I only have two more weeks to fit in whatever Parisian things I want to do!! I need to make the most of my remaining time here!