Final day of class

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?! I certainly can't. I've barely had a chance to gather my thoughts in the past few days. We actually had a ton of written assignments that we needed to turn into Johnson and Wales before the end of classes, so I've been holed up at my desk like a hermit trying to finish everything. The good news is I DID and now I am free to drink vin and play yam until I'm blue in the face.

Here's an actual photo of my final project - I finally was able to download them from my roommate's computer.

I think my drawing was pretty close, no?

We spent the last two days working on savory items. In France this means:

• macaroons filled with liver
• macaroons filled with salmon mousse
• puff pastry filled with smooched up meat or fish
• pain surprise (this is awesome. You make a giant loaf of bread, hollow out the middle, and fill it with tiny sandwiches. SURPRISE! SANDWICHES!)
• millions of quiches

This massive spread is ours to enjoy after our graduation ceremony.  I took the lead on the quiche train, as I didn't really feel like touching a dead duck at 6 in the morning. I probably made about 20 quiches, as I am a quiche machine.

After making twenty quiches, I decided to make about eight billion miniature fruit tarts. What is a tart if not a quiche filled with dessert? Am I right?

I made about 30 of them before I realized that they looked like creepy eyeballs.

YIKES! I drizzled some chocolate on them in an effort to make them look less creepy.

On our last day of class, we had an awesome Thanksgiving lunch. A bunch of people are traveling after we graduate (not me… sad panda), so they will miss real Thanksgiving. I have to say that the we (the students and caterers) did a great job recreating an American meal - it was complete  with all the fixings including stuffing, green bean casserole, and mashed potatoes.

Just like real Thanksgiving, I od-ed on mashed potatoes and gave myself a bellyache.

Tomorrow is graduation, and then we are packing up and heading out early Saturday morning.  I can't believe that two days from now, I'll be back in America. I haven't been gone that long, but I feel like I've missed a lot. I mean… Kim Kardashian is already divorced... I missed the premiere of Twilight… CLEARLY the world has been spinning without me.  Hopefully everything else is pretty much the same when I get back!