Fried Chicken, Mashed Potatoes and Crêpes?!

So this past week was reading week for the English department which meant that all English classes were cancelled. Seeing how 3 out of 6 of my classes are all English classes I ended up with a lot of empty time. I’m pretty sure I didn’t do anything with all of that extra time. I did thoroughly go through and clean my room though. I also started 2 of my papers that aren’t due for another 3 weeks. On top of it being reading week it was also rag week. Basically they designate an entire week of drinking all day every day and each night has themed parties and all of the proceeds go to charity. I can see why they do it, they call whiskey uisce beatha in Gaeilge which translates to water of life, and everyone goes out and drinks. It’s sort of what UConn is like during Spring Week(end) and half the students aren’t even going to class to begin with. The classes that I did actually have were pretty much empty. I have a 2 hour lecture on Wednesday and if you miss that lecture you miss a lot and there were probably 15 of us out of a class of about 50, it was sad. The teachers go on as normal though and the students who miss, well it’s their loss. The really good thing about rag week though is that the crêpe man was on campus all week and I finally gave in and got a strawberry and nutella crêpe. He made it fresh right in front of you and the strawberries were also fresh and it was really, really good. A lot of times I wonder how I’m going to go back to American food after being abroad but since I cook I make enough American dishes that it won’t be that difficult. I will definitely miss certain things from here though. Speaking of American food we got really American Thursday night and made fried chicken with mashed potatoes for dinner. I got to do dessert and I made little crêpes. We had all sorts of different toppings to put on them, I even made a marshmallow sauce which was pink because they only had pink and white marshmallows in a bag at the store. I’m guessing marshmallows are another one of those things that Europeans really just don’t use. It’s a very American thing, which considering all of the sugar that’s in them it makes sense. That’s really it for this week it wasn’t that eventful, which was nice since last weekend was really busy. I’m looking forward to this weekend though; it’ll be a good one. Well have a great week!

With Love Always