French Interviews and Snacks

If I had the time, I'd try to figure out a way to write this entire blog post in French, in honor of the thing I have today. I have to meet with my French teacher and talk to her for five minutes straight in French only. And I am super nervous.

This week is so, soo busy; but all yesterday that I wasn't in class or eating, I spent studying my French flash cards. And yet I'm scared they won't be enough. I worry that although I know so many individual words, I won't be able to put them together well enough to make a good grade in this "oral interview."

But I suppose that's enough worrying for one blog post. What shall I talk about next?

Oh, I'm running out of snacks in my room. xD

I asked for more when I was home for Thanksgiving, and I was told to write what I needed on the grocery list. But then I came back here Sunday, forgetting even to ask if those items had been bought yet.

So now I have no granola bars to snack on, but I have something similarish yet more filling. And I have peanut butter, but nothing to spread it on. I tried eating just plain peanut butter the other day, but it didn't really work out. I'm not like some of you people out there that can just get a spoonful of peanut butter and eat it plain, unfortunately.

Anyways, I won't starve. A lack of snacks isn't going to kill me. And if it nearly does, I have friends with food that have begged me to liberate some food from them anytime I want.

So. Odd post, going off on two different topics, but there it is. I'm off to study French again!

Chocolate

I love chocolate.

I'm pretty sure you knew that already, but I thought I'd make it clear just in case. Chocolate is awesome, and it comes in so many different forms! I won't be able to list them all here, but I sure can make a valiant effort anyways.

Three Musketeers. Mah. Fave. Just so... so... delicious! Hard-ish chocolate shell, inside chocolate fluffiness. Mmmmm!

Hershey's chocolate bar. Plain and simple milk chocolate, arranged to be easily broken into bite-sized pieces of paradise. Perfection hides itself in simplicity.

M&M's. All those colors, all those white m's, such unreproduceable goodness! Seriously. I went to Ryan's a few years back and got some M&M's that, as it turned out, weren't actual authentic M&M's. They were Ryan's candy-coated chocolate, and they did not taste the same. Still pretty good, but not the same.

Kisses. Little drops of chocolate wrapped in that almost-as-incredible invention that is so hard and yet addicting to get smoothed out without ripping it. The playing with the wrapper is almost as amazing as eating the chocolate. Almost.

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. A perfect blend of chocolate and peanut butter for the fan who dares to wish for a bit of variety.

Yes, yes, all these are fantastic! But is there more? Of course there is! There's so much more out there that uses milk chocolate, and I haven't even mentioned the dark chocolate and the white chocolate! And even that has yet to touch on the different forms such as hot chocolate! It would take days, perhaps weeks (possibly even months!), to list all the different forms chocolate can take and still be delicious. Maybe I'll continue this later, maybe not.

At any rate, my overdue post about chocolate has been written. You're welcome.

Breakfast

I'm hungry, so guess what this morning's topic is going to be?

Before moving to college, I rarely had a healthy breakfast. I had all those cereals that kids love but really should avoid: Cap'n Crunch, Lucky Charms, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, etc. I also loved those sugary pop tarts, especially the ones with chocolate in them. And on rare occasions, when I could wait for Mom or Dad to cook it, I'd have French toast or pancakes - doused with syrup, of course.

Yum, yum, yum! You agree, right? Right?? ...But not healthy. The only times I'd ever have a healthy breakfast was when I got the Mini-Wheat cereal.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Should a person really be putting that much sugar in their system so early in the day? Probably not recommended, although I guess I am proof that it could be done.

However, I am also proof that it can be changed! Now that I go to the college cafeteria for breakfast on weekdays, I get all sorts of fruit for breakfast. Mostly cantaloupe and grapes, but sometimes they have strawberries and peaches too. Admittedly, that often goes with a piece of French toast and syrup, but sometimes instead I get tater tots or hash browns or some other form of breakfast potato.

And now, on weekends, I can no longer stand to get such unhealthy breakfasts as before; it just doesn't start my day off well. I joke that college has ruined me, and I do miss my old breakfast; but I love my new one a lot too.

I heard a story from a friend who recently went to college. She said that, just like my college, hers had all of the sugary cereal and an ice cream machine available at breakfast. She would combine the two to have dessert for breakfast. I have to admit, that sounds delicious; but I have yet to try it and prove to myself how delicious it truly is. Maybe if I never know, I'll never have to find out. One can hope, right?

So how are you doing with your breakfasts?