Breakfast - You get up and eat a croissant and expresso. This is not filling. At all. Our host mom was kind enough to get us cereal so I'm extremely thankful for that. But cereal doesn't work when you don't have milk, so back to the croissants it is. And I don't know how to work her expresso machine. So no expresso.
Lunch - This is so backwards to me. Lunch is one heck of an ordeal over here. I thought people might be over exaggerating when they say people eat lunch for two hours. How is that even possible? In 9th grade when my french teacher told me that I thought she was crazy. It was not a joke. Two. Hours. Each. Time. It's the biggest meal of the day. You usually start with bread, then a salad, a pasta, a meat, and a dessert. Over the span of two hours. The bring it out to you very slowly, and you eat each dish for like 20 minutes. It's so peculiar to me, but now I understand why it takes 2 hours. Oh, and don't forget the wine. That better go with every lunch or it isn't a complete lunch.
Dinner - This takes place between 9pm and 10pm. Dinner is very delicious and considered a "smaller" meal during the day, though it seems sometimes just as big as lunch, just over a shorter period of time. An example of our host mom's home cooked meal. It was delicious thought the wait is difficult.
This is the hard part. Because we obviously don't go out and eat a huge lunch since we have class so you eat this little sandwich, spend all day walking around, spend a long period of time at the gym, and then need to wait until 9pm to eat. So today, this was the result. Spending a day in class, walking for a total of two hours around town, and spending 2 hours at the gym and only haven eaten breakfast, this was our 4:30pm "lunch".
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