Fatigue

It's been a long day. I took two benedryl last night around 2 am because my cough has been making it hard to sleep the past few nights, so I thought it would be a good idea...wrong. I slept right through my 7 am alarm this morning. Luckily Mikayla came knocking on my door at 8 am, otherwise I probably would have missed class completely! Unfortunately, there was only enough time for me to get dressed, splash some water on my face and grab a piece of baguette before heading to the metro for school. So I was a filthy, sleepy mess. The benedryl was still in my system throughout class and I had an extremely hard time staying awake! I really just wanted to go straight home and take a nice long nap, but after class Mikayla and I needed to go to the MICEFA office because we wanted to complete our OFII (Immigration) forms. Annoyingly enough, the other American students from a different program arrived today and were clogging up the MICEFA office. We waited for a bit, and then decided to go get ice cream, in hopes that the office would empty out by the time we returned. It was an extremely hot day, I was wearing black pants, and the Marche Franprix (where we got ice cream) was not as close as I would have liked. When we finally got back to the office, the people were STILL there and it turns out MICEFA wasn't going to do any OFII forms for us today because they were so swamped with new students (annoying). So the trip to MICEFA was completely pointless and I could have been sleeping the whole time. When we finally got back to the hostel, I tried to take a nap, but once again my cough prohibited me from doing so. I swear, my cough always gets 10 times worse when I'm in my room, it must be exceptionally dusty or something because I can never breathe in there. I finally fell asleep for maybe 10 minutes, which was totally not satisfying. I chilled in the hostel for a long time and then a group of us decided to walk down the street and get pizza at Speed Rabbit. We all sat up on the terrace and enjoyed pizza, Orangina, wine, and showtunes, it was exactly what needed to wind down from the stressful, exhausting day. I got to Skype with my wonderful boyfriend for a bit, which always brightens my day, so the day ended on a good note. I think I'm gonna go to bed early tonight, because I need to catch up on my sleep! In the past 10 days that I have been here I have not gone to bed before 2 am, so I think that needs to change!

The beautiful sunset that we enjoyed from the terrace :)