i hate being siiiiiickkkkkkkkkkk!

Hi people!

Well. Today. Oh today, not a good day for Shelley.

Woke up at my normal 6 am and wanted to cry. Felt like absolute crap. Class at 9am? Ya right, like I ever skip class.

Finished the Amanda Knox movie (Side note: NEVER watch that WHILE studying abroad.. I trust Alexa and Bess (my roommates) so no worries, but seriously.. being not too far away from Piragua…… it freeks me out like Taken freeks Alexa out. We both were like YOU WILL NEVER BRING A GUY BACK TO THIS APARTMENT! And I was like girl, no worries!! Even if I did, I would stalk him when he leaves and if he calls anyone I would have the Italian police here in like 2 seconds!!!! (Scene out of Taken made me come up with that!!).. Speaking of, never watch that movie while studying abroad either. Alexa and I had the safety talk last night.. We both are OCD about locking the doors, we live on the fourth floor, and our door is not even close to being one you can break down. So we both do feel a lot safer due to that!!)

Anyways, went back to bed. 8:35 rolls around, class at 9. I was like UGHHH I guess I will get ready for class. Went to financial accounting.. Midterm next week. PRAY FOR ME in general for next week. Ughh I am stressing. Then I went and worked out for some stupid reason I will never know. Then I went to the market to get my dried kiwi and melon and pineapple. I am obsessed no thanks to Alexa!! It is soooo good. The guy knows Alexa and I now and gave us both flowers for National Woman’s Day J! He is so cute!

Then I came back to the apartment and cleaned for a bit and went to baking. I don’t know why but for some reason I was so excited for today. I LOVE that class now! Valerie and the others are so awesome! And I am so jealous of Valerie because she works for a bakery here in town! I would obsess over doing that! She loves it!

So today we did not make the extra danishes like we were supposed to, NBD, we had enough of everything anyways. But we made a cake in honor of National Woman’s Day with sponge cake, pastry cream, and some type of special alcohol. It turned out really neat, but I don’t like cream or cake…… and do not like putting alcohol in deserts. Then we made the rest of the puff pastry into rectangles and baked them. Then Chef cut them into circles and put powered sugar on top and put it back in the oven to caramelize. Then he mixed some of the pastry cream with whipped cream and did layers of the puff pastry, cream mix, and then he tempered some dark chocolate into 2 circles to go on top. It turned out really cool looking but I didn’t try that one either!! Then we made these grahm cracker looking sandwiches filled with cut up sponge cake and pastry cream mix. Again, didn’t try that one. Then Valerie and I, besides the prepping the puff pastry made…… APPLE STRUDEL!!!!!! Omg I was like where is Ainsley (who I went to Vienna and Salzburg with!) We are both obsessed and would go back to Salzburg in like 2 seconds just for Strudel and Shnitzel and Sausage!! Not even kidding! But we made the strudel with the leftover puff pastry and apples, sugar, raisins, lemon zest, bread crumbs, and walnuts and rolled it up! It looked so good and tasted great of course! I was all over trying that one! Plus we all ate the left over puff pastry sheets like pigs! Happy Fat Tuesday BTW! J

Another successful baking class, but I wish I didn’t feel like I was going to pass out the whole time.

I raced home and jumped right into bed after grabbing some juice. I feel like I have a fever, I have a horrible headache, and the onset of a cold. I will pay the person who wants to bring me Bread Co Chicken Noodle Soup and a LARGE cookie dough sundae from Culvers. If you bring me one from Ted Drewe’s I will buy your ticket round trip! HAHA! I wishhhhhh!

But seriously…… I am craving so much American food right now. I would pay 50 dollars for a bottle of KC Masterpiece or some China King Crab Rangoon.

Anyways.. Please do pray for me when it comes to Mid Terms. I am afraid. I have one in baking and I told Valerie WE ARE SO STUDYING TOGETHER! SOOO hopefully that will help me J!

Otherwise pray for me that I get better. I would do anything to curl up in a ball and watch an SVU marathon right now, I won’t lie.

Hope you all are doing better than myself though J!!!!!

Love and Miss.