Pastry Wednesday: Croissant

Hey all,

I want to apologize in advance for the following blog, as it will most likely be very boring. How's that for an attention-getter? I'm sure my past English teachers would not approve. However, it's 10:30 pm, I had class for 9 hours today, and I'm tired. The most I managed to do was eat a croissant, and I'm going to tell you about it. There's another writing faux-pas, telling the audience what you're going to write about. I'm really sorry.

Today, I brought two clementines to school, thinking that between 10:30 and 4:30 they would be enough to sustain me until I could rush to a bakery somewhere and get my Pastry Wednesday pastry. I was wrong, obviously, I don't know how I thought two measly clementines would possibly be enough to eat for six hours. I was originally only going to bring one until I thought, "no, let's be indulgent and take TWO! Walking on the wild side, today." Generally, sitting in three hour long each classes in painful enough, especially when they're titled "Tocqueville and American Democracy in the Internet Age." Sitting in these classes is even more difficult when you're starving. After listening to my stomach growl for about an hour, at break time the girl next to me said concernedly with her hand on my shoulder, "don't you think you should go eat?" But with ten minutes, the only thing one can do is eat a room temperature clementine that's been sitting in their bookbag for some hours.

FINALLY, my half an hour break between classes came, and I literally sprinted off to a street where I knew somewhere there must be a bakery. I had a hankering for an almond croissant, but the first one I found only had plain. I was so hungry I bought it anyway (only .75 euro!) and ran back to my next three hour class. I took about twenty minutes to eat it bit by bit, savoring every buttery morsel. (I definitely didn't tip the bag into my mouth to get the last crumbs or anything) I don't know if it tasted so good because it was actually good, or because I was in the beginnings of starvation, but either way, it was delicious. I liked that bakery a lot, and plan to go next Wednesday. They had some interesting looking tartes.

I'd tell you about croissants, but let's be honest, you all know what they are already. And I'm going to bed.