Piayot Goes to France

Daylight Saving Time Victim

Blooper of the Day # 1

I woke up this morning at 9am, or at least I thought so, because the two clocks which were in my immediate vicinity this morning displayed 9am. My class today was schedule to start at 10am, so I rushed about, a bit afraid that a moment of laziness may cost me my attendance in one of the last meetings for my subject MGE.

As a final touch to my outfit, I put on my wristwatch, and toink! The time was only 9:00 am. Grr. I checked my laptop for the time and yes, it was 9:00 am. I asked my friend Karol online what the time was, and he confirmed it was 9am. I'm a victim to the daylight saving time scheme again. tsk2. I forgot that I didn't adjust my two big alarm clocks. Oh well, at least I had time to go about my other room chores (I would have said household chores but I only have one room so that's it. hehe).

Blooper of the Day # 2

After my daylight saving time ordeal, i went to class from 10am to 5:30 pm, with a 1.5-hour break during lunch. Anyways, since my class was in French, I could only understand segments of the sentence and a seatmate would explain to me what the teacher is saying. Anyways, at the start of the afternoon class, the teacher said that we would be having an early dismissal since some of the students wanted to watch the football match in Paris (Yup, if some Filipinos are addicted to basketball enough to buy thousand-peso tickets for a UAAP Game in Araneta, some French students are addicted enough to football to go all the way to Paris from Lille [mind you, 36 euros na ung papunta palang ng Paris ha... ung actual ticket price, that's another story].)Of course, being the "excitable" person that I am, I was looking at the clock every so often. Anyways, 5:00 came and the students started to stand up. So I grabbed my bag and rushed to the door while pictures of food paraded in my mind (Hehehe, I was pretty excited because I was going to the grocery to buy a week's supply of food after class). But Juliette held on to my bag, and asked me where I was going.

"To my dorm and then to Carrefour" with a grin.

"We're not allowed to go yet. We're going to have a discussion for the promotion."

"Hehe, you're kidding me. Really now..."

Juliette smiled and I was really convinced she was tricking me. "Look at everyone, they're standing around but their bags are still on their seats."

I looked around. Yup everyone was having a chat with their group of friends - and yes, their bags were there on their seats. *Gulp. I hope they didn't notice my big pink Jansport perched on my back when I was on the way out.* What's worse, I remembered seeing a puzzled look cross my seatmate Bertrand's face when I said "Au revoir" before I grabbed my bag. After 5 minutes, I was back in my seat by his side, still a bit dazed about my foiled grocery exploration mission and trying to forget that I tried saying goodbye just a few minutes earlier.

posted by Pia @ 11:18 PM