I found my 3 am dream job!

So the past couple days have gone by quickly. With being in school from 8:30 am until about 6:30 at night. Returning home, eating dinner and trying to get homework done in there, it is almost impossible to sit and reflect. Anyway, I have obtained a volunteer position at a patisserie/boulangerie (pastry/bread) down the street from my apartment. I will be working the 3 am shift on the weekends in order to help the person who makes the cakes and the beautiful things! But that doesn't start for a while. Anyway, my culinary adventures have highlighted seafood recently! A couple dinners ago, we had clams in a cream sauce mixed with tuna, capers, onions, carrots, and a couple other things, then put back into the clam shells, covered in cheese and butter and baked. It seems this is how my french mother cooks. Cover it with enough cheese and butter and it will be good! Anyway, then we've also been eating a lot of salad recently, I'm not sure if that's due to a fresh supply in the market or my french mother's whims. Anyway, then last night for dinner we had calamari (steamed) and put in a cold salad, served over rice. It was very interesting texture wise, and I think the calamari (although fresh) were slightly over cooked. I think my host family has also realized my obsession for unpasteurized cheese. Because I'm too scared to say I'm full in french (said the wrong way it means that one is pregnant) I often say that I am waiting for the cheese course to signal that I am done eating the main course, otherwise they will keep telling me to serve myself (even before I'm done with my first helping!) They are very generous with their food, almost too much though. But they now joke that the cheese is my favorite course because I'm always waiting for it! Oh well. Then tonight for dinner we had this tart, I am not sure what was all in the tart. I know there was salmon and goat cheese, but beyond that I am unsure. Then for dessert we had chocolate mousse. It was more like chocolate jello that my host mom made this afternoon and put in the fridge. It was still very good! I also have been having many culinary adventures during lunch time. Yesterday for lunch I went to "Good Food" which seemed like a less classy Leo's. I had a chicken gyro-type panini with fries. For 6 Euros, it was a good deal, and surprisingly good food. Then today for lunch, I went to Mille Pates. It's a mom and son run pasta joint. Everything is made fresh every morning. I had penne bologanese. It was delicious!
Non culinary news, my courses are dreadfully boring (having 6 hours a day of french grammar, is often too much). Then we also have European civilization, where as an American that went to an international high school, I hardly know any of the information they want us to regurgitate. Alas, also French students are very hard to get to know. They are often nice when taken into small groups out of their group of friends, but within their group of friends it is very difficult to break in and start small talk. I guess I need to become more of an extrovert, and maybe less of an accent will help too! But I cannot wait until the day that we form our groups with the English class. Then the French will have to speak English with us for an hour a week. The tables will turn! Finally, I am going to not one, but two flea markets this weekend, in hopes of finding antique cooking or bake-ware. I hope to find a very unique thing that I can only use to make one specific dessert that during the rest of it's life will be on display somewhere in my dream kitchen.
Ah to only dream, anyway I am off to do some homework before passing out and restarting a day of French grammar all over again.
Peace, Love, and baking at 3 am!