failed cooking

Usually, when I cook something for the first time, I'm always nervous that it won't come out good, but 99% of the time it does anyway. However, I needed to do a cultural activity for Spanish, so I looked up a recipe for natillas, a Spanish custard-type dessert. The first easy-looking recipe I found called for corn flour, so I went gallivanting all over town for two days trying to find some (Wal-mart didn't have any). I found some, and paid nearly five dollars for cinnamon sticks (the recipe called for just one), and today I tried cooking it. It SO did not work! The mixture just stayed watery and chunky and I could not figure out what I did wrong. I went back to the recipe on the Internet, then looked at other recipes for Natillas, and I believe I found the problem. Every other recipe calls for corn starch, not corn flour. I think whoever wrote the recipe that I used accidentally said flour rather than starch. Which makes sense, because corn starch is what people use for custards, etc. for making it thicken. Grrrr. So I spent all that time looking for corn flour and wasted money just to throw my "natillas" away. So I opted for making sopaipillas, and they are not nearly as good as my mom's, and didn't puff up as much as normal sopaipillas do, but they're edible and pretty tasty. So that's what I'm taking to class tomorrow.

TOMORROW IS MY LAST DAY OF CLASS!!!!
I finished my last paper today!!! Finally!!!!! After weeks of tormentuous (I think I made that word up?) paper writing!!!! I have one online test to take by Monday, then I have my Spanish final on Monday, and my Comm. and Culture final on Thursday! Then I'll be packing and my family will come to help me move out, and within a few days after that, I'll be GONE from here and HOME for the summer! Wahoo!!! I'm happy :-)