Top Ten Questions
1. Why is there no shower curtain in the bathroom? Why not have one so that I can just shower in the morning without having to mop up the floor?
2. Why is there porno at everywhere (Ok, I’m not that surprised by that)?
3. Why and how do I look French? (Seriously guys I’m having the complete opposite experience as you, from reading the posts, it seems that by pure chance I blend in completely. I don’t know how, but it’s a little embarrassing sometimes. Random people come up to me in the metro or on the street and ask me for directions, or about how to buy a Carte Orange, or cigarettes in French. Its really embarrassing when you don’t know what they’re saying because they’re speaking way fast and with a lot of slang, and you kind of just sit there dumbly and say “uhhhhhhhh”. But sometimes I can answer them. For example, “The Eiffel Tour? Its really…wherever you want it to be.” My first day here, these two 9 year old kids came up to me and asked me for cigarettes, and I couldn’t understand them at all until they acted it out. Weird. But I guess my accent is not that bad, so maybe I can pass for French?)
4. Why can’t the Euro be slain by the Benjamin Franklin so that everything, food, wine, orangina (the essentials) won’t be so expensive?
5. Why is wine less expensive than a bottle of water? How the hell does that make sense?
6. How is it that my host mother or father can go into the kitchen, make dinner in maybe 10 minutes on something that would take me hours to do?
7. What is that distinct odour that lives in the metro, and do I want to know what it is?
8. Don’t French men realise that catcalls and shit like that does nothing? (The woman’s not going to turn around smiling and say, “Are you talking to me?”. I see it all the time on the metro and when I’m out with people. I suppose its sort of a Latin thang as I can see by one of Sarah’s posts. )
9. Why have I still not seen Absinthe?
10. Why must I ask questions…?
And.....Publish!
2. Why is there porno at everywhere (Ok, I’m not that surprised by that)?
3. Why and how do I look French? (Seriously guys I’m having the complete opposite experience as you, from reading the posts, it seems that by pure chance I blend in completely. I don’t know how, but it’s a little embarrassing sometimes. Random people come up to me in the metro or on the street and ask me for directions, or about how to buy a Carte Orange, or cigarettes in French. Its really embarrassing when you don’t know what they’re saying because they’re speaking way fast and with a lot of slang, and you kind of just sit there dumbly and say “uhhhhhhhh”. But sometimes I can answer them. For example, “The Eiffel Tour? Its really…wherever you want it to be.” My first day here, these two 9 year old kids came up to me and asked me for cigarettes, and I couldn’t understand them at all until they acted it out. Weird. But I guess my accent is not that bad, so maybe I can pass for French?)
4. Why can’t the Euro be slain by the Benjamin Franklin so that everything, food, wine, orangina (the essentials) won’t be so expensive?
5. Why is wine less expensive than a bottle of water? How the hell does that make sense?
6. How is it that my host mother or father can go into the kitchen, make dinner in maybe 10 minutes on something that would take me hours to do?
7. What is that distinct odour that lives in the metro, and do I want to know what it is?
8. Don’t French men realise that catcalls and shit like that does nothing? (The woman’s not going to turn around smiling and say, “Are you talking to me?”. I see it all the time on the metro and when I’m out with people. I suppose its sort of a Latin thang as I can see by one of Sarah’s posts. )
9. Why have I still not seen Absinthe?
10. Why must I ask questions…?
And.....Publish!
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