Though I've been here almost a week (weird), I'm still on a bizarre time zone. I'm sure once classes start / I'm on some sort of regular schedule, it will be better, but I constantly feel tired no matter how much I sleep. Friday and Saturday nights we went out to some hoppin French scenes and hung out with some new IES kids. We also got our first taste of pushy French men. Whew, good thing I've acquired friends who help me thwart their ever continuing advances. Thrilling as this is, it's more amusing to think about the mistakes I've made since coming here.
1. Preservatifs DOES NOT EQUAL preservatives. It's condoms. I wish someone had told me that.
2. Je suis chaud DOES NOT MEAN I am hot, it means come to my bedroom, I am hot for you (words of seduction).
(Luckily I made the previous two mistakes at our dinner table where Mimi was very forgiving. She finds me amusing and American like. In one case, I said that French food has less condoms than American food. In the other I basically said I was "hot" at night. Go figure.)
3. Just because you can get off a subway stop does not mean you can make your way back to that subway stop. However, getting lost in Paris is nothing to laugh at. Last night, we were walking back to our subway stop, got lost, ended up at the Louvre. This cannot be complained about because it was GORGEOUS. I want to do all my sight seeing at night.
4. Putting your hands under the table while you eat is not acceptable. The French view it as sketchy, because who knows what you're doing with them.
5. Smiling at strangers is not allowed. It just makes the sketchy French men think you're coming on to them. (With the first two mistakes, it would seem like I am...)
No comments:
Post a Comment