Interesting Insights

Let's see:

1. French people have NO idea who John Mayer is.

2. But in every one of my classes, there were people who knew who Ben Harper is.

3. I've run out of interesting things....

But!

This week I:

-ate an avocado with vinagrette, just like that, oh and with salt. Turns out, it's delicious.

-started with new students, and it actually went really well! I had a game made up where they have to describe the pictures on the board, and then the rest of the class has to guess which picture they're describing. Oh! And I did Norman Rockwell pictures to insert a bit of American cultures. So, I think it went really well. And I gave out points, and the winner of the game got an American penny...oooooooo exciting ^^

*Interesting Fact #4: French people make smileys like this: ^^ a lot

-went bowling with a French couple, and tried Billiards, god help me...and I survived

*Interesting Fact #5: French people play foosball ALL the time. And they call it "Baby" (pronounced "BABB-ee") which is short for "Baby Foot" (and since they call "soccer" "football" here, it all makes sense)

-Had a game night with the same French couple and we played a Trivial Pursuit-type game, but it's a game that has the answers online and they're updated everyday, questions like "What was the last film to win the Oscar for 'Best Motion Picture'?" And then you go online to the site, type in the question # and it will give you the answer. So that was challenging (and by way, if you were wondering, the answer was 'Slumdog Millionaire'...I said 'The Wrestler'. Oh! And the highest-paid actor right now is 'Will Smith' and I guessed 'Brad Pitt' (or Weell Smeeff as he is known in this country...on a similar note, Julien and I watched "The Ugly Truth" in French, and he can't help but pronounce it "The Ugly Froof" dear god, I die everytime))

-I gave the French couple some Life Savers to try and they LOVED them, so I sent them home with a roll and a half. The French people I've given American food to, Life Savers, popcorn, peanut butter, Reese's, something else....have loved all of it! Hahaha, one for the States!

So, I can't think of anything else, but there's some interesting stuff that I've done/realized.

Bon week-end à tout le monde!

Bisous!

Meg