One week and I'll be in France! I've been spending my days watching Audrey Tautou movies, listening to Edith Piaf, and updating my cheat sheet with useful words (it seems a real lapse in my french education that I've never been taught the word for spoon). How am I supposed to eat my glace de chocolat without a cuillère!) My obsession with France and everything french has and always will annoy the hell out of my family. My stepfather so poignantly calls the french "frogs" and cannot for the life of him understand why I would ever want to spend 4 months in a country that despises everything American.
Ironically enough, I'm watching An Education at the moment. A film I've never seen before about a young innocent British girl who falls for an older man. She is equally as obsessed with everything Français as I am. Is this how annoying I am? Every other word in her sentences are french, snobbishly placed there to make her friends think shes cultured. What she really doesn't know is that her pronunciation is atrocious...well that really was me sounding snobby wasn't it.
Any-who, in the attempts to prepare for my vie en rose I've made myself extremely sick to the stomach. I can't stop thinking about worst case scenarios, missing my plane, getting lost on the metro. AH, this girl in this film just said that's "beaucoup trop chere pour moi" and the woman she said it to completely chastised her. Excuse my side note, but its irritating. I've got to make a conscious effort to only speak in English around people who speak English and attempt to speak french around my soon to be french friends.
Well I've rambled long enough, I hope this rant didn't make you not want to read my blog about my trip. I'll be in Grenoble, France for four months and if you like reading amusing anecdotes about foreign cultures here's the place! I'm hoping to do some traveling around Europe and the countries bordering France. Wish me luck on my travels, I'll post from Paris when I make it there!
Kayla, Your a little crazy haha. Definitely keep up the positive mentality though and your going to have a great time over here. Good Luck with the Flight, don't lose your boarding pass, Sam almost did..
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you are there and the flight is past history. One request, when you use those beautiful french words in your blog, would you give the translation for us uncultured peeps over here in the USA? I would love to learn a bit of French myself...you never know, I might actually remember a word or two.
ReplyDeleteAunt Diane...ok, so I never use the Aunt, but this is a good time to start don't you think?