Back in Paris... - Blogabond

So as you can tell I am back in Paris hence the writing on this... I wanted to keep an accurate log of the travels so this stop had to be made.
It has been raining for 2 days now... I am a little fed up with the rain... its hard to go and see things when it is pouring outside, I guess I have my own little hurricane Dean over here... We walk everywhere and we have ot do it in the rain its not cool when we have to go to the grocery store and then tromp home in the flooding streets lol... Just imagine all of the bags you get next time at the grocery and then imagine having to walk 20 or so blocks with them in your hands... Its unreal no wonder why everything is in such small portions...

We went to a dinner party at one of Agathe's friends house... She is in film school and speaks English very well... Its unreal how all of her friends feel like they don't speak English well but it is almost perfect... The royalty was not at the party but the others were very very intelligent... asking about my views on stem cell research, gun laws in the US, Hillary and obama, voting stats in the US, religion differences, why I like GWBush, smoking laws in LA, and drinking laws in the US.... That is all I can remember now that we spoke about but keep in mind this is ALL in English, they preferred to speak in English to practice... One of the best speakers who is 24 said he learned English slang and other words we use from playing vidio games online where you have a live connection to other players and you speak and also from watching TV shows in english like law and order and friends... How cool is that? I could not even begin to watch French TV and start to speak... It was good to have intellectual conversation with young adults because that rarely happens in the us... I tried to explain that we do not have dinner parties we have keg parties but it was difficult.. lol

Some of the Group at the Dinner Party

I learned some fun phrases... like if you are the one to pour the last of the wine bottle the phrase is " get married or kill yourself" in one year lol... Also when you cheers someone you ahve to look them in the eye or it is bad luck and you must cheers everyone... not like us lazy people from across the room... the other fun thing is you ahve to do the 2 kisses on both cheeks to EVERYONE... it took about 20 min to do it at the party because there were about 20 people there... wow again I could not imagine... The students at the party said they admire me for being so different from other Americans because I have an opinion and I also know when to say it and when not to, that is the French peoples biggest problem with American students...

After the party the metro was closed at 2am so we had to call a taxi and wait in the rain it was fun because the taxi that picked us up was a Bently... never in the US you almost need to clorox your body after a taxi in the US... this was wonderful but it should have been after the 40$ price...

I will be in the south for the weekend doing the vineyard harvest so i will update with pictures and stories after I return on Monday...

This is of before the rain started I LOVE this picture...

Eiffel Tower glittering

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daniellebachan on August 22, 2007 from Paris, France

from the travel blog: FRANCE/Europe 2007

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