Three French children’s songs brought to you by … Petit Prince! Click here to hear him sing: Petit Prince Petit Poisson (and please don’t kill me, but you have to click the link a second time when it shows the attachment page in order to hear it, and then you have to back-click twice to get back to the post… Read More
This past Wednesday I took my driving test for the third time. If you want to know the horrors, you can read my post « Drive Me to the Looney Bin ,» although you don’t even need to bother with the post; the title says it all. I was crispé, as they say in French (crees-pay) and it means a ball… Read More
Are you planning to visit France? Eat in a French restaurant? Meet your future French in-laws? There is a certain cheese etiquette that must be followed. Let’s say you’re going to host a dinner with French cuisine; you’ll want to make sure you start with the proper bread. In the absence of baguettes available, go for the crustiest bread you… Read More
In Luxemburg there is a national monument representing La France. It’s a monument that depicts workers on strike. Anyone who lives here, and indeed anyone who chooses to visit on an inauspicious occasion can testify that going on strike is the inherent right and responsibility of the French. The desire to strike beats passionately in the chest of every frenchman… Read More
Alternative Title: Just Kill Me Now When I moved to France, I didn’t know that getting a driver’s license would become the bane of my existence. Had I known, I would have set up temporary residence in PA, which is a transferrable state. (There are a bunch of states that transfer to a French driving license and a lot of… Read More
After some wild and, somewhat last minute preparation (I had to teach two English classes that morning), we were finally ready for Sabrina’s baby shower. I had so much fun decorating, especially knowing that whatever I did would be so foreign to the French culture, she would be blown away by it. I would have been much more trepidatious having… Read More
