"I don't know why you wouldn't just RUN AWAY as FAST AS YOU CAN."
" 'YOU SPEAK ENGLISH!!!' "
"Is that what France is known for, that pasty cheese stuff?"
"100 accordian songs, what more could you ask for?!" font face="Arial" font color=#990000 font size=-3>---all from Jenny, 5/24/03
May 25, 2003
time about 10 am feeling confused! and amused reading oh no, I finished my great book! I'm lost... wearing LEIs, $3 CR shirt, towel on head music DOS ready for some breakfast next hopefully eat
OH GOD. Fools that we are we thought it might be nice to come here to France (Montpellier to be exact) for a weekend. "Fools?" you may ask. "Why fools? France is after all a fair enough country." Well OK this is why we are fools - between teh three of us, we speak these few French phrases/words (note that I cannot spell them correctly:
"Zhuh ma pehl..." (my name is, this will get us NOWHERE)
See? Absolutely NOTHING useful. Damn. And tonight we have to find another hotel as this one is full, we are screwed. And of course Anna, whom we partially came here to see, is of no help at all and in addition seems to have no interest in seeing us. Bah. I should have known; she IS from the good old days of SAASsy.
But it's fun, because we are definitely in too deep, not knowing the language/customs an all, and it's amusing in this way. The city so far quite nice, with a gorgeous centre among other things. The train ride brought us along the Meditteranean coast, so lovely, and it is charming to see another country. I do think though that I prefer the fast moves of Spain.
So basically wish us luck. This'll be interesting...
---Lexi
Je'mala La Tette (Or However It's Spelled!)
"eau" (water, we learned this yesterday)
"bo bun" (thanks to Michael Kelly)
"Je'mala la tette/estomage" (I have a head/stomache ache, from 6th grade)
"oh se domage!" ("what a pity!")
"Voulez vou couche avec moi?" ("Will you sleep with me", I know, I have the horrible ability to say this phrase in four languages, please know that I don't use it)