Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Mexican food (!!!), Sirens, and Becoming a Parisian

I finally found a good mexican restaurant (read: my friend found it and brought me there and of course with my terrible sense of direction I'll probably never be able to get back there ha ha)! I really miss mexican food here, so I was super excited to go there for lunch yesterday. French food is good, but you can only eat so many crepes and bagettes before you need to switch it up. I had an awesome vegetarian burrito and guacamole! Sooo good! I'll definitely be going back! I forgot to take a picture of the restaurant or of my food (blog fail), but I did get a picture of the awesome chandelier...albeit not super classy.



Random comment: The first Wednesday of each month at noon there is a test of the emergency alert system for the city (at least as far as I've gathered). Today (March 2nd) and last month my politics class was interrupted by a siren at 12pm and 12:10pm. Maybe some cities in the US do this, but not where I live. It surprised me, but it's probably a good idea.

Tonight I went to see a play called "How to Become a Parisian in One Hour" with my Internship Seminar class. I was expecting it to be kind of lame, but it was actually pretty funny. It's a one man show in English where the guy talks about mostly French/American stereotypes. A lot of what he said was definitely true and I really enjoyed the show, although it was a little past my bedtime...sleepy.

More bad translations....
Really...?

Sounds terrible in English

An actual email I received..

"Mademoiselle,

I don't remember if you speak french. I am writing in english though. I
received the document "achat de timbre". Thank you for zat.

Cordialement"

"Zat" really?...Just write in French

Sorry for a kind of lame post this time...busy week. I promise to be more exciting next week ha ha!

1 comment:

  1. Ok two things- if that chandelier is made out of bottles of alcohol then that's the coolest thing ever. Also, I saw how to become parisian in one hour too and I thought it was funny, and we got to meet the guy after!

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