Monday, January 5, 2015

Paris has free wifi

Hanging out in Paris waiting for my next flight (a short 1hour trip to Rennes Airport) and using the wifi to send an update.  It's 1:30am my time and I didn't sleep a bit on the 7.5hour flight over here...so that's a bummer.  Good news is I caught up on some movies I'd been meaning to watch!

Here is a general idea of how my French is working so far: I can grab the beginning of every sentence and maybe one vocab word in-between.  So sometimes I know what the sentence is about but I have  no idea what exactly was said (i.e. I hear, "Bonjour, french french french cheval french french"..."Okay...he said cheval...that means horse... is he calling me a horse? Does he see a horse nearby? Are we having horse in today's meal?..." etc.)

This actually worked out for me when going through security and I caught the world for "belt" -- I proudly lifted my shirt and displayed to the man that I was not wearing a belt.  I did not consider that if I was wrong I was presenting a possibly lewd gesture.  Oh well, c'est la vie. 

3 comments:

  1. Heard you arrived safely. Can't wait to read how it's going. Have fun

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  2. I am dying LOLing right now. Love you!

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  3. Haha- I'm so glad Lynds!! Love and miss you

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