So without further adieu:
1. If you learned to speak french in Quebec and plan to travel to France, be prepared for people not to understand alot of the words and phrases you use...Weekend, peanut, bicycle and a ton of other words are all different.
2. If you ask to use the "salle de bain" in France, you will look like an idiot. In France (and in most of Europe) the washroom and the toilet are two different rooms. The washroom has a sink, bathtub, etc. and the toilet has...you guessed it, a toilet. So, one again, forget your Quebec french and ask for "la toilette", and enjoy the smelly privacy of a enclosed space to poop in.
3. The French don't eat until at least 8pm, after dinner drinks don't start until at least 10pm, and if you are actually going out somewhere...don't show up before midnight. That means that by the time they are having dessert, Juls is in her jammies and half asleep on the couch.
4. The french watch a ton of American movies, and they very rarely dub them. Instead they usually just add subtitles. They inexplicably almost always change the name of the movie though, and it's usually still in English. For example, "The Hangover" in France is, "Very Bad Trip" (and not very bad trip in French...the actual English words "Very Bad Trip"). Also, "The Other Guys" is "Very Bad Cops"...sensing a trend here? Anyway, this is infinitely amusing.
5. The French are only interested in/want to talk about 3 things: food, sex and politics (in that order). Be prepared...at least know who the president is, what you are eating, and your favorite position.
That's it for now, but I will continue this series in the weeks and months to come.
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