Sunday, 13 March 2011

The good weather is affecting me

Disclaimer:  I thought I posted this months ago

I really do love French people, they just take awhile to get used.  They are hard to open up, but once you're accepted it's great.  I love that they eat 5 course meals like it ain't no thing.  I love how they sit at outdoor cafés, sipping bitter espresso and chain smoking cigarettes.  Actually, I don't really like the cigarette part, but it is clearly an integral part of them.  I love that their food isn't all high-fructose corn syrup and processed yet and that they take pride in the fine and somewhat hedonistic things in life, food wine art, love.  I love that they take pride in knowledge and intelligence, and don't condone and cater to stupidity and ignorance.  Although that is changing.  The fucking McDonald's effect.  I love their language and I love that I understand it.  I hate that I struggle to speak it.  I love their fucking Eiffel Tower, what the fuck is that?!  I love that they take the time to enjoy living.  Work does not define them and does not rule their lives, living does.  I am clearly generalizing, but how else am I supposed to express the differences?

Someone once told me that French people are like coconuts and Americans are like peaches.  That makes the French hard on the outside, but soft in the center.  I concur.

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