<Monsieur Fraisair>

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Les Souffles:deux

Favorites

Favorite Jazz club in Paris:
Le Caveau des Oubliettes

Favorite way to mess with the French:
Buy really good bread and put “beurre des cacahuettes” all over it. When they see me do that they just don’t know what to do!

Favorite social faux pas
Apparently prostitution jokes don’t go over well here

Favorite way I almost died
Late for concert + wobbly and heavy public bike + weird French traffic lanes + aggressive French drivers + wet tramway tracks + suddenly oncoming tram

Favorite bridge in Paris
Pont St. Louis

Favorite building in Lyon
Oooo tough call here. For now, it is between the ultra modern Opera House, “the toaster” as Lindsey calls it, and the Hotel de Ville. Luckily they are right across from each other.

Favorite method of transportation
Metro Ligne D – unmanned subway cars

Favorite English teaching moment
Explaining Garfield Comics

Favorite part of French class
The hot chocolate, definitely the hot chocolate

Favorite language mishap
The pronunciations of “sent” a conjugation of “sentir,” to smell, and “sein,” women’s breast, are easy to mix up. You can imagine the myriad ways that could cause problems….

Favorite way to de-stress
A Grimbergen beer and either the English comedy Black Books or a Marx Bros movie. That, or a walk around Vieux Lyon and the Roman Ruins