Happy Fish of April Everyone. Or April Fool's Day.
France's favorite prank today, or so I'm told, is to draw a fish on a piece of paper, attach it to an unwitting victim's back, and say poisson d'avril. This seems to be a much more gentle version of "Kick Me".
This weekend, plans for April Vacation (officially, our Easter holiday) settled into order. Unfortunately after these two weeks, the French school system only grants the occassional long weekend until June 30th. It's going to be a long two months. Don't feel too sorry for me.
Here is the plan:
Torino, Nice, Arles, Avignon, Carcassonne, Lyon and Geneva.
While we're in Geneva, I'm hoping to see some Swiss Spaghetti Farmers. If things go well, we will return to Paris in time for Aggie Muster.
Hopefully this week, the lessons on Easter stop. My teachers encourage me to teach the kids about holiday practices, including egg rolling. This is a comical myth, perpetuated by Oxford University Press and the French Education system, that British families dye eggs, then head for the hills to see who can roll their egg downhill fastest and farthest. After extensive polling, I've found no English person has ever heard of this, but 6 out of 6 French English teachers have.
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Haha, the fish thing may be meaner than thought. Guillame told me that when someone is really ugly you say "Il est un thon" (he's a tuna, obviously)... I'd give you at least an angelfish..... awww....
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