Tales of my time as an English language assistant in France!

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Funniest trip moments/quotes

Nicole: Well, what would you say to a girl if you wanted to romance her?
Ben: Your hair looks f*cking cool.

Nicole, in mid-conversation with newfound French friend, Laurent, turning to Agnes and chatting to her in French... despite the fact that Agnes doesn't speak French.

"Okay, Disneyland on speed!" (IE we didn't get up early enough and we now have to be focussed to get the most out of it).

Nicole getting almost desperate enough to push small children out of the way to get a photo with Disney characters.

Anything that happened in the couple of hours after we drank the champagne at Moulin Rouge. C'est féerique! But especially when Nicole and Agnes checked their flight time and found out it was at about 3pm, not 11am... they therefore pretty much had an extra day in Paris, and hadn't even realised!

Flirtatious waiter at the beach in Montpellier, who had worked out that I was an English speaker: (Across the restaurant as we left) "Would you like to try a French kiss?"

Falls at the ice-skating rink. I think the best one was one of Sabrina's friends, Abou, who stumbled, recovered, grabbed the side of the rink, yet still somehow ended up on his bum on the ice!

Doing Alicia Keys' Fallin' at Xmas market karaoke. I was by myself, and I like karaoke... I thought "I'm gonna walk out of this room and never see these people again. What the heck. I'll do it."

Trying to learn to 'zouk' and realising very quickly that Sabrina had fairly accurately described the dance: "You have to be really close to each other. It pretty much looks like you're having sex on the dancefloor!"

After our NYE night clubbing, Abou insisting on getting Sabrina to tell him how to say everything in English... very slow conversations!

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