To close out a year of near-wall-to-wall France, here are some important lessons I've gleaned as a student of life here:
-a university degree with honors is marked "assez bien," which means "good enough"
-one browses the ornaments and local honey of a small-town Christmas market to the classic holiday melodies "Wake Me Up Before You Go-go," "Take On Me," and "Maneater"
-proposing the addition of mustard to a ham sandwich elicits disbelieving laughter
-mimes are not automatically considered ridiculous
-flossing is not a thing
I saw a beautifully produced play about a plucky lad turned WWI pilot, who returns wounded and depressed but is joyously embraced and inspired to remake his life by his fiancé, mimed.
When they say they're going camping, they mean they rent a tiny cabin next to seventy other tiny cabins, next to a restaurant.
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