Hello! Happy Friday!
Looking for some good French culture stories? If you’re new here, you might have missed these stories that have made their home way back in my blog’s archives. So pour yourself a beverage and cozy up….
5 French culture stories for your Friday reading pleasure:
Vaseline is pretty normal stuff in the USA. They have a whole product line of lotions, etc. Here’s why people in France might look at you strangely when you use Vaseline. But that hasn’t stopped me!
Cheek kisses aren’t THAT difficult. Just when I thought I had it all figured out, I got schooled on my bisous technique. By the way, even a few years later I still dread cheek kisses. Can’t we just hug? Or wave? Or nod? Nope, no we cannot.
Sometimes people say the strangest things. I certainly didn’t expect him to go there. Here’s my awkward pharmacy story for you… when the French pharmacist talks about your vagina. Yes, seriously.
When you’re not used to a country’s culture and customs, you don’t always know what to do. Here’s when a weird guy knocked on my door while we were getting some roof repairs done. What would you have done?
Everyone loves a hearty soup, right? Well, do you want to impress French people? Here’s a soup to NOT make during the holidays. Learn from my mistake!
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Bon week-end tout le monde! Hope you enjoyed my French culture stories from the archives. 😉
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Thanks for the reposting of these stories. I am new to your blog-and new to Rennes! I love reading your stories and I learn something new every time.
LOVE the story about the French pharmacist. Hope those cuts to your vagina have healed nicely!
Hi Amy, thank you! So happy you enjoyed them. Don’t get me started on that weirdo pharmacist!!!! hahaha
He just hits on you!
and in french we have an expression : “Passe moi la vaseline…”
beautiful !!!
Totally think the pharmacist was dead serious and thought he was being helpful telling the foreign woman about all of Homeoplasmine’s many uses. 😉