Anybody fancy a 4 year vacation?

[tuigirl]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

Same here, I dream of fleeing to France like Johnny Depp

Having lived there for 15 years, let me just say that after all that time, the French still made me feel like I was an alien from outer space...esp when I spoke English to my kids...nope been there, done that..good luck to JD though.

[tynan88]

Lux where in Australia are you from?

Tynan

[tuigirl]

Haha Lux...I'm from the windy city..actually used to live just north of where you are now..Yeppoon ring a bell? Oh yes, very warm and humid....
Strand..another movie with even better NZ scenery than LOTR..Ron Howard saw good sense to make "Willow" there, great fairy story too and a slim Val Kilmer (with hair extensions) to match
Hehe..not forgetting, "The Last Samurai" either, it always makes me laugh pretending that flax bushes grow in Japan.....

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by tuigirl

Having lived there for 15 years, let me just say that after all that time, the French still made me feel like I was an alien from outer space...esp when I spoke English to my kids...nope been there, done that..good luck to JD though.

Good to know. A friend of mine went there and she said she was pointed at on the street and yelled "AMERICANS" to and had to run. I don't know what that was all about. She said she was drinking a Coke and wearing sneakers, I guess that those 2 behaviors are a dead giveaway.

[tuigirl]

Suze...the French seemed to got through an Anti- American phase at some point a few years ago, even though they have accepted McDonalds and the like(EuroDisney etc)they went on this anti use of most English/American words in everyday language, including a sort of ban on how many Eng/Am songs to play on the radio (when I left, it was something like every 3rd one had to be French).I hope JD can keep his identity and not turn into a Frenchman..it's not easy, when they look at you the way they do...don't get me wrong, there are some nice French (apologies to any FR ledgies) who accept you as you are, whatever nationality, but they are a minority, in my opinion..