1/4th of a year

Okay, I promised an here it is. A list with 10 really stupid questions about the United States and my 100% ironic and sarcastic answer (Usually I told them how it really is afterwards ).

1. Are all Americans fat?

2. Do Americans usually eat McDonalds?

3. Is an American Family like the Simpsons?

4. How many times did you actually go to McDonald’s?

5. Is George W. Bush still President of the US?

6. Do the Americans always pray before they start school?

7. Is it true that an average American watches about 10 hours TV a day?

8. Do all African American play Basketball.

9. Do all people in the States like Obama.

10. Do all American speak English?

Again tell me your favorite and more if someone else asked you a stupid question about the States.

Today in my English class for some reason we got to the subject how to say “I am going to the bathroom”. A friend of mine said he would say “I am going to take a number 2″ my teacher said it wouldn’t be very polite and “I am going on the toilet” would be to more proper way to say it. After that I shared a story: Once I asked an old lady where the toilet was. She totally shocked answered, that a young polite boy never ever asks for the toilet, he would ask for the bath- or restroom. After telling this, my teacher threw his hands in the air and says:

“All Americans are hypocrites!”

and he added America makes movies like American Pie but don’t say toilet. How ironic! =D You need to understand the sarcasm and irony of my teacher at this point. So don’t feel to offended. I would call it cultural difference

PS: Let me know how you would say “I am going to the bathroom”!

I shouldn’t have done it. I knew it was going to be really annoying but for some reason I had to show them. I had learnt it during a american history class and I bothered all my friends with it. I remember walking through the hall way and wet all my friends who where passing by. Yeah I showed them the whole hole in the cap of a bottle. For those who have no idea what I mean; It is easy! You take some think sharp (like a pair of scissors) and put a very little whole hole in the cap. Now when the bottle is filled with water you can splash water at every person. It’s really fun you should try it.

Anyways I showed my friends this in French class. And after 10 minutes we had about four bottles which had the ability to splash water around. You can imagine. The teacher didn’t quiet like it. As a result we have a test this thursday and I think our teacher hates water now.

For me this means I have to study French again and as some of you know, the year in Chicago wasn’t really a French supportive year. Short: I forgot almost all of it. It is even worse than I thought. When I try to study vocabulary the words are always coming in English. It is like my French brain part has been overwritten with American English. Now that I am studying French again I hope it won’t happened the same thing just the other way around. But I honestly I don’t think it will. I already open up a new part of my brain and it’s open spaced for much new language knowledge. I called it the new “French brainstorm”.

For supporting my French skills I think I will start to watch some nice French movies. (Are there any? please tell me ) And I will keep my English with doing this blog and try to speak english when ever I can.

So finally if you don’t understand something what I am writing please tell me. It’s not because I have a whole hole like the bottle, it is because it could be that the old French brain part tries to mix up with the good old american english!