Chris is here since 2 weeks now. My attention disorder starts to slowly fade away and i get better at concentrating on my work while having him around.
How fun is that to compare all the little something that are making Québec different from Germany and Austria. The Popcorn ready button on my microwave, the typical american refrigerator and oven , the door lock , the weird toilet flushing , the niiiiice weather , and of course, the food – he made it to eat his second poutine tonite , mostly falling asleep on the dinner table after eating the last frie. His blog.
How weird of a karma i do have: we both lived in hamburg at the same time but did not met ’till last december at the Les Blogs conference in Paris. Now i am living the culture shock backwards, seeing him watching french TV shows and not getting it, being surrounded by people speaking another langage and not getting it, spending loads of energy everyday just to be here and record all the new. Been there, done all that – it does sometimes feel like looking at myself in a mirror.
C’est ce qu’on appelle “le choc culturel”… faut le vivre pour le comprendre.
Well, I sure do know what you mean, being french speaking from Québec city parachted in Denmark right now where I’m just starting to understand a sentence here and there on the danish tv! it’s a weird thing to it, to feel that. Most people beleive the cultural shock happens usually if you go to India and I’m sure it’s a million time bigger than mine, but even now, after more than 3 months in Denmark I’m still adapting myself to the language, to waiting to cross the street till the light turns green althought there is no one and to go everywhere by bike!
Anyhow, it’s always comforting to know other people living it!!! To Chris: Mange une poutine pour moi!!!
Laurence