ran into my french teacher Sihame today, we had a coffee and a nice chat. she's forever curious about american culture (she watches all the wrong american movies and takes them literally). our conversations never fail to have an exchange similiar to this one:
-"ees it true dat everyone in ze u.s. 'as ze compooter in ze 'ous?"
-"pas de tout, mais tout les gens, particularment les jeunes a les ordinateurs dans les maisons, oui."
remember when she believed the one about american airline companies spraying newly arrived europeans with disinfectant at the international terminal at JFK? she amuses me. and i rather enjoy dispelling her misconceptions, even better when done in very bad french. she forgives me that. she does not, however, forgive my explanation of "personal space".