An unfortunate consequence of my French studies is that I am now unable to complete a sentence in Spanish, a language I studied for 9 years. What is encore worse (as evidenced by my unconventional use of the word "encore") is that my English has been completely weirdified. For example, the other day I told my mom, "We're having a grill tonight." (which still sounds perfectly normal to me) But she was like, "You're what?" "We're having a gr...uh, a BBQ." Another expression that is used quite naturally and regularly among the expats here is to say something happened "by hazard," meaning "by chance." I enjoy the fact that this is rendered encore funnier due to its similarity to "bio-hazard." So now I can say "It was a bio-hazard" instead of "It was an accident"! Voila, a new slang expression is born!
Domestic Animal of the Day: Jane, just because she's my cat and she's cool because she has curly hair and I miss her and the cats here aren't friendly.
Ethnic Identity of the day: Swiss German--gotta love these folks! There are so many here learning French and they've got the greatest accents. Plus they're super cool because they can understand everything German people say but the Germans can't understand them! Very stealth. If you've got satellite you've gotta check to see if you can get any of the Swiss German music programs. They call it "country" but this ain't no Toby Keith. It's like Heidi meets the 21st century. You never know when they're going to bust out a yodel.
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