After finally getting sort
of comfortable speaking French again I realized it was all pointless.
All you have to learn are the first letters of every word. They sure
love their abbreviations over here. The pride the French take in
their system of abreviations can be seen when the whole world agrees on
one. AIDS in France: SIDA! Not to be confused with the famous
football player Zidane or the Disney hero Simba, but overall
definitely not as scary sounding as AIDS.
The most remarkable
sentence I heard so far when asking for directions to avenue Victor
Hugo.
“Well you just take the
RER B till CLH, switch there to the A. Then you get of at CDGE and
you're basically there”
WTF? It all makes perfect
sense once you get that RER stands for Réseau Express Régional
(it's basically the same as the metro but faster and goes further
into the suburbs), CLH is short for Châtelet les Halles, a gigantic
metro station/ shopping mall/ hobo hangout, and CDGE means Charles de
Gaulles Étoile, the station right next to my destination. Just way
too complicated.
So trying to be all casual
you suggest BDSM, but apparently that is not a valid abbreviation for
the Boulevard St.Michel. LOL
Instead of greetings today I just simply want to say: YOLO!
The square was first named after his younger brother Oliver till he became a terrible football TV-expert. Afterwards they named it after his older brother Dominique-Strauss but that didn't go well either. So after all they choose the middle one: Albert!
The two little signs say: "Water on all floors" and "Gas on all floors"
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