Today we had a customer conference for work, which I helped out at by manning the booth and proctoring a class on Vybrid. The most notable things about it were that I wasn't much help at the booth since most of the customers only spoke French or else poor English, so I just let my French co-workers take over for the most part. Also while part of the keynote was in English, a lot of it was in French, which of course makes sense, but it was just interesting since all my previous international work experiences were always solely in English since that's the one common language across the world.
We (as in Americans) really are incredibly lucky in that we speak English natively, since if you go to any country in the world and if there's a second language posted anywhere, or someone happens to speak a second language, it's going to be my native tongue. It's why I don't get the people in the US who get so worked up about people speaking other languages. Relax, English isn't going away anytime soon.
And of course there was wine served during lunch, because it's France and all. And it was held in the tennis stadium where the French Open is played, so that was pretty cool. It wasn't on the actual court of course. They have conference rooms and areas to make some money during the non-tennis season too.
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