Ways that living in Paris isn't like vacationing here: Having to decipher a car's user manual in French in order to figure out how to change the time in the car. The dashboard clock's been wrong for the last week and a half since the time change. I did get it all figured out, but the challenge started when just trying to figure out which word to lookup in the glossary:
This week is also a short 2 day week in Paris since I'm heading to our Czech Republic offices on Wednesday.
So far both Chinese/Asian places we've tried here haven't been that good, which is disappointing. It just tastes really off, and even though there are a number of Asian immigrants, maybe it's just difficulty to find the right spices and/or changing it for the French palate. But I noticed my French is slowly improving as I could understand when he asked me if I wanted it heated, if I wanted more rice, and what type of fillings (chicken, beef, or pork) were in the egg rolls.
Also we discovered that Sweet Potatoes are in the "exotic fruits and vegetables" section of the grocery store. They are not next to the normal potatoes (pomme de terre, literally "apple of earth", which is a cool name for potatoes I think).
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