Frozen

Today was our office Christmas party. We went to a crepe resturant, and most everyone in the office showed up which is pretty unique since as it's a sales office, a lot of them are travelling and out of the office very frequently. We took up the entire resturant, and in true France fashion, we only had a single waiter for the 45 of us. It actually worked out fairly well though since we just passed the bottles of water between us and stacked up our own plates. The food didn't all come out at the same time, but close enough I suppose.

I also found out there's an office photography contest, so I'm trying to figure out which of my photos to enter. There's Christmas, Winter, and Action categories. And speaking of photography, I bought myself a new Canon 70D to replace my 8 year old 20D. I'm most excited about the higher ISO quality, and the video capabilities since there's been many a time I wish I could take a good video of what I'm seeing since sometimes videos just aren't enough.

After getting home, we went to go see Frozen (aka La Reine des neiges - The Snow Queen - as it's called in France) since we're planning on visiting Disneyland again this weekend. It was a bit difficult to find a theater that only subtitled it, since most of them dubbed it over, I assume to make it easier for French children to follow along. It was really good, and I'd recommend it! 

Though once again I found it very interesting to see how words are translated into French and all the nuance lost. For instance, "Look out!", "Watch out!", "Whoa!", "Check this out!", "Look at that!" are just translated to a single word in French: "Attention!". I'm not sure if it's the lack of nuance in French translations, or just English has a much more verbose vocabulary, but it makes me wonder about all the French films I love that I only know via subtitles (aka Amelie).