"But what do you DO in Paris?"

And if any of you are curious as to what I've actually been up to in France outside of cultural musings, here are three bizarre things that have happened to me in the past week:

1) I was on French National television.

2) My host mom and two of the four sisters dressed up as "Africans" and ran around the house chanting in costume as a surprise for my host dad's birthday (brown face paint and afros included, I kid you not, my blond, European host mom looked like Scary Spice). Being PC doesn't really exist in France, évidemment, but we already knew this.

3) An awkward run-in with a rabbit.


I won't bore you with the details now, but ask if you're curious and you might get a story. You might all get one anyway. More updates on life in Paris later.