This weekend, my host family's daugter(L) came to visit with her husband(B) and two children. I wasn't expecting them to arrive until Saturday but their car was sitting in the drive when I returned late Friday night. I ran into the daugther and caught a glimpse of her husband when I got up in the morning. Later that day I found this little fella in my bed:


List of things learned continued:
14. I don't know how I left this out but you usually have to pay for public bathrooms, 20 centimes. If you're a lady this is not worth it at all, unless you are about to pee all over yourself but even then I am not sure. The toilettes, if you can even call them that are awful.
15. I haven't really found that many inexpensive things besides bread. Make up, even our cheap brands are outrageous, a tube of rimmel mascara will run you about 15 euros.
16. When receiving change the cashier doesn't want to touch you! haha, they usually want to place the change down on the counter and let you struggle to pick it up instead of placing it in your hand. I'm not sure what this is about because I know those centimes have more germs than I do.
17. I haven't learned what french cheeses I like besides the ones I ate in the states. All the types I've tried have been unsatisfactory or smelled like a toilet bowl.
18. The French should learn how to use goat cheese (chevre) and sometimes mustard(spicy brown) in moderation.
19. Sauce blanche is ranch, and all the Kebab sellers think it is the best thing ever.
20. A majority of the food here is sweet or sweeter than what we have in U.S. Ketchup is one, toothpaste?, soda, chips and fries are less salty. Vending machines contain two types of chips the rest is candy, cookies, brownies, pastries, etc.
21. Valentine's day is not as commercialized as it is in America.
you are totally right about the toothpaste. it's almost cupcake icing.
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