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 Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:26 pm
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:42 pm
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 4:05 pm
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Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 10:18 pm
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Actually, reading you, it seems your main problem is you have the wrong approach.
Sounds like when you see a French, you think "hey, that's a French, must be elegant, creative, intelligent, etc., so let's try to be friend!"
If that's really the way you're thinking, you can only fail, and not only with French people. Strangers aren't zoo animals. You just can't be friend with anyone at will, and it's even harder when you don't consider the other as an individual.
Let's take the examples of your teachers.
First, your French teacher. She's a b***h, granted, almost all the French teachers I had were. Why trying to be friendly? That's really not in the French culture, the teacher is there to teach, not to be your friend. Sometimes, some teachers are friendly, but it's either their personality or a compatibility of character. French teachers usually only want their pupils or students to work, not to be friendly. If you have good results and she's still more hostile than neutral, then she's probably just a b***h, that happens, don't bother.
Second, you dance teacher. First of all, I don't really understand why you want a dance teacher to have humor, it isn't his job. You say he's a terrible teacher and never smiles, but did he have any good reason to be happy? Not only such teachers are usually extremely demanding, so you may actually never meet their expectations even with hard work, but it's probably even more annoying for a professional to see his pupils or students make some jokes when they don't even manage to get results. It's a discipline, you should never be distracted.
About your friend, well she was maybe elitist, maybe not. French people who live out of France usually tend to be (including your teachers), they seem to believe getting out of this country is a social achievement. I'm not sure of how other people see it, but to me, evaluating people's strengths and weaknesses doesn't mean you despise them, and doing the opposite is probably considered hypocritical.
You wrote "she showed a big snotty attitude towards the rest of my friends and I didn't like that at all", did you tell her?
Well, anyway, about your question about etiquette and such, it's hard to answer without knowing your own habits and manners.
Do you have any idea of what you could have done to displease the people you met?
At least, for teachers, now you know. Teachers in and from France aren't friends, and they aren't there to hear your jokes.
The cultural gap is huge, don't underestimate it.
Quote: the stereotype is that everyone has a beaver on his head and leave in a wood house
Et aussi que vous mangez de l'orignal aux bleuets en écoutant Céline Dion après avoir coupé des arbres à la hâche dans vos chemises rouges et noires à carreaux en criant "tabarnac" toutes les deux minutes. Le plus grand mystère pour nous, c'est votre connexion internet, depuis quand ça se fait par pigeons voyageurs ? xd
Faut pas mal le prendre, c'est juste pour vous taquiner rofl
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 6:03 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:44 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:45 am
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:36 am
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:40 am
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