I never take access to bathrooms for granted in France.
I never take access to bathrooms for granted in France.
There are a few cultural aspects of life in Canada that I adopted without being entirely comfortable with them.
Driving across France from north to south takes about ten hours.
Here are a few examples of tiny weird differences between France and North America.
Dating is so heavily codified you’d need The Da Vinci Code’s symbologist to understand all the subtleties.
Here are 5 things you wouldn’t believe are banned or illegal in Canada!
I never get tired of small cultural differences—I even have a blog tag dedicated to them!
My 19-year-old brother and my mom came to visit us for three weeks in July.
Driving rules are different. You spend hours looking for household products at your supermarket. You are really not sure what the cashier is saying when he is asking if you have a dime.
I entered France with my Canadian passport and I decided to become a woman with a mission. I was going to find out if French were rude.
It’s only when I travel to France that I realize how “Canadian” I've become.
As a French, I have being taught that bathroom humour is a low form of humour. But I cannot hold it any longer (pun intended) – I’m Canadian now, and if I want to write an article about bathrooms...
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I fought hard with my parents for the right to put make-up on when I was in my very early teens and I intended to use that right fully. Pretty much all of my friends wore make-up (including some...
If you really want to offend a French man, don’t ask him if you can see his wife naked – there is always the risk you will end up in one of Paris’ seedy swinging clubs. Instead, just ask him how much...
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On March 4, I accomplished my duty as a new Canadian citizen—I voted for the first time in Canada.
In France, the saying goes that “le client est roi”. But in fact, the customer is anything but a king: at best he is an idiot, a minor annoyance in your day. As this funny article on “How to play the...
Everybody knows that Canadians are peaceful and polite people. Yet, I noticed my fellow citizens can be quite annoyed by a few things... that are Canadian in essence. Disclaimer: this post is to be...
Some of my core values were challenged at one point or another after I moved to Canada. I had to reconsider what I had been taught as a French. What I had blindly believed in for all the years I...
The scale in the corner of the kitchen was taunting me, and one morning, I finally climbed on it. I was just curious, I guess. Barely awake, my eyes still out-of-focus, I blinked several times...