Ultimate mistakes and cultural mishaps
How many of you started out just like myself..... I considered myself totally culturally perfect, a culturally sensitive beast poised to integrate smoothly into my new chosen country, that of my husband ( at that time, I might add!!!). I would surround myself in things french. I would NEVER become a blind and exclusive"ex pat", would NEVER hang out with anglophones. I was in for the total emmersion package. I would surround myself with witty french girlfriends with whom I would go shopping, lunching, wine-ing and coffee-ing....yes we would all hang out together speaking fab french, sharing the trials of our young childrens' lives, swap recipes, bitch eternally about our husbands,exchange professional tips, go on family holidays....wrong WRONG WRONG! I had totally set myself up for major misunderstanding and mishap!! I have to clarify that I DO have french friends and they are just wonderful ( of course they are...I CHOSE THEM!!) but I had made the ultimate mistake...