Funny things about Paris

I have been meaning to write this post for about a hundred years now but just have not. And i have many many that i should write and will get to i promise. As of friday, I am work free for a bit and will try do blog posts from this term in Paris then.

But...while i procrastinate some time away from reading about sustainable development and the environment, I will write about some funny things I have noticed about Paris so far.

1) Bedrooms NEVER have a roof light. They only ever have side-lamps. Not even lights attached to the wall, but side-lamps you have to put in. It is tres bizaar. Perhaps it is to aid the ambiance for the bedroom.....

2) Bathrooms are often for men and women; it is rare to have single-sex bathrooms. Perhaps this is to promote the bedroom action....

3) Often lights in bathrooms are timed- they go on when you open the door and off after a specific time period. So if you are chilling in the loo, it will go dark after a while. This one i think is to preserve electricity, but could be for the other thing too...

4) You cannot get filter coffee in a normal size coffee cup; you can get "cafe" aka. espresso in a tiny cup, "cafe lait", cafe latter but still in a 250ml cup MAX, "cappuccino" but in a small cup and only 'weaklings' drink this after 10am! At Sciences Po, you get coffee out of a vending machine for 50c, so i usually buy about ten a day which makes up like one normal cup of coffee! It is VERY ANNOYING!

5) Homeless people always have dogs and suitcases. It is like they are just moving from spot to spot with their louise vutton rolly bag and beautifully groomed dog...

6) Everything has eggs on it! Even pizza! Not little egg bits but somma a fried egg blomp on the pizza. If you do not like eggs, like i do not, this becomes a bit of an issue!

Those are indeed the main things i can think of right now.

Besides the obvious, every one smokes, no one eats, no one exercises...it is a miracle they are alive past 30! And there are no real problems like crime. Apparently "up north" is dangerous at night but i think that means there are homeless people there and not real crime. The only real issue people have is the environment which is why there are five bins for everything everywhere and the light thing.

Life up in the first world is pretty easy as far as life goes.
Mais, c'est tres bizaar!