Culture

=NOTES ON FRENCH CULTURE!=

==When french teens refer to their friends they call them, **un ami,** (boy) or **un amie,** (girl). More commonly they use **une copain** or **une copine,** but be careful useing these terms because you could be mistaken for sayin my girlfriend, (**ma copine**) or my boyfriend (**mon copain**) as oppose to saying my friend thats a boy or my friend thats a girl.==

**French families:**
==French families usually live around the same region, so french teens see their grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins fairly often. Even if the family doesn't live very close french families find various reasons to get together, such as birthdays, weekend visits, summer, vacations, and of coarse the more special occasions like holidays weddings and anniversaries**.**==

==Usually french teens eat at home with their familie for their main meals, but on weekends they might stop by a café or restaurant to eat out with friends. They like to eat the same types of foods as we do, for example; hot dogs, hamburgers, or pizza in restaurants, but when at the café the will have something more along the lines of a croissant, ice cream, sandwich, or steak & fries **(un steak-frites)**.==

At cafés the teens not only eat and drink, but gather their to sit, gosip, and watch people go bye.
==When you do order something to eat or drink, when you get the bill 15% service charge is already included in the check. However most people also leave some small change behind as an extra tip if you had a good server.==

==The money they use in france comes from Europe (European money) and is used in twelve European countries; France, Germany, Ireland, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Finland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Neverlands. Their money looks way different than ours, it comes in 15 different sizes and colors. Also the money in france is referred to as euro.==

==Classes in France are similar to ones we have like, histoire, sciences, maths, and géographie. Also like us they have foreign languages, but they have *__11__//*// languages to chose from! They are; **Latin, German, Grec, Allemand, Anglais, Arabe, Espanol, Hébreu, Italien, Portugais and Russ.**== ==In France you spend the most time in the classes you need for college. So say you want to go to college to be an accountant, you would spend maybe two and a half hours in a math class and only one hour in a science class.==

==In france ther is no such thing as school buses. They believe since your school education is free then it should be up to you or your parents to ge you there. Many french teens take the public bus or walk.==

==For lunch the students are servied nice home cooked meals served on you guessed it REAL PLATES! You also have the choice of eating at school or going home possibly stoping by a café to eat depending on how far away you live from the school, and you are given an hour to eat, But you are expected to be back at school on time.==

==French shcools do not have school related sports teams they like to focus more tward education. This migh be a little hard to grasp since Cameron high school is so involved with all their sports, i might even go as far as saying our school pretty much revolves around sports. But since they don't do school sports, they have Wednesday afternoons off, and that gives them plenty of time to practice. Not very much time after a regular school day though, because the usually get home around 5:00 or 5:30 depending on how they get home.==

**__French parties__**
==Une boum is a party that involves middle schoolers. When a bunch of kids gather at someones house (parents present, but not seen) there are snacks like finger s andwiches to crackers with caviar, and drinks; pop or juice. It starts around noon and you usually stay for a couple hours. ==

=NOTES ON FRENCH CULTURE!=

-Whitney Walser!
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