Et maintenant, un peu de nostalgie

Getting excited for France, I started researching my favorite émissions online at the CANAL+ website (figures I’d wait this late in the game to do so).

I found Les Guignols de l’info!!! Which has the kind of political humor akin to your Colbert Report or Daily Shows. Anyways, you can watch recent episodes and the one from Sept. 18 in France is hysterical! They have a parody on the French immigrant bill which kills me!

The “proposed requirements” for entering France:

-4 photos d’identité
-un extrait d’acte de naissance
-un test ADN
-savoir parler francais courrament
-connaître « La Marseillaise »
-rouler en Peugeot ( !!! haha, yes )
-manger du jambon
-être abonné au Figaro
-avoir une residence secondaire en Normandie
-savoir jouer au tiercé
-avoir de la famille en France (un père ou un mère)
-dénoncer un voisin en situation irrégulière
-être blond (chatin clair accepté)

These images are so funny to me because they conjure up the stereotypical « France profonde » … which I haven’t thought of for a few years now. But yeah, that really took me back, made me laugh and I realllllllly can’t wait to get back to France and struggle through half-way understanding television shows.

...11 jours!!!