The emigrant's destiny: The foreign country has not become home, but home has become foreign.
--Alfred Polger (d. 1955), Der Emigrant und die Heimat
Emigranten-Schicksal: Die Fremde ist nicht Heimat geworden. Aber die Heimat Fremde.
Until 2007, I lived in Paris for many years, and had a blog there called Rue Rude.
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"Can you explain about lunchtime?" I asked the dean at the first parents' meeting.
"Well, there's no actual lunch hour, but they can usually grab a bite between classes. And of course everyone has at least one free period a day."
"How long do they have between classes?"
"Ten minutes."
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Actor Bruce Campbell: If you really analyze it, all the A movies are B movies....If you get bitten by a radioactive spider and dress up like a spider and fly around-- that's not only a B movie-- that's a 1950s B movie.
Interviewer: So Sam Raimi went on to make, uh, ...the three big Spiderman movies. And you have a cameo role in all of them, right?
Actor Bruce Campbell: Now, when you say "cameo," I would challenge that. I would go with "pivotal."
--Actor Bruce Campbell on NPR, 28 February 2009
Not quite the same as the four course meal my five year old daughter gets every day at school here in France!
Posted by: Stuart Mudie | 12 September 2008 at 12:04
The two hours for lunch is different too!
Posted by: Sedulia | 13 September 2008 at 00:33
So what is the right amount of time for lunch? Who decides?
Posted by: Ken B. | 14 September 2008 at 18:13