2010年1月14日木曜日

Short study abroad:France

I am going to talk about manners to spend a comfortable time in France. There are three things you should do.
First, I’m going to talk about laundries. Before you go to coin-operated laundry, you should be ready for 1Euro and 50 cent. Keep your eye on your laundry or otherwise you will find your close outside of the laundry because in France, it’s not a rare matter to not wait turns. Sometimes there are people who throw clothes in other’s laundry even though they’re not finished.

Secondly, I’m going to talk about manners in restaurants. In some restaurants, you have to order at least mineral water to drink. Only drinking running water is not against the manner, but they’re may be differences in service quality between what you ordered. The best is to order Wine.

Finally, I’m going to talk about shopping. If you go shopping, and when you enter the shop, you should exchange greetings with the clerk. Greetings are very important in France. Also, just watching or touching clothes are very rude thing in France. Moreover, the rudest thing is you didn’t buy anything in spite of making the clerk bring clothes to try on!!

I talked about things to be careful, but I think being healthy is the basic but most important thing to concentrate on studying abroad. Take care and prepare early, so you can have a meaningful and memorable trip! Those who are afraid going abroad, be confident and take a step!! This is a chance to learn a lot of things!!