Back in Lille

Ok so I'm back in Lille for the day. I have many errands to run and an all important trip to Ikea to make...my little apartment is cute, but quite bare at the moment. I met more students yesterday and one class (the one that saw Fahrenheit 9/11) was quite interested and had lots of questions about the movie. I'm having my mom send "Dude, Where's my Country"...I'm sure they'd like to read exerpts of it. The one question most of the classes asked me, besides "do you like George Bush," is "what are the biggest differences between the US and France?" That question is hard because there aren't many differences. It seems like all I hear is american music (the girl at the bus stop was singing Beyonce - in butchered english...but i could still tell what song it was). I'd say that at least 70 % of the series on TV are American. Unfortunately they get the worst of it: Dawson's creek, Columbo, the movie Step-mom (yes, i watched it...but only because I couldn't sleep) but some good stuff too, like Six Feet Under, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind and a French version of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, called Queer 5. Now if only the movie Garden State would come here...I think I need to see if for a fourth time....