Salut YouTube! I hope this video find you
guys doing well. If you don't know me my
name is Rosie and I'm a New Zealander
who's living in Paris. I love doing
videos on French culture life in France
being an expat New Zealand culture
travel and lots of other things and
today I wanted to do a video of some of
the clear signs of when you know you're
in France. They're often just these
things that I've kind of only
encountered in France or at least
encountered for the very first time here
in France so without further ado let's
get started okay so you know you're in
France when people around you have an
irrational fear of air conditioning. So
it's August at the moment in Paris we've
been experiencing a heat wave and you
can probably tell just by looking at me
because I've got the door closed in
order to be able to film this video and
it's hot. But the French I've noticed
just sort of seemed to suffer through it
because turning on air-conditioning and
installing air conditioning here doesn't
really seem to be a thing and I noticed
pretty quickly that it's related to the
thought that air conditioning makes you
sick and I've noticed this in general in
France there seems to be a kind of fear
of a "courrant d'air" an air current and the same
kind of goes for the air conditioning my
colleagues or friends family members say
that when they're in air conditioned
environments they get sore throats or
sore necks and there's really a general
belief that it makes you sick maybe it's
because if they install air conditioning
is gonna have to travel through some
really old buildings and apartments and
they're worried about the microbes that
it's carrying or it's probably related
as well to the change in temperature so
they don't like going from hot to cold
and I've noticed in France a lot you say
"il fait froid" and "il fait chaud", you talk
about what what current temperature you
have quite a lot and while I agree that
you know air conditioning can allow
germs or microbes to travel through the
air to some extent I don't believe that
it's guaranteed to make you sick because
there are a lot of people living in
air conditioned environments in a lot
of areas of the world and people aren't
sick 24/7 I don't think it's a direct
link that if you experience
air conditioning you will get sick and I
actually read a really funny article
recently about this kind of French fear
of air conditioning and I'll link it
down below if you want to read more
about that. You also know that you're in
France when you can only attend sales
twice per year.
In France sales and stores are actually
state regulated so there are two major
seasons when you go on sale so around
the summer time and around Christmas
time so I come from a country where
sales have been at least every season so
what's the season and then for other
special events as well you've got
Mother's Day Father's Day Valentine's
Day I mean you name it they can be
on sale and I guess in France maybe
what they're trying to do is regulate
the amount of competition between stores
so you know fair's fair, you all go on
sale at the same time. I found this to be
a really interesting policy. It also
means that I don't spend a lot you know
the months leading up to the sales period
because you know I'll sort of be there
in April May and I'm like well I'm not
gonna buy a single thing because I know
that the summer sold the sales are
coming up soon but it's just a really
fascinating way of doing things I think.
Another piece of evidence that you're
differently in France is that you have
to push a button to get out of buildings
so to get out of any apartment building
if you go to a doctor's cabinet
I mean if you go to any building as
such there's usually a button labeled
"porte" - door - that you have to press and
order to get out this took a lot of
getting used to when I first arrived the
amount of times I was like trying to get
out through the door like like like just
leave me just what what's not working
how do I get out and then you're like
away I have to press a button or the
amount of times that I've not known
which button to press and I've been
turning on lights or open buzzing people
in their apartment like we are though oh
no sorry sorry sorry so if you find
yourself stuck in a building in France
look for the magic button. Another sign
of being in France and I don't know if
this is all European countries okay
maybe let me know down below if this is
the case but I find the handwriting
very particular.
So French children actually learn very
kind of script handwriting you know like
cursive font for us we're actually just
writing and very plain singular letters
from the time that we're in school until
much later actually do we ever learn to
write properly I don't know I think they
tried to teach us at some point but it
didn't really work so I mean if I'm
writing I'll just be like R - O - S - I -E
but in France it's like R - O - S - I - E
very fancy handwriting. But you know not
all of us are very gifted when it comes
to handwriting and I often find the
handwriting looking like just a
scribbled mess I mean it's hard enough
to read French as it is when you're
learning the language but the
handwriting can be so scribbly and you
know how universally doctors have
terrible handwriting? like this just
happens to be a thing? Well in France let
me tell you it's just the next level
there I mean sometimes I leave the
doctors and I've got a prescription and
there'll be like a line
and I'm just like how can anyone
understand what is written on this
prescription right now and then the
pharmacist takes it and is like "ah oui"
and they just go and look for the thing.
The next thing for me where I know that
I make in France or at least Paris at
least is seeing these gorgeous little
miniature French children honestly I
don't think I think they're barely
walking we're talking like one year olds
on scooters like I have never seen
little children so young with so much
freedom and autonomy on their little
scooters they're just scooting around
everywhere with mum and dad I'm not sure
if this is in other cities as
well or it's just a Parisian thing but
they've all got this identical scooter
if I can find a photo of it I'll try and
put it here in the video. They're so
independent and so impressive and I
just I can't believe that's these tiny
little things and they're just scooting
around, scooting around the park you know
on the pavements of Paris and they're
all independent pushing themselves along
and I just find it so cute I think in
New Zealand maybe we
start scooting around like four five six years old
not like one or two. Okay guys well I'm
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A bientôt !
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