Je cherche un gars. I'm looking for a guy.

Yikes. I did it. Signed up for speed-dating. For those of you who don't know what it is, it's an event at which you have several "mini-dates", maybe 10, each lasting a certain number of minutes, for example 10 dates of 8 minutes each. Then a bell sounds and the men get up and move to the next table. Everyone is assigned a number, and you have a sheet of paper on which for each person you meet you mark off Yes or No if you'd like the see them again. If you both have yes's, you are sent that person's email by the event organizers.
I did it once in NY, it was fun, but I had no matches. Now in a few weeks times I will do so in Paris. Yikes!! What if they are all awful!! What if they all think I speak crappy French!! I'm really hoping that the mistakes I make in French will seem cute and charming and just add to my allure....

Bonne Année 2007

Bonne Année, meilleurs voeux, pleins de bonnes choses!

Best wishes for a happy new year full of good things! As i've just learned, this is what the French go around saying to one another the beginning of a new year. That and they font la bise (the greeting with a kiss on each cheek) with just about everybody they know, including those they don't reguarly bise. So that meant colleagues with whom usually a Bonjour will suffice were bise-ing away with me. I'm still not comfortable with this, though I'm used to it with my co-workers that I now bise routinely.

One guy I accidently brushed noses with, one women I touched her cheek but then she turned out to be a complete air-kisser, one guy wanted 4 bises, another guy I think wanted 4 but I had pulled away after 2, then I felt bad. It's so exhausting! So many different styles of bise!

Maybe next year I'll go on holiday until, say, Jan 10th or so. :)