Different all over

Culture differences: when asked about the different culture here in France, the first two weeks all I could tell you is that they are rude and when not prepared they will kiss you on each cheek. It wasn't until I talked to many people from all around the world I realized how shelter I really was and still am. I went to a restaurant where I was the only one eating there, a very nice man who spoke very well English asked me what I was doing here. "I am student" I said in broken French. "In Boise?" He replied "No not in boi..bome....Boise?" "Oh-la-la, you need a lot of work on your French" he replied. That lead us into the discussion of my so called french education I had in high school. I told him it was not necessary for Americans to learn a foreign language when they graduate high school or college. He was shocked."every where else they need to know, but not America" I began to wonder, why is that? My senior year of high school, which wasn't very long ago, I remember if a teacher handed out a three page paper everyone acted like it was the end of the world. My cute little German friend said it perfectly. "If Americans go to France, Germany or anywhere else, they expect all of us to know English. However I couldn't go to America and expect anyone to know German." He is 100% correct. Here I could go into the tiniest pastry shop and I could expect the baker, his wife, and probably even the dog to speak a little English if not fluent. But if someone came into my shop in Provo, not a signal person could get a sentence out in a foreign language. So as I write this is my tiny pink room in Boise, it is going to be hard to go back to Utah and listen to people complain about how hard "Math 1010" was today.