A French-American perspective on politics, culture, current events, religion, languages, and education
Monday, October 30, 2006
A painful moment!
You may have heard of Mary Pierce’s injury last week. She tore the front cruciate ligament on her left knee and has undergone surgery. I have been told that tearing your knee ligament is extremely painful; well this impressive video shows how bad it must have been. Just watching it is painful.
[By the way, I don’t get why she is left there in pain, screaming all alone for a good 10 to 15 sec. What were they thinking?]
Somewhere beneath all the inane clichés that politicians and the media bandy about, there lies a true Franco-American relationship that stems from a deep appreciation and fascination with each other's language, culture and society. This is where we live, below the radar, exploring the mundane, finding pleasure in the details, and sharing our passion for another culture with our students. We are educators, teaching English in Paris and French in Boston. Trained and training at the Sorbonne and Harvard, respectively, we choose here to let our café conversation spill out onto the sidewalk. Others should feel free to eavesdrop or join the conversation through comments.
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