bourgoise beheme

boursoise beheme (BOBO): this is what my host mother referred to Americans who are cultured. HAHA. the irony, the contradiction. on urbandictionary.com :

2.	bobo	235 up, 75 down
	Bourgeois Bohême, in French. Yuppies or dinks who live as is they weren't, love to differentiate themselves by visiting foreign countries before the herd of ordinary tourists flock after them (Croatia a few years ago, now the Baltic states), eat alternative/fair trade/organic food such as "bio fair trade Miso soup". They tend to live in mixed neighbourhoods to be near the poor, but they send their children to private schools to avoid too close a contact with the natives and they price all the poor out of the neighbourhoods they gentrify. Of course they concentrate in some parts of Paris and never could live in "la province". They often vote for the Communists or the Greens but take the fullest advantage of the tax gifts offered by right-wing governments. Le "no logo", c'est tellement bobo!

it was interesting to hear this slang coming from a 50 year old french woman. hmm i wonder what she thinks about me., she often talks about other students from various states and their eccentricities. of course there has to be a texan who was completely well, southern american! it's interesting, she realizes there are many faces of Americans.

i am doing quite well. my spirit is being freed and my mind expanded. i am no longer afriad of change and am learning to welcome it. i am trusting God a lot, i am learning a lot. i am living. i am life.