so.... I went shopping with a bunch of kids from my group... there were supposed to be sales today- but we didn't really find any. Anyway the funny part was when I was sick of looking at things way out of my price range and just wandering around, I decided to try on this 200 euro dress that looked like a huge cup cake.... well.... I didn't really think it through and seeing as it was a super nice parisian store a french lady came to help me put it on, tell me it looked fabulous and convince me to buy it..... all was going fairly well until I admitted that I didn't have a specific occasion to use a 200 dollar dress and then tried to get Makenna to take a picture. She told me "non photos! Vous ne peuvez pas des photos!" That was it. When I got out of the dress she was was ticked - I was planning to tell her it was a lovely dress - but too expensive - but she wouldn't even let me get the words out she just took the dress, glared at us and told us to leave (not literally but with her eyes and actions. YIKES - she was MAD!! I could not help laughing my guts out though at how stupid I was to try that and how very ticked she got! Then after that we went shopping for groceries which took forever b/c we couldn't figure out the prices and if we wanted to share lunches/dinners or what we wanted to do.... plus we didn't know were to find stuff... anyway.... by the time we got to checkout we were just ready to be done. Well we decided to do self check out but we had SOOOO many problems! first we forgot to bring bags to put the food in so I emptied my shoulder bag onto the floor and started trying to put my food in there, while makenna was putting it in her clothing store bag... (she took the clothes out). Then both machines stopped working and we didn't know why so the lady had to come and help us.... and she tried to explain what we did wrong but we didn't understand. then I had a problem b/c in france you weigh your produce and print out a sticker when you choose you goods and then just scan the sticker at checkout..... well I forgot to do that so the lady had to help me again. Then the lady didn't like the fact that makenna was using her clothing store bag so she got her some other bags.... then I couldn't get the money to go in to the machine (maybe I was in a credit card only line.... not really sure- so yet again needed assistance- finally for some reason we both had to transfer lines.... and then makenna couldn't open her plastic bag.... and finally we were both humiliated b/c everyone (especially the helper lady) were looking at us like - wow americans are even more stupid than we thought) and I still had to stuff my shoulder bag with all the food - not to mention pick up all my junk off the ground - it was seriously ridiculous - I could not make it out the doors before I was cracking up! We laughed ourselves silly all the way home - and then we had to act out the whole thing for our host mom b/c we don't know the word for self-checkout.... ahhhh! humiliation- that is the key for a satisfying day in Paris!! hahaha! I am going to try to not be quite as typically stupid american - but at the same times these are also going to be the memories that will keep me laughing! anyway- humiliation is no longer an issue... bang ups and hang ups are just part of life with erin schill!
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