Nicole (host mom), Denis (host mom's "ex-husband"), and I are sitting at the dinner table.
Nicole: Do a lot of Americans know who Johnny Hallyday is?
Me: Um, no. I don't think any Americans know who he is.
Denis: Americans don't know anyone.
Me: Well,--
Denis: Gerard Depardieu?
Me: Yes.
Denis: (another French actor's name that I can't currently remember)
Me: Yes.
Denis: And that's it.
Me: And Audrey Tatou!
Denis: Oh, yes. Amelie Poulain.
Nicole: Oh, good! Americans should know Audrey Tatou. She's so cute!
This was after they told me to finish the fruit salad because I "need to eat fruit." And in some kind of weird family dynamic, I felt like the child of my French host mother and her separated (but not really) French husband.
...I'm really going to miss this place.
Nicole: Do a lot of Americans know who Johnny Hallyday is?
Me: Um, no. I don't think any Americans know who he is.
Denis: Americans don't know anyone.
Me: Well,--
Denis: Gerard Depardieu?
Me: Yes.
Denis: (another French actor's name that I can't currently remember)
Me: Yes.
Denis: And that's it.
Me: And Audrey Tatou!
Denis: Oh, yes. Amelie Poulain.
Nicole: Oh, good! Americans should know Audrey Tatou. She's so cute!
This was after they told me to finish the fruit salad because I "need to eat fruit." And in some kind of weird family dynamic, I felt like the child of my French host mother and her separated (but not really) French husband.
...I'm really going to miss this place.

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