What you on about? 
I just meant why say 'Does your hand get at all tired, copying out so many of other people's posts?' if you knew it was copied and pasted...?
jinglebellfrocks
^Well Hollydaze I stand by what I said, despite your forcibly expressed disapprobation. 
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You are entitled to stand by what you have said, however incorrect it sounded.
Forcible? You seriously think that was forcible?
Does your hand get at all tired, copying out so many of other people's posts?
Nope
#tooright
wanders into thread and backs out in total confusion
That's Gransnet for you!
Also, what's the point of having these video screens [trying to forget the awful sight of the haggard woman I saw on the screen when I went through after an 8 hour flight the other week 
]that record your face when you go through customs if people can then go around with their faces covered?
It's a known fact that France is xenophobic. A French friend was astonished to see so many Muslim women wearing the burkha when she was in London in the summer. This is a lovely, friendly intelligent person who lived for many years in Paris before moving here to the 'sticks '.Her actual expression was 'I was shocked, and felt very uncomfortable.'
This led on to a very interesting discussion amongst a mixed group of friends from France, UK and NZ. The NZers were in the teaching profession and they didn't like to see girls wearing the full veil as they felt it was a barrier between pupil and teacher. And there I was thinking they were laid-back and hyper- tolerant in the antipodes.
I have always thought it must be very difficult to have a patient/doctor relationship for example if the GP, or even worse, a specialist, was wearing the full veil.
Re the student exchange... Grandjura was it ? I organised this type of holiday in a previous life and I can totally believe your expereince. Much though I love them, the French ( especially where their 'little darlings' are concerned) can be extraordinarily demanding, if not downright unreasonable! Perhaps we should get together and write a book..... 'The Joys and Perils of Being a French Homestay Organiser'
Love the idea of the book- I'd have a few stories to tell. Over the years in Leics I must have hosted 100s of foreign students, some on a paid basis, some on exchanges, some of our assistantes at school, some from other schools, friend's kids and their friends's - and later for the few years I run my language school from home, hosting 6 teenagers at a time from at least 3 different countries/languages, so they would have to speak English together ... I hosted many from Nice, only to realise a few years later that they were all children of National Fron leaders- and they asked me to be their official host- I declined 
No time to write about the attitudes of French teachers now- they basically came in 2 camps- those with clearly racist à la Front National, and those who at the opposite end were quite left-wing and truly believed in the French principle of secularity, including education- and genuinely believed it was their duty to protect girls from their parents. Going out, but will come back to this when I have time- a fascinating subject, and the attitude is so different to the UK one.
We had three French students stay at different times and they were lovely. Never discussed politics with them, though [although one, probably one of the most intelligent teenagers I've ever met, came from a very avant garde Parisien family and I doubt if she was anything other than left wing in her views]. Struggled with a couple of Norwegian students that stayed at one time . Wish I'd kept in touch with the French girls afterwards; I still remember all three of them with such fondness.
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