1/19 Met my first American hater

So Wednesday morning was something I was really looking forward to. Stéphane, he is the Director of all the primary school assistants, he is the one who set us up in the beginning, he is also in charge of all the primary school assistants and is the director of the English program within all the primary schools. Well he has these meeting on Wednesday mornings for other French teachers. The meeting is also like a class for the French teachers and he teaches better ways to teach English and more effective lessons, homework, and exams all in English. Well each week he brings 2 assistants with him, the assistants help out with pronunciations and new vocab. Charlotte and I were kind of excited to go, since all the other assistants said it was a good time, and that all the other teachers were super nice. Well our group was not the case. They were the exact opposite.  They were so rude and unprofessional during Stéphane presentation and then at the end I want to knockout this stupid French teacher. He was clearly an American hater and my first, mind you the whole time I’ve been in France. I think that’s pretty good, 4 months and only one American hater. But this was my first one on one experience with one and I really didn’t like him. OK so it all started as a game during the whole presentation, Stéphane gave all the teachers an English quiz and Charlotte and I read aloud the oral parts. Well all the teachers then kept asking us where we were from but Stéphane wanted to save that for the end as a little game. So towards the end of the class he split the class up into 2 large groups, I apparently got the rude noisy American hater group. Well the whole time they weren’t listening and they just kept asking me where I was from. Every time I said a word they would be like, “Oh she’s from America.” And they would say America and then make this face. Now, when talking about something you don’t like you tend to make a face, am I right? When I talk about seafood, I make a face of complete disgust because I think it’s gross. Well their faces were sort of kind of like that. Then at one point I said the word “water” and then all hell broke loose (not really), but they were like you’re definitely from America and I was like ok you got me, I from America, and then this one guy asked me again to say the word “water” and so I did, and he was like, “OMG, the way you say water is clearly American.”And he face was of utter disgust, so then I asked him, “how do you say ‘water’?” and he said it, and then I said, “Oh I guess you say ‘water’ the British way.” But there was tons of attitude behind it, I just can’t express it through this blog, but I’m not a fan of his, and I hope that I never see him again.