三个星期的寒假，不算长，却也不短。除了拼命地吃喝玩睡之外，是否还有一些特别值得跟朋友们“炫耀”的回忆呢？

　　寒假期间，ＳＳＰ小记者、复旦附中高二学生李佳颖作为交换生在法国巴黎逗留了一周。沐浴在浪漫的法兰西文化中，佳颖同学不仅将自己的见闻和感受记录在了脑海里，更将它们转换成了文字与ＳＳＰ读者在此共享。下面这篇关于法国学生的文章，小编我读来也觉得新鲜之极，大长见识。一个字，赞！

　　This winter holiday, I, as an exchange student, together with 10 schoolmates and 3 teachers, flew to Paris for a week’s visit. We settled down there with local French families, and, our hosts, students from Alain High School of Paris.

　　Well, Paris is a fascinating and romantic city without doubt, as you can see, or even smell, from its historical architecture, wonderful museums, colorful street sights, and additionally, lovely French girls and boys.

　　Here I’m going to tell you some details about Paris students who are about the same age as us.

　　“I can speak．．．”

　　“I can speak French, English, Spanish and Chinese!”

　　“So can I. And one more: German!”

　　They told me calmly and a little proudly when asked what languages they could speak. They said it was very common for French students to command more than one foreign language. In many French schools, students are required to learn their first foreign language at 12, and the second about two years later. Even with this, they have a wider choice of what to learn compared with Chinese students, like Spanish, German, Italian and so on. Thus, not all French students can speak English quite well, as some of them may take it as their second or even third foreign language.

　　Nevertheless, to almost all of them, foreign language courses are not as important as other subjects, because they’re seldom required to or even have chances to use foreign languages such as English in their country.

　　In fact, as Paris is a very international city, many French students choose to learn foreign languages just in order to make friends from all over the world. Only a few of them have ever thought about the kind of international job they’ll get while learning foreign languages.

　　　 “My hobbies are．．．”

　　French students have a variety of hobbies like us Chinese teenagers. Most of them have their idols, a singer, a dancer, an actor, etc. Interestingly, my friend Julia found that her host student had the same favourite movie star as hers.

　　Besides, they also like hip-hop, rock and roll, and other popular entertainment and sports.

　　(P.S: To my surprise, quite a few girls have taken up smoking as one of their “hobbies”. “Smoking is not forbidden but quite popular in French high schools,” they said, “and we just enjoy the smell of cigarettes!”)

　　　 “We French are．．．”

　　“We French are lazy, stupid, obtuse(迟钝的)．．．” they often joked like that, laughing loudly. “We are less clever than you Chinese.”

　　Actually, a short stay with them has left a deep impression on my mind that French students are friendly, passionate(热情的), hospitable(好客的), humourous, creative, outgoing(外向的), patient, modest and lovable. During the weekdays, we talked about school life and personal interests every night; at the weekend, they showed us around Paris and helped us do some shopping in those famous shopping centres. Their bright personality attracted me a lot; and I found we had much in common though we were from totally different cultural backgrounds.

(责任编辑：汪春)