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This reminds me of a story. When I was in college in the states, one summer we had a French exchange student working at my mother's travel agency. I, the French major, was trying to remember some commonplace nouns, and asked him "Nicolas, comment dit-on "screwdriver" en francais?" He paused, scrunched his eyebrows, and said earnestly "Auto-ecole?"

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Favourite bit- "Wait, you have drug dealers out here?” I asked, trying not to appear personally interested. Llongyfarchiadau as we say in Wales for passing your test

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