My 15 minutes of fame

So Monday night, I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in an interview that will (hopefully) be part of a documentary about Americans in France. The plan is for it to be aired the night after the elections, on one of the France télévision channels.

I was extremely nervous at first, especially once I found out the interview was going to be conducted in French, but I loosened up after a glass or two of wine. The funny thing is, knowing that the target audience is mainly francophone, I didn't really feel 100% free to state my views. I have often been accused of being too forward or direct (and rightly so), but after a few years in France, I've learned to sort of tame down or hold back my viewpoint depending on my audience. But many of you out there know how I get when I've got one too many glasses of wine in me, so I'm a bit nervous to see what they actually use.

There's also the slight problem of me not really remembering much about the actual filming so I'm wondering if I didn't have more to drink than I thought I did.....oops! I do seem to remember waving my arms around a bit manically while talking, which generally is a sign of me being either very excited or three sheets to the wind. Maybe Jen or Veronica can confirm or deny??

All things considered though, I don't think I was drunk during the actual interview, I think it was the bottle of wine the random Cordon Bleu student bought us at the end of the night that did me in. He bought it right before closing and I ended up drinking two glasses of wine way too fast. But I'm wondering now why they even let him buy it if they were planning on closing 5 minutes later? Either way, I did not need those last two glasses and I paid for it the next day.

So I am both looking forward to and not looking forward to see if our short interview made it into the documentary or if it was cut in the editing process. He had about 60 hours of film for 52 minutes of actual air time. I think he'll probably use at least some part of our group conversation because he said we were the only "youth opinion" he had, plus he was all excited about having Veronica be the token black person. Which to me spoke volumes about French culture, but whatever. Now there's only 50+ days to count down to see whether or not I made a fool out of myself (in French) on national television!