Fortheo wrote:One last thing: I need some comedy in my life. If anyone knows and funny french movies, books, shows, whatever, please suggest them. Thanks
Oooh, I would also love some recommendations for French comedy! Here's a few off the top of my head: Delicatessen, which is quite a black comedy; Les Visiteurs (with 2 sequels) - just thinking about Christian Clavier's delivery of "Okay!" makes me ; Kaboul Kitchen, a TV show that I have, but haven't watched yet (I think sillygoose has reviewed it in his log?); OSS 117: Le Caire, nid d'espions (with sequel), which is kind of a parody of the original novels; and finally Les Bronzés (with 2 sequels), which apparently is a huge cultural thing in France, and everyone can quote it. When I told a French co-worker that I was going to be studying French at uni, she insisted I watch it and lent me the DVD the next day. The dialog is very quick and clever though, so I'm saving rewatching it until I get my French level up.
Re: anxiety, I've learnt lately that the brain is a kind of neurological muscle - the more you have an anxiety response, the easier and stronger it becomes, so it ends up being the dominant/automatic response. Two things that I have an instant, automatic 'calming' reaction to are the colour green (shades that you get with trees etc.) and a specific crickets 'noise' (from a childhood holiday abroad), so I've recently added green furnishings to my living space and have the crickets as background noise as much as possible. Despite the last week being particularly stressful, I can definitely see an improvement from this 'forced calming'.