During my visit, my host's son, who is ten and intimidatingly bi-lingual, tells me a joke about being on a farm (la ferme) and being told to be quiet (ferme la).  A play on words.  He goes to school in Montreal but has recently returned from a trip to Japan with his parents and so conversation is also sprinkled with the odd Japanese expression. 

My host refers to the extra large pair of sisters on a neighboring farm by a name in Japanese that sounds like the English for "Sausage" with a Japanese pronunciation: "So - Say - Gee."  There is a further play on words here too, but I can't quite manage the subtle shifts in intonation.  

I suggest Les Soeur Saucisse (The Sausage Sisters) which I decide sounds like another name for the full-figured Weather Girls who sang "It's Raining Men," but this does not strike host and son as being nearly as funny. 

While we drive around the countryside and I take pictures, we listen to the adventures of Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer on Audio CD.  I can't begin to explain it to you.  Time Travel.  Elfs. 

I am also encouraged to read the Manga Death Note by Tzugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.    

I learn that the word for crazy is dingue which sounds like "dang."

"Dang! I be feelin' dingue," I sing like a Weather Girl.

"Il est dingue," my host observes to his son.