Viva La France, Viva La QWERTY
So here I am, stuck in Paris Charles De Gaulle airport for a 2 hour layover on my way from Luxembourg to JFK. The Air France lounge has some computers with internet access so I figure I'll go online check email and such. Then I noticed the keyboard. Apparently they don't use the QWERTY keyboard in France; instead they use something called the AZERTY keyboard (see if you can figure out the first 6 letters in the top left) Now once you've learned to type on a QWERTY keyboard and hqve done it for 15 years or so, you develop some muscle memory as to where the keys should be. But alas they are not there. On the plus side, they do have some symbols we dont have in the US like € and £, qnd qlso é, è, ç, ù and à. Bottom line though I'm back to the two finger method of typing. On the plus side they were trusting enough to not have any internet security programs installed so I could download AIM and talk to people while I wait for my plane. Anyway, this keyboard is really getting annoying so I'm gonna go now.


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