Poisson d'Avril and other fishy French happenings

Today is the first of April, otherwise known as Poisson d'Avril. The April Fool's Day equivalent of France, I was expecting to be secretly pinned with a cut-out paper fish by some sneaky classmate as per tradition, but zut alors, no luck!

Otherwise, today was blue. It transitioned between almost raining, then raining throughout the afternoon. Because rain so rarely darkens Aix's door, it was funny to see the local reaction today's Spring shower. Some looked surprised, some ran to hide under cafe awnings, but most simply looked offended, like God should rethink his plans for the weather and run it by the people of southern France before he decides upon a gloomy, blue day next time.

Translation, which is my most boring class after France and Europe, was somewhat redeeming today. We had a worksheet called "Match the Funny Phrases". After reading the title, I knew class was going to be more interesting than usual. Here is what I learned, with the English translation of the French phrase on the left, and the English equivalent of the phrase on the right:

To have the face of drinking-- To have a hangover
He was taking the hand in the sack-- He was caught red-handed
It is good the son of the father-- He's a chip off the old block
He feels sick like a dog-- He felt as sick as a parrot (Apparently, the French think we use this phrase often)
My ear!-- My foot!
She lost the bowl-- She has lost her marbles.
It is cold like a duck-- This is real brass monkey weather!

I thought these were rather aptly described with the worksheets title of "funny". I'm not sure if it is applicable to today's storm, but man-oh-man was there some real brass monkey weather today!