Everywhere we turned in Paris today, there were people flying their Algerian flags in celebration of today's football game against Slovenia. This includes the majority of those who filled the Trocadero for the outdoor screening of today's game.
While it is quite natural to expect a lot more Algerian flags than Slovenian in Paris, it was a little surprising to see how excited and demonstrative the Algerian fans were even after the lost.
We are quickly learning how the kids see things through a different lens. It took a lot of convincing to get them up the Eiffel Tower ("it's just a building") and they were not very interested in the Arc de Triomphe. Their cultural highlight today may have been watching the police flush out the illegal vendors beneath the Eiffel Tower and trying to understand what was going on.
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