Busy, busy week in France

The busy week has finally ended in France where headline after headline, things are finally coming to a calm.

It all started with Thierry Henry's record breaking game against Lithania last Wednesday, October 17th, . With the French national team, Henry scored 2 fantastic goals in the last 10 minutes of the game to bring France closer to a qualifying bid for next summer's European championship in football (soccer for Americans). In doing so, Henry became the best striker in French history surpassing Michel Platini, who was until now, considered the best of the best. As they say, records are made to be broken. Final score, France 2 - Lithuania 0.

Ah but that same evening, all of France was preparing what was called a black day. Throughout France, they were numerous strikes in the public transportations. Consequently, many people were not able to work, and traffic jams were all around testing everyone's patience and nerves. Even until today, people are still struggling to find their way home with the public transportations.

Not only that, after several weeks of speculation by the press, it is official now. Our newly elected president is now a single man. Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife are officially divorced. It was indeed a black day for many, and for our president as well.

But bad news never come alone. After having defeated the so called best team in the world in rugby during the Worl Cup quarter-final against New Zealand, not only did the French rugby team lost in the semi-final against a mediocre English team 17-9 last week, but it got man-handled and humiliated by Argentina 34-10 during the 3rd place game. The French flare flamed out after France's emotional and tremendous game against the All Blacks.

All in all, the press in France and its people have many things to talk about. It is time now for Sarkozy and the French rugby team to start all over again and write up new stories and legends to inspire and intrigue us. Soon, we'll be talkin bout a revolution ...