Oh, what a discovery!

I started my internship on the 18th of February. And today it's the 23rd of June. After more than 4 months, I just found out that someone there still has no idea that I am Malaysian. Here's what happened at lunch today.

Guillaume was laughing at me for having gotten 58% on a quiz on Malaysian food. (Hey, watzis? I passed what! :P) Then (I didn't hear it but that must have been it) Etienne must have asked why he was saying that, or what was the connection, 'cos Guillaume told him (I only heard the ending):
- ... parce qu'elle est malaisienne! (because she's Malaysian!)

His reaction?
- Sérieux?! (Serious?!)

HA HA HA HA...

What's more, after that he called Fernando Rodrigo (these are the names of the two Brazilian interns who are there with us) At this, Guillaume went "You don't know that she's Malaysian, you don't know that he's Rodrigo (or Fernando, I can't remember which he said), are you really working in the same place with us?" LOL
("Tu es sûr que tu travailles dans le même bureau?", if I'm not mistaken)

But other people have already mixed up their names too…for example the other Guillaume (there are two Guillaumes in the lab); I can't be sure about everyone else. As for me, I just didn't want to insist too much that I was Malaysian…I simply dropped in "in Malaysia" into the conversation once in a while when there was a context. But since I don't talk much anyway, I guessed that slipped through the cracks!

The icing on the cake? (cerise sur le gâteau in French, it made me almost write down "cherry on the cake", but then I thought, hey, that isn't right!) When we were leaving at the end of the day he did it again. I've forgotten how...but he mixed up the Brazilians' names again. So we had another round of laughs :P

For a little more info:
That quiz was on Facebook, on traditional Malaysian food. I hadn't even seen some of them before, and I knew the names of only a few...I mean, I don't learn those names! I point and say how much I want! lol

And the discovery? It was for both of us. ;P