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Graduation countdown: 22 days

22 days.

Over my February vacation last year, I was reading some French book and sitting by the bus stop to get the bus back to Nîmes and various people began to join me. Quite a few of them spoke English, but I was lost in my book and don't normally talk to strangers, anyway. I got onto the bus and sat behind two Americans. They were talking amongst themselves and I wasn't really paying attention, but I caught words here and there. Then one of them turned around and said, "Mademoiselle, vous habitez ici?" ("Miss, do you live here?") Suddenly I put together all of the snippets of their conversation that I'd overheard and realized that they were talking about me (and trying to figure out how old I was) and thought I was French. "Non," I replied, wondering if I should 'fess up. "Si ça ne vous dérange pas, vous habitez où?" ("If you don't mind me asking, where do you live?") I thought about saying "Grenoble" and leading them on, but I figured I might as well be honest (and get the opportunity to see how they'd react!) So I took a deep breath and admitted "Michigan," which made one of them collapse behind the seat in embarrassment. But they were quite nice and sweet and we chatted all the way back to Nîmes.

Where are you guys? They were from California somewhere.

srah - Friday, 12 April 2002 - 4:16 AM
Tags: graduation countdown, study abroad, travel

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