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In Nice!

Things have been going really well so far. This is my first real access to free Internet, so, well, I thought I'd check in just to say things are fine and I'm alive.

Longer letter later.

Love,
CJ

“You English majors, you’re too progressive for me. I like my literature traditional and boring.” ~ brunette girl from Egypt program to Chamberlin house boy, overheard in the library today.

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HUGE dinner last night at this beautiful Art Nouveau restaurant where I felt like I was really speaking French and communicating and doing well and such for the first time since I've been here. It was like being back at camp, almost, and wonderful. More about it later.

♥

Today, I saw a man not ten feet away from me go through a plate-glass window. I was looking in that general direction (of a café) while Amy and Margaret consulted our map, and a sudden movement caught the corner of my eye: this older black man, who had been sitting quietly at his table just inside the front of the café, suddenly doubled over and ( Read more... )

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