Word: parise
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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I fully anticipated that my experience working in Paris this summer for three months would enhance my appreciation for French culture, language and the daily working world. That might very well happen. But even before I left the Charles De Gaulle airport, my first encounter with the French left me...
When my two bulging suitcases failed to arrive in Paris, lost in transit someplace between Boston, New York and Amsterdam, I became another number for the baggage retrieval services. Jetlagged and wearied from flight delays and air turbulence, with my rusty French I tried to convey to the unsympathetic baggage...
But as the day dragged on with no word from the airport and I spent two nights shivering in borrowed shorts and tee-shirt, my calm demeanor soon deteriorated. The baggage office answered only every third time I called, and the noise in the background at De Gaulle sounded like...
Of course, there were unusual circumstances exacerbating my tribulations at De Gaulle Airport. Because of the Air France strike, the airport truly resembled the Paris zoo. Luggage of all shapes and sizes spilled out into the hall and angry passengers were fighting to reclaim their precious suitcases. My trek out...
Dafna V. Hochman '00, a social studies concentrator in Adams House, is interning for the State Department in Paris this summer.