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...second day at work that I took my first taxi in Washington D.C. For all practical purposes, the trip was nothing out of the ordinary--just a quick jaunt over to the Martin Luther King public library to renew a dog-eared book on U.S. presidents...
Walking to the elevator, those two bills nestled safely in my pocket, I realized--come to think of it--I had never really "caught" a taxi...
...asking for advice from taxi drivers, hotel clerks and a few fellow travelers, I directed myself through the two day journey to Comitan. The three plane flights and four hour bus ride transplanted me into an incredibly foreign environment. I am as far away from the high-powered connection-making summer-after-junior year jobs as you can be. I am seeing how people live in a part of the world that is essentially forgotten. No one hits it big here: the people don't discover cures, write amazing novels, or work 100-hour weeks...
...press center in the town of Pau carefully crafting our stories about the allegations of drug use against Armstrong--unfounded, it seems. I had to be in Bordeaux--a city three hours away--by morning, so I filed my story about 10, packed quickly and took a taxi to Bordeaux. By 2 a.m. the taxi driver and I were engaged in a fascinating discussion about drugs and the effect they have had on cycling...
Jenny E. Heller '01 is a philosophy and French concentrator in Lowell House. She is working for the Los Angeles Times in Paris this summer and wrote this postcard riding in a taxi along the edge of a cliff in the Pyrenees...