Wednesday 24 October 2012

Thirty years ago...

Came across the orange carte de séjour from my year abroad, October 1982, the year that turned out to be the year(s) from hell when I got Coxsackie, then ME. 



It makes me think of this wee snippet from The State of Me:

We had to register at la préfecture and get ID cards. Le préfet was like a Peter Sellers character. He glared at us while he stamped our cartes de séjour with a hundred different stamps. We started to giggle and he glimmered us a smile. 



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