Answers to Questions WHERE AM I
“Where am I? Try and imagine all the reasons you are in Paris. Yes, Kattia but well before her there were other things. You could point to Jaws, the movie that made you want to study oceanography which in turn caused you to take French as a language because you'd read it would help your chances at becoming an oceanographer. That was before you realised you had no propensity for biology or science. It was language all along, not science. And with that French class, your first real trip abroad; France and Paris. What was it, 1980 Paris? 1979 Paris? 1981 Paris? All hard to say, hard to remember. But you got drunk for the first time in your life in France and stayed drunk for more than 40 years. Something kept luring you back again and again. Pit stops. You went with Claudia, who had lived here for a year abroad and hated it. You slept in the morning in Jardin de Luxembourg because the hostel didn't open until later....