1976 School Magazine

&eXgmm& Even on our first morning in Faris -we were awakened at 6 am by loud crashing sounds comrng fi';;-ilb; our hotei window. After staggering ri"""il"-t.t of U"d and opening the French win- a"#r--'*.itund that about ten-enormous rotrls of ;il;'t;;;;; w-ie being rolled off a truck and [r"." f*O"ini with a tremendous thump on the [oot- ;;dt rh; dd of each roll was then sliced o{ by u ;;il;f;ffip southern Frenchmen and rolled into a iiil"t.'6.i t"iliao*n to the printing presses.of the American newspaper the "ilerald Tribune"' We it"dl"ii"n to noticd the day before that our hotel was &;tt ;pposite one of lhe biggest newspaper of- fices in Faris. ^--Lif"-in F ance is fun, but it has its hazards' Driv- ins up the Champs-Elysees' one of the busiest streets in-paris is reallya nerve-racking experjence, not to mention trvine-to overtake a stream of trucks on a winding mbuntain road near Mont tslanc'- w" #"t" reallv surprised when we were flagged to the side of the rirad 6y a pair of gendarmes only to find that a motorconvoy of what looked like the "*tt of an atomic reactbr was heading towards us lna ** spread across the narrow road' This hap- o"n"A i*'^"tal times, sometimes with the warning t'Convoi Exceptionnel" carried in front. -Si T'rooez iurned out not to be the luxurious place it *is supposed to be. Xt was a myriad-of mys- f"ilout narrow itrees with tiny shops' {ts beaches *i,iii*Ov but of course theie was no surf' We found a beiutiful place to stay, cafle{ Cavalaire, not fai down the masl. Fnom mf bed x had an uninter- ruoted view of the Mediteiranean. Unfortunately *i Meditetranean tan was short-lived' Lioing on Vittel water and baguettes.while we *u* doi-oine was also fun. We were even able to buy nougat froli Montelimar, one of the most famous noufiat-manufacturing areas in France.

A SIVSA[-[, PART OF'EUTEOPE

Fortunatelv. we didn't realise that there were "-tttoui["t ioing on in nearby ltaly while we were il#b6;;;;;fis;p thousands oifeet near Mont Elanc! "'lii". oassins through Switzerland, Liechtenstein' and-Ausiria, rie reac-hed Germany' Our next stop was Dietenheim where I was to rneet my German ;-fr;;e.-After trving to telephone her and being ioia ttrut she didn't exis1, we looked up her street on iillit"*"'t"p *a hnally found he-r house' Ftrer il-iii'*'* """v friendlv ahd *hen we arived they *.r""utt swimniing in their back yard pool' jmt as tn ;;-iltilii* u?"t vard. Sinie mv pen-friend's "#"na *"i" both teachers at the local school, I was ;.;-; zuiA"A tour of the whole school' Unfor- E"nutetv Tt *as Sunday and the schooi was ernpty' Uut lt was the most impressive school tr've ever seen' There was not one word written on any desk and ev- "* *utUt" hall was spotless' The science labor- ;i6r*;;d [.ititt"nt were in perfect order and veny p.if"siio"atty organized and there was even a- typ- i"g rt"* *irit uoit of typewriters all perfectlY k"Pl' T'h"e school even had rubberized all-weather tennrs courts and running tracks' *Xn"i"o*ii"g itrrougtr Fleidelberg and seeing r<""i""niFii"E ctti"t""n "zum mitnehmen"' we r#itJ''pt*tzurt a"a sorrowfuliy-- returned our 'sil;;;";;hi"h had served us w6ll with the ex- I*ii"..itn"t $re in the Auvergne mourtains (we ;;"dt"o'J;ii'ttt"-'i*it.r"tions on *how to locate and Cn*g" the ipare tYle in French]) It telt strairge to*atch "T'he Streets of San Fran- "i.*;i" O"ifr* on Frankfurt television-and to see k;;*;;. itF*.*n tt'. wondertul zoo'Itwas also il;l;d;^;;e adverttea eYgrv.*he.tg a certain fiim called ;E'in Flug uber den Kuckuck's Nest" "-ii; nJ-fi"iifiou nv rot thirtv hot{s that vou real- ize tror far ftoni civilization we really are' Julienn6 Munro trV A

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