Replacements

End of August 2010. I just arrived in Paris and I’m subletting a cute appartment on the 7th floor ( no elevator) near district ‘Bastille’. Nancy (my roomate and dear friend in Chicago) calls me.

‘how are you?!! How is Paris?’

‘Well,I’m not going out much, I don’t have a social life yet, I just need to catch up with the way of working in France and get adjusted. I think it will take me a year’ 

‘Do not worry, you will find your Chicagoan replacements in Paris. You will be out and about very soon’.

I ticked. Excelling at problem-solving, Nancy was right on: she said the magic word: REPLACEMENTS. Subconsciously, I was searching for replacements of my Chicagoan life in Paris. While you will read the blog, you will get to know my new ’replacement’ in Paris. And when you come visit, I hope to take you to one or more of them

With love,

FF