By John Slattery
Having been overseas for three and a half years, I returned to the United States.
When I came back, I came straight to San Francisco.
In the first few weeks people would ask, “So, where’d you move here from?” When I told them I’d just come from a year of teaching in Paris, 99% of their responses had a similar theme, which all fit into one category: I LOVE PARIS!
Typical responses were:
“Paris! Wow, lucky you!”; or
“You know my wife and I had our honeymoon in Paris”; or just,
“Man, I love Paris!”
Often in the same conversations, their follow up question had to do with where I was before Paris. When I told them that I’d been a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco for two and a half years – they had a very different kind of response.
