“In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.”
I was confused at first while reading "The Winter Circus" because the contrast between American and France. The story starts off with what sounds like normal everyday news expect its from the European point of view. I didn't realize the narrator was in France until a page or two later. There are differences in every country ranging from the language, traditions and technologies.
There is a quote I would like to include here that describes life perfectly when referring to these kind of situations. "The odd thing in making a big move is the knowledge that your life will be composed of hundreds of small things that you will arrive at only by trial and error, and that for all the strikes and seminars you attend, the real flavor of life will be determined, shaped, by these things." To me, this means that not matter how big a change, move, or anything else of that matter is, there are always the little things that help reminds us of what life is about. Not everything is going to go your way but there are little things that will, you have to pick and chose you battles. Make or reshape you ways of thinking in order to survive.
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I was confused at first while reading "The Winter Circus" because the contrast between American and France. The story starts off with what sounds like normal everyday news expect its from the European point of view. I didn't realize the narrator was in France until a page or two later. There are differences in every country ranging from the language, traditions and technologies.
There is a quote I would like to include here that describes life perfectly when referring to these kind of situations. "The odd thing in making a big move is the knowledge that your life will be composed of hundreds of small things that you will arrive at only by trial and error, and that for all the strikes and seminars you attend, the real flavor of life will be determined, shaped, by these things." To me, this means that not matter how big a change, move, or anything else of that matter is, there are always the little things that help reminds us of what life is about. Not everything is going to go your way but there are little things that will, you have to pick and chose you battles. Make or reshape you ways of thinking in order to survive.
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