Yesterday morning when I stepped out of my building to go to class, there was complete silence - no one on the street, everything was still. For a moment I wondered whether it was Sunday and that I had somehow ended my weekend a little too early...but no, that wasn't the case.
Today is a public holiday in France, the 11th of November. When a public holiday falls on a Tuesday or a Thursday, we sometimes don't work on Monday or Friday either. But yesterday in INSA we had classes...while in a whole lot of other universities they had an extra day off.
Which explained the silent street... It was eerie, in a way. Almost like everyone had just disappeared off the surface of the earth. (and I didn't even meet anyone coming down from my room on the 7th floor)
(You see, usually on a weekday there would be lots of people walking this way and that, cars moving along the street, everyone going about their working day.)
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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