1 Thursday Jeudi Week 35
By now, most everyone has returned from their month-long vacation in August. They call it rentrée. It’s similar to “back-to-school” but more pleasant somehow. During rentrée, shopkeepers dust off the cobwebs and reopen the boutiques. In our building, we swept out the squatter who decided to camp in the storage room for his holiday. People who rarely spoke before August begin conversing like old friends–all asking about vacation–who were they with, where did they go, and what did they eat.