Paris: Cafe kerfuffle adds color to rainy week

Memorable moment: Color in Paris is distinctly absent for large swaths of autumn and winter. The sky fills with grey. The streets film over with rain. The people march around donning black knee-high boots with matching coats. But on every street there is a café, and that is what added color to my otherwise dark week in the City of Light.
I signed up for a French course at a school in the 16th arrondissement –- a posh area on the west end of the

right bank. Seven hours a day I tried to hear and then respond to the slur of sounds called French. I was the only American, but every other student spoke English. Some of us were in Paris for a week, and some for months. But we were all there alone, which meant fast friends.
After one day of lessons, I found myself in a café on [...]

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