'I can’t afford to be sick in America. So for the next I-don’t-know-how-long, France will be my home.'
. If I found a way to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris — an eight hour journey by car — I would need to carry a signed document explaining my situation: a foreigner, trapped in France, trying to get home.I miss my mom, my stepdad, my brother and my sisters. I’m worried sick for my father, who is recovering from brain surgery, and my grandparents, who are in their 60s. I miss my country. I miss hearing English conversations; I miss McDonald’s breakfast; I miss the Appalachian mountain range.
But I can’t afford to be sick in America. So for the next I-don’t-know-how-long, France will be my home. Thousands of other assistants, students and others in Europe for the school year planned to return to the United States in the next couple of months. We were booking our tickets for friends’ graduations. We were buying presents for our mothers. We were looking for jobs. Some of these Americans have rushed home,Claudia Siegenthaler, an assistante in Caen, France, is on her way back to California. A dual Swiss and American citizen, she feels at home in Europe and the U.S.
When I asked my friend and fellow Floridian Marea Frazel her opinion on Americans repatriating due to COVID-19, she replied, “Can my comment just be ‘yikes’?” Frazel, an engineer, has no plans to leave Hamburg, Germany, for the United States. “The health care system is better here, I’m insured here, I’m not insured in the U.S., and my parents are fine.” She feels safer in Germany, where the state health care system is “more stable.”“force majeure,”Before this, my time in France was temporary.
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