For some, it’s the return from vacation or to the classroom or the start of football season. Orange school buses will be back on the road. Walmart and Target and mall parking lots have been filled with parents hoping to finish shopping for the “must haves,” and kids hoping to negotiate a little extra. When I was growing up, we started school after Labor Day. . . .And we always insisted on something new to wear that first day.
In Gainesville, with the return of nearly 70,000 college-age students (UF and Santa Fe College combined), businesses feel things will go better. On the UF campus, parents and students have been unloading blankets, pillows and electronics from cars, SUVs and UHauls near the dorms. Schedules. Maps. Textbooks. Syllabi . . . .I still remember hoping to get a “good schedule” and feeling so far behind that first week of class.
In France, the great migration north, which began around Aug. 1, picks up again in mid August.. The information campaign--bison futé – has an American Indian as its mascot and uses a series of colors (green, yellow, orange, red, black) to indicate periods to avoid major roads.
Some things will probably never change. The back to school elation and panic that come with the return to the classroom and the major French traffic jams in late summer. But it's all part of experience.
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