The letter came seven days before predicted. I hopped in my housemate’s car and drove through the rain that caused yellow leaves to litter the street.
The Mairie is a tiny stone building in the Centre of the village. The young man who had taken the information for my identity card and passport wore a Burberry scarf around his neck (Europeans with any respitory illness or one threatened always wear scarves around their necks) and was blowing his nose.
“Avez-vous un rhum?”
“Oui.”
His cold did not stop him handing over these precious documents. My passport is beautiful, not just because I waited so long and went through so much to get it. On the VISA pages there are drawings of buildings in each Canton along with the Coat of Arms for the Canton.
As I drove back down the hill with the vineyards to one side, the lake below, I shivered, as I have so often these past few days whenever I realise that I am actually a citizen of this democracy.
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DL..did you really post this at 2 in the morning?? Anyways, I'm enjoying reading the blog and this posting reminds me I need to go and get my Swiss passport (when they asked me why I want to be Swiss I said because Bush got reelected so I would like another nationality to fall back on so I don't have to lie and say I'm Canadian). Good for you and your new nationality!
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