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Ellie was excited at the thought of studying in
Paris at the famous Sorbonne University. At
the same time, she felt anxious about going to
stay with a distant aunt she had never met or
even heard of until recently. ‘There really is
no other option if you want to study in an
expensive city like Paris, as we can barely
afford the tuition let alone the cost of food
and a flat, she reviewed her mother’s words of
wisdom in her head as she sat in the taxi
glancing out at the Paris street life.
Aunt Celia was a very distant cousin of her
mother’s. Growing up in the village of Bandol
in the south of France, Ellie had never heard
much about her mother’s family as they were
all back in Marseille or elsewhere in France.
Her mother had married her father and moved
with him to her village, where her father had
found a job as a tax auditor and her mother
eventually began teaching at the local school.
Ellie and her brother had lived all their lives
in Bandol and neither of them had ever been
much further than Marseilles.
The taxi turned onto the Champs Elysees and past
all the designer shops and stylish cafes. Aunt
Celia’s penthouse flat was located just off the
Champs Elysees in an elegant neighbourhood.
Manicured lawns and perfect gardens lined the
large boulevard where her aunt lived, a far throw
from the provincial little town Ellie came from.
The taxi slowed and pulled off to the side in front
of a grand crimson brick residence. The door to
the taxi was swung open by rather a well-dressed
doorman, who greeted her with a snobbish air.
‘Madame Goutard is expecting you, ’ he
announced. The doorman paid the taxi driver,
retrieved her one suitcase and proceeded up
the granite stone path to the elaborate stain-
glass and rot-iron entrance. Ellie followed him
uncomfortably. Inside the lobby of the building
Ellie was taken back by the bleach white
marble that seemed to cover everything
except the massive gold gilded mirrors that
towered over her on each of the walls. As they
entered the elevator and the doorman pressed
the button for the penthouse, Ellie admitted
to herself the Madame Goutard and her
obviously affluent world was beyond anything
Ellie has ever experienced or even could have
imagined. etc
